marylou

Josh, dunno, bunch of years of doing it. It's not a big deal.

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Sorry to add to the thread drift.....but first of all Dead Bird is making come stuff in Asia now. I can't remember what, but you they have to put it on the label, so you can see for yourself. As far as quality differences, it's been my experience that stuff made in China is not necessarily of inferior quality. Matter of fact, the Chinese currently do the best tent sewing overall. I think, at least nowadays, that if you're seeing poor quality stuff from over there, it might have more to do with the company (TNF in Lambone's example) having low QA standards. Far as labor conditions over there.....well, no, they are not what they are here. Not even close. But, to be fair, we have plenty of labor abuse in sweatshops domestically as well. It gets more complicated when you start looking at how any given company treats the workers in their overseas factories. The US companies have a lot of say in how things are done in the factories. Thing is, that information can be very hard to come by, and there's no way to independently verify what they tell you.

I like the concept. There are a lot of different ways to be smart. At one point in my life, I had two ballet dancers for roommates. Strictly speaking, in the way that our world quantifies intelligence, these two were not very bright. But, to see them dance....WOW....freaking geniuses, both of them. I think to intimate that we all learn the same way is about as simplistic as the sort of Microsoft world view on what's smart and what's not. Their corporate culture (in my experience) would have you believe that if you are strong in Computer Science, you are smart, and otherwise, you are not.

ANNABELLE! ARE you back from Everest ALREADY? It's okay hunny, if your hair's greasy, just put an Arc'Teryx hat over the whole meathouse and no one will be the wiser.

Hey, thanks for the compliment, Greg. I believe I started that thread. I have to agree with the others, Snug, great thread idea. Got to put my thinkin' cap on and come up with a few nominees. Then hopefully we gedda vote!

Yeah, what the fat kid said. Sell it here, or sell it on EBay.

Just finished reading the journal. Never will have that fifteen minutes back, now will I?

Or the Dex and Hayes?

Snowmobiling in Wilderness..hey when the heck they start allowing THAT? I hope that dumbass has to spend a lot of money looking for his missing sled.

Not even if I had a big huge nap already?

I haven't seen 2 am in an awful long time.

The Easter Bunny requests your presence in the chatter. That is, if you like to chat.

On April 1, I had 2 screws pulled out of a bone in my ankle. Went fine, just 20 minutes on the operating table, and I was walking and off the pain pills in a few days. Now it's been about 10 days. I'm back to work on light duty and healing up just fine. Thing is, I'm dead freakin' tired all the time. I *know* it has to heal and all that, and I'm doing the proper ice/elevation/recovery stuff, wondering if anyone out there has had a similar experience/procedure, and how long this super fatigue thing persists. Argh! I'm so TIRED!

Anyone else get stuck home this weekend?

Well stated Mark, though I think HK was Secretary of State rather than NSA. Think China for a second... I can totally see him giving the whole "I don't recall" dog-and-pony-show. Isn't Shrub on vacation like 50% of the time? Or did we make being Presdident a part-time job? If it's only part-time now, can we get one of our guys in there the rest of the time, kind of like a "job sharing" sort of thing?

Another really shitty day in the news.....

maybe we have a mega lazy-ass liar who stole the presidency in office...

Well, in the ART world, we use a lot of paint that has what Will calls "heavy metals" as part of the pigment composition....and that shit's bad for you. I don't much care what we call it, so long as we agree on what it is. Which apparently we have. Or you can just drink your partner's pee, if either you or your partner is, well, thick.

Peanut Butter Chatty Time!

I think I'll build a sand castle out of styrofoam and then cover it with cheesecloth soaked in white glue for some little nugget of jingoistic Musical Theatre.

Hey, thanks a lot for the helpful information. Common sense, yes, but good info nonetheless.

Hey, Mike looked awesome in a little 5 minute thing last night on Evening Magazine about climbing ranger rescue training. Good ambassador for climbing!