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FWIW, and that migh tnot be much, but my observation about climbers these days is that most consider gym climbing to be 'climbing', and that those that don't and actually venture outside will never be found more than 1/4 to 1/2 mile away from the nearest paved highway. If you don't fall into either of these camps, you are already in the minority. But then, I may be talking out of my ass just to see who has an aneurysm about it first.

I do believe that Caldwell's climbing exploits are a clever ruse to hide the fact that he's an advance scout from and alien race. While we're busying going 'oooooohlookitdat!', he's making topo maps for landing zones, scouting locations for cliff-top rotating restaurants, and impregnating our women!

REI sells the MH EV2. I just used my 20% discount and my dividend to get one. Probably the last thing I get from them (REI, not MH).

Wonder how long until they charge you a 'membership fee' every year a la Costco?

True, yes, but how do you get around the minimum pricing restrictions of, say, BD? I'm obviously not someone close to 'the biz'. My guess is you'd have to first prove that you can move enough gear before they'd be willing to lower their pricing scheme for you and that would probably cause all of their other retailers to have screaming fits. Would you then be limited to selling weird gear from Andorra or some such place?

So the question is, is the initial REI cooperative plan still a viable model? How is it modifiable to account for the current pricing schemes of gear companies? Would the effort be worth the return or would you end up getting only 5% discounts anyway?

Why is it that serial killers, rampaging maniacs, Middle East despots, and postal workers never think to turn off the radio?

wheat thins POTD

I'm all for alternative energy, I'm just saying they ought to consider that maybe they might get bang for the buck in other ways. It's all fine and dandy to keep researching the idea, I'd just hate to see them waste several hundred million dollars developing a poo-refining plant only to watch tons of poo go in and a trickle of gas come out. This also raises another question: what happens to the tons of poo that goes in? What are the by products of the process? Is it all CO2 and methane and what about the solids? What do you do with that? You have to ask these kinds of things.

Our black helicopters can reach you too, you know.

what? you think Dru knows everything he talks about?

not all things have the same possible factors of improvement that electronics have shown, so that's kind of a poor example. you could turn poo into diamonds if you wanted to probably but what would be the point? just like being able to extract vanilla from poo.....

Cost effective? Significant impact? 515000+ tons of poo is about 1.65 million gallons of gasoline per year. or 4520 gallons per day. Which I think is about half of a tanker truck per day.... This does not take into account the cost of using gas to transport gas-making poo nor the cost of 'unspecified catalysts'.

Not, 'hard to do better' but 'waiting to see how the DNC manages to blow it again'.

The supreme court already ruled that it isn't (and they did it while Clinton was in office)

I don't think it was an admission. I think it was a brain fart. Unless he's changed his tune, I think he meant it the other way around and got a little carried away in his Clinton-hating reverie.

Even Buckley says we've lost Iraq. I guess no more 'horses doovers' at the White House for him.

It looked like Feathered Friends was going to have Nuptse's on sale ($100 off) on March 10. At least, that's the way I interpreted the tag beneath the boot on display.

Who owns REI?

I'd worry more about what happens with the mid-term elections. If Congress remains in the neo-con's hands, it don't look pretty unless the D's become unexpectedly brilliant at finding candidates and having a non-mudslinging message.

Whoopee. I gotta buy $20,000 worth o' crap to get a $200 anything.

Go read these guys or Her. They'll fix you right up with bonafide commie-pinko-hippie-hatin' luv.

there's nothing wrong with the winter olympics that snipers and hungry snow leopards couldn't fix.

John is more famously known for being the only person to have ever been asked to leave the Burning Man festival. His disturbing 'mobile art' pieces describing life in corporate America were derided as 'soul-sucking fun-killers'.

"Ear ache my eye!, I'll give you a butt ache!"