ashw_justin

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I've been wondering the same thing...

Well pretty soon we'll just have a computer do it all... ...and it will run on Windows

bin stayin in my car... anacortes city park (west-something) for the past two nights. dunno about 2nite. Murray? never heard of him. I work for some pukes in NYC. So YOU'RE that wierd-looking guy who's been sitting at Starbucks using the wireless internet all day...

Put that to a double-kick drum line with the geetar amps on "11" and get ready to ROCK

f$#k all you sons a bitches I'm gonna bust up your faces and give you all curbies cuz the stupid world won't let me have what I want!!

[church lady] Ooooh aren't we all sooooo tough around here!! [/church lady] suck it up crybabies. Shut up and enjoy yer damn music already.

I got me a flexible schedule. Sent you a PM.

Hey if you want to go back, get some skis, and I'll go!! That snow looks AWESOME!! And I've been wanting to climb North Ridge for a while. ps. crying means you care. But probably not a good thing to do in dangerous territory...

Yes, predictions can be made in regard to human behavior based upon data analysis. To call this science is however quite hopeful and arrogant, as you can never develop adequate controls for experiments involving the enigmatic and often irrational and unpredictable human mind. Not to mention that most "theories" involving human behavior can neither be proven nor disproven due to lack of a concrete basis, outside of conjecture and (hopefully) some experimental data. Which one you believe depends upon your particular interests. Don't get me wrong, I have faith in the value of data analysis and prediction, by I would be embarassed to go as far as calling it "science." But hey, it sure makes a lot more logical sense than religion, which was all we had before that for explaining our behavior... It would be ridiculous to doubt the functionality of economics--that I am not arguing. Hey, you know you're making me want to go watch "Pi" again...

Ashw is saying it's OK to do sick stuff to people (like beat on them) if they want you to do it to them... but with that logic, then it's OK to kill and cannabalize people if they want you to... Clearly, it's not OK to eat people, even if they want you to eat them... Looking for someone other than lummox or trask to argue this point. hmmm... wasn't expecting that kind of response I'm not even gonna argue this one, so I guess you got me there

I can see Doolittle is feeling the retaliation for all of the "discuss..." threads we've been seeing lately Hardcore is Hardcore, some of those kids are F$%#ed up big time but don't blame it on how "hard" their lives are... sure, a lot of pissed of youth can say it's because their lives are fucked over but the majority of 'em have no idea what it is to have a bad life. Living in a first-world country pretty much counts you out for having a fucked up life, which is not to say that people don't go through some messed up shit here, but that there is always a way out besides spilling your brains or just fucking shit up for no reason. You don't have to have a messed up life to get in to hardcore, that's not what it's about. It strikes something primal in the heart of every young human male (and a some of the tougher females). It doesn't take some deep-seated angst to bust somebody up at a hardcore show. It's about mob mentality and we are a mob-craving species in general. Where else is it okay to just crack a bunch of people in the face without any foreplay or post-climactic cuddling? A good clean ass-busting orgy, that's what it is. And it's okay because everyone's doin it and they're all there by choice. The intensity of a hardcore show is a unique contrast to the numbness of everyday life (something we can appreciate as climbers). I can understand, you get so sick of feeling numb and subdued all the damn time a little pain and berserking is just what you need. Especially if you have some problems in your life and you need some release. Some of us have the opportunity to get it up in the hills, others do it in a condemned warehouse down by the river. Some of us do both. (doolittle?)

Well that's when you're supposed to go show off your idealness as a mate by climbing something really hard or lifting a lot of weight. Or you could give 'em the old "I am too in touch with my zen climbing to pay attention to you," some women can't resist that! Especially if they are getting drooled on by everyone else

Actually the funniest thing about that LA Times story is that they failed to mention that particular stretch of whitewater, the "Teacups," ends in two deadly class VI/unrunnable waterfalls that follow in quick succession after the runnable ones. That guy that broke his arms actually did so by forgetting how many of the "Teacups" he had run and going over the first of those two class VI waterfalls. The tragedy is but the irony is

by me (just in case someone thinks otherwise due to the length) The dynamic and unrelenting nature of whitewater sets it apart from the relatively static environment one encounters while climbing or mountaineering, and because of this, the psychology of paddling is necessarily different. The rock, snow, and ice generally stay put and let you do your bidding. At just about any moment you can pause to think things through one more time, run through risk assesment, examine your gear, your position, your next course of action. You can take a breather, shake out your arms. You can stop and talk things over with your partner. You can look at the guidebook again. You can just call it quits and turn around. At the most desireable levels of whitewater these opportunities are few and far between. You are dealing with an immense and constant energy that is massive and unstoppable, yet usually forgiving enough to let you borrow some and dance along with it. And you know that no matter what you do, the water will never stop. Standing above a rapid, you realize this. You realize that you have only a finite amount of time to do what you need to do to get yourself down to the next safe zone. You realize that the more time you spend in this particular wild and powerful stretch of mayhem, the more chance that you will get yourself in trouble, or tire out, or lose all of your momentum and control, becoming a brightly-colored plastic bath-tub toy completely resigned to the will of the water. The kind of things that we kayak these days, you spend more time looking at the rapid than actually kayaking through it. And the amount of time we would spend looking at a rapid was about 30 seconds. I look down into the maw of a class V rapid, graded so because it threatens the ultimate consequence should I lose control, and try to fit all of my thoughts, strategies, back-up plans, and fears into about 5-10 seconds worth of actual paddling. But it doesn't all fit. For those 5-10 seconds there are really only a few things I need to know. There's not going to be time for anything else. Those few things are 1) where am I going, 2) where do I REALLY NOT want to go, and 3) where is my next safe spot? Back in the boat, slide into the water... 2 seconds... take a breath and clear my mind... 3 seconds... paddle up to the rapid, go where I have to go, do my best to stay on line, for god's sake don't flip over, remember to breathe, paddle HARD, keep the boat straight, avoid the killer spots, maybe let out a primal scream, and finally guide my boat into the next safe spot... 10 seconds. I made it. I faced off with chaos and oblivion and it only took 10 seconds. I danced with enough energy to destroy me 1,000,000 times over and it turned out okay. And it was fun. So yes, paddling this kind of whitewater does require an altered psychological state. On the drive up to the put-in you are full of adrenaline because you know that once you are on this river, you will be faced with danger, with very few, if any, oppurtunities to walk away. You know that you will not have time to make sure you are 100% safe, and you will not have time to think about all of the possibilities. If you weren't willing to accept this then wouldn't be driving up to the river right now. You wouldn't get into your kayak in the first place. But you know what you are getting yourself into, and what you will have to do mentally to make it through. It is an ordeal that is exquisitely enjoyable when you are willing to commit yourself to this very necessary reductive mindstate. It has been a long time since I have tossed myself down a river. But now I often find myself moving into the same mindset while climbing or snowboarding. It is good to realize that there are many things that we cannot control, and it is good to appreciate the value of moving quickly and fluidly. The same psychology applies to running out trad climbs at instead of trying to put in extra gear, where you know that if you keep moving steadily you will be at a strong stance and a bomber placement, while if you stop to force a crappy piece into a bad placement you will be no better off, just more pumped and in more danger as a result. Anyway, it's funny that journalists and guys in lab coats think they can understand the pyschology of a whitewater kayaker without ever experiencing the actual feelings themselves. Of course that would "bias their research." But I don't consider cognitive psychology to be real science anyway. edited to change "direable" to "desireable"

Sure she's hot, but is she REPUBLICAN?

I can't beleive I just looked at that site... haha I think I'm going to throw up

I have this trick where I balance my dig on my ghetto ski pole and set it on a 10-second capture delay, that way I can take longer exposures because my hands don't shake the camera. Or maybe I don't understand what you mean by making the lens slow(?) I would go with the natural color, and try using a pol filter, and a narrow aperture with a long exposure. Hey where's skykilo his photos always come out good! That's kind of what I did in this photo, except the tripod was a rock. Course it came out a little dark though.

I have this trick where I balance my dig on my ghetto ski pole and set it on a 10-second capture delay, that way I can take longer exposures because my hands don't shake the camera. Or maybe I don't understand what you mean by making the lens slow(?) I would go with the natural color, and try using a pol filter, and a narrow aperture with a long exposure. Hey where's skykilo his photos always come out good!

Oh and down with the monopolistic conservative media empire that feeds "truth" to the masses like some hypnotic-laced high-fructose corn syrup feeding-tube-delivered snowball. You may now return to your regularly scheduled brainwashing.

And that little ninny puppet who's warming his chair too. (No need to thank me for this wonderfully insightful and astoundingly intelligent political commentary)

She votes? Oh dear god.

Thanks Will, I've been slacking lately in keeping this thread at least tangentially on topic. I see you found the same website I did Great website, haha what a bunch of oinkers! Hey how did you skip by this one? "Condi" Rice, the token African-American "babe" on the republican hot babes page. See how inclusive repub pervs can be?

Oh duh, that's Baker! Where's all the fluffy white stuff

...but I can't give you any Paul