Double_E

gonna have a "Summer Climb-In"?? if so, can mountain bikers come crash on the land?? been meaning to sample some of the sweet sweet singletrack near Stevens I keep haering 'bout... Nason Ridge et.al.

now THERE's a passing to mourn...

I'm very curious to know what the AUSCS legal team sez about this, please keep us posted JK. like I said I don't like church-state cozyness one bit, but this is one type of it that i find totally acceptable... as long as the other student groups get the same amount of funding as the UCMCU (which I'm sure this AUSCS will investigate). so if so, whats the big deal?? all them student groups want to bring people to their cause. I suspect that the reason you only got mail from the UCMCU is that the have more money (from independent funding) than the other groups. I'm sure tho that all the student groups are eligible for them fancy little envelopes the the state logo and all. something tells me you're also kinda annoyed by the "please return immediately" thing on their letter. whatever -- throw it away fer chrissakes! no one's holding a gun to your head. every week I get 5 or 6 offers for credit cards saying "please return immediately". ya know what I do? I toss em. It's really pretty simple.

well I don't like church-state cozyness aanny more than you JK, far from it, but I gotta say .... it sounds like this UCMCU group is a CU student group, right? therefore they get the same priveledges (such as free or discounted mail, emblazoned with the distinguished logos of the State of Colorado) that any other CU student group is gonna get. I'm sure that things like free/discounted mail is also enjoyed by the likes of the CU Climbers Club .... and the CU Chicano Union ... and the CU African Peoples Alliance ... and the CU Goth Club ... and the Chess Club.... the Cat-Lovers Club, the Women of Color Club, the Men of Ponytails Club, the Earth-Firsters, the Earth-Lasters, the Violin Club, the Bubble Tea Club, the.... you get the idea.

I miss working in Pioneer Square.... no Taco Del Mars near my new workplace... overall the food choices in downtown Bellevue suck.

no kidding... the psychotic bannana. that thing never ceased to crack me up

look you moron, they have just as much right to piss on Reagan's name as we Yanks do. any human has a right to piss on any country's head-of-state. something tells my you're the type who loves to piss on the French, since they, in their obstinace and smugness about the Iraq conflict, forgot that we liberated them from two world wars!!! people who say things like that seem to forget that they gave us a big ol' hand during a certain war too... the war that CREATED this great nation of ours. you're right about the Americans not being able to... but that's not cause of Canada's relative geopolitical insignificance; it's cause American schools don't give a shit about teaching geography. I don't agree, however, on the "rest of the world" part; ask 11-year-old schoolkids in Finland or India who the PM of Canada is, and I'd guess that at LEAST 80% of them would be able to tell ya. so I guess you're saying Reagan created NATO?

good LORD.. I had NO IDEA there were so many Republican climbers!! or I guess maybe some of the people with knees a'jerkin and getting bees in their bonnets were simply upset over people having "no respect".. no "class" etc, etc, blah blah freakkin blah. He-LLO... respect is NOT an entitlement; it has to be EARNED. whether it's a president or your next-door-neighbor. c'mon people... it's not like the Reagan-haters (most of em) were making lewd, crude jokes about ol' Ronnie.. they were attacking his politix... what the hell's wrong with that?? And even with the few crude remarks... unless you're a family member or close personal friend of the ol' Gipper (which I highly, highly doubt anyone on this forum is).. whass'tha big DEAL?!? Hell, I certainly feel for his family... I'm sure they miss him a damn lot and I'm sure he was very kind and good to all of them. But whether or not they do, and whether or not he was, that's NOT what counts here. What COUNTS is the stoopid shit he did to our and other countries. OK, in lieu of going into too much detail/verbosity, especially cuz most of it has been covered already .... Bottom line, as I see it: any president who presides over the biggest military buildup in history while at the same time slashing taxes is either... A) incapable of doing simple math B) an asshole who has NO regard for future generations (namely, the debt they'll inherit) C) the antichrist D) two or more of the above. And I'm sorry, I've never been impressed with that old stinky rationalization that his military buildup brought down the USSR. Feh. The USSR would have collapsed eventually under its own inefficiency and corruption. Coupla things I gotta give the man credit for tho: he was intelligent and he was an excellent speaker, neither of which can be said for our current prez ... and also, he played football in college.

nope

~~THURSDAY MORNING RANT~~ how's this for a pet-peeve: people who EXPECT you to have telepathic powers and be able to read their frikkin' MIND about shit, and then get PISSED OFF when you CANT... classically, this has be used as a stereotype of one particular "type" of person, but I'n not gonna "go there" ... elaborate on that... right here & now. anyway, it's bad enuf when this scenario happens with a person you're close to, but when it's your damn boss/supervisor, it's just downright infuriating! (coincidentally, my current supervisor happens to be "that type" of person.) when I first started working here 3 wks ago, I started developing a bit of a crush on said supervisor... but the attraction is ra-pid-ly dwindling...

you just figured that one out? what did you think the button is for? not sure where you come from, but i would say that's normal operation... if you get an automatic walk signal like downtown seattle, then there wouldn't be a button. in Seattle and most other cities and towns (of all sizes) around the US I've been to, the "Push To Walk" button is for one thing and one thing only: to make it so you get the walk sign ...... and the drivers waiting to go the same directin as you get green green light ...... SOONER. in them other places, even if you never push the button it, you still get yer walk sign when the drivers get the green... not so in Bellevue. not sure i'm familiar with this "automatic walk signal" youre referring to which some Seattle intersections have. controlled by motion detectors, are they?

gonna let you in on a little secret here, my good fellow bachelor: Target, Kmart, and your local "dollar store" aren't the only stores that sell shower curtains ya know!! it IS possible to get quality ones that don't tear like that ... or so I hear.

Bellevue crosswalks... just started a new job over there recently, and therefore am reluctantly getting to know the customs of that exotic, faraway land. So check this out: unless you push the damn crosswalk-button when you want to cross the street, you DON'T get the walk signal (at a time when you normally would have in Seattle et.al.)! ...I'm saying, when the cars "going your direction" have a green, and the opposite direction does NOT have the turn arrow, you don't get the walk signal unless you had pushed the button before your direction went green. WTF?!?! (and when that happened to me, this one time, the moron drivers turning right blasted right by me, didn't even think about letting me cross since I didn't have the signal.) --Double_E, who loves his car to death but still believes in pedestrian-fuckin-rights-goddamit!!!

master of puppets, a' pulling yer STRINGGGSSZZZ.... twisting ya mind, SMASSHHHIN' ya DREAMZZ!!! .... blinded by me, you can't see a THINNGG.. juss call my name, cause I'LL HEAR YA SCREAM!!!! weee - ahh - faa - mi -lee!! i got all mah sisters an' me!!

yeah, it'sa delicate balance there... I was disgusted that this moron didn't scold/reprimand his kid at all, but at the same time the other extreme totally sucks even more. I mean yellin at a kid in a public place for having just done something stoopid is one thing, but when you see a parent getting [what semes to be] physically abusive with their kid ... that makes yer blood boil too. have only seen that kinda thing once or twice, and it was never bad enuf to call the cops or DSHS, but boy was I tempted to, or at least tell the parent a thing or two. actually once when I was in Greenwood Mkt I came upon these two fat, surly-looking middle age women, each with a young kid in tow. one was saying to the other "NO, you DON'T have the right to treat your kid 'any which way you please'!!! ... if you keep it up myself or someone you pass by in some store is gonna call the POLICE!!" I hadn't seen what actually happened prior to their argument, but at any rate I was thinking, "Yeahh.. way to go lady. you tell 'er." OH YEAH, another driving pet-peeve... people who can't park their damn stinkin car between two simple white lines!! I mean, it's bad enuf when it's an SUV sprawled out across a "Compact" parking spot.. but then you sometimes see a compact car who's covering the ol' white line. it's like, c'mon people!!

Pet peeves... 1) inefficient phone-customer-service-systems for phone/bank/creditcard/insurance/etc. ....like the ones that make you enter your damn account number and PIN into yer damn phone and then, after you jump thru ALL the hoops and FINALLY get to talk to a frickin HUMAN you have to give said human you're acct number and PIN again!!! WTF? 2) northwest drivers... overall I do like the courtesy of Pac NW drivers; too much is definitely better than too little. but sometimes it can get annoying tho, like the fact that people here merge into their exit-lane like WAAAY before they have to, being determined to not be rude and "snake" as some call it. (snaking is driving ALL they way up to the place where you HAVE to merge, and then zipping into an open spot and pissing off the drivers who've been waiting in the traffic backup forever). I mean snaking sucks, but I'll do it now and then cuz let's face it, when NOBODY snakes you have this traffic backup in the exit-lane that stretches for miles and the other lane is just plain USELESS. (this only applies tho to roadways of 3+ lanes.. if there's only 2 lanes, snaking sucks regardless) 3) people who don't supervise/discipline their kids ... like i was at REI yesterday checking out this bike helmet and this bratty kid comes up outta the blue and says "can i see it, i wanna see it!!" and tries to grab it outta my hands! at first I thot his parents were like no where in sight, but then I hear from 10 feet away daddy say to mommy something like "I think I'm gonna take [junior] to the kids play area .. come here now[junior]" and no scolding at all! ... I felt like smacking th' dipshit dad upside the head!!! ....un-buh-LIEVE-a-ble.

I bought my Subaru so that I could sleep at trailheads. Eat ass and die!!!! Bwahahaha!!!! yeh no shit! whatchoo gotta-gainst Subarus, mang??

Seven New York City bartenders were asked if they could nail a woman's personality based on what she drinks. Though interviewed separately, they concurred on almost all counts. Drink: Beer Personality: Casual, low-maintenance, down to earth. Your Approach: Challenge her to a game of pool. Drink: Blender Drinks Personality: Flaky, whiny, annoying, a pain in the butt. Your Approach: Avoid her, unless you want to be her cabin boy. Drink: Mixed Drinks Personality: Older, more refined, high maintenance, very picky, knows exactly what she wants. Your Approach: You won't have to approach her; if she is interested, she'll send you a drink. Drink: Wine (does not include White Zinfandel, see below) Personality: Conservative and classy, sophisticated yet giggles. Your Approach: Tell her you love to travel and spend quiet evenings with friends. Drink: White Zinfandel Personality: Easy, thinks she is classy and sophisticated, but actually has no clue. Your Approach: Make her feel smarter than she is; this should be an easy target. Drink: Shots Personality: Likes to hang with frat-boy pals and is looking to get totally drunk ... and naked. Your Approach: Easiest hit in the joint. You have been blessed this evening. Nothing to do but wait. However, be careful not to make her mad! Then there is the male addendum. The deal with guys is, as always, very simple and clear cut: Domestic Beer: He's poor and wants to get laid. Imported Beer: He likes good beer and wants to get laid. Wine: He's hoping that the wine thing will give him a sophisticated image to help him get laid. Whiskey: He doesn't give a hoot about anything but getting laid. Tequilla: He is thinking he has a chance with the toothless waitress. White Zinfandel: He's gay (and looking to get laid).

mmmmmmmm... peaches You're the cutest thing That I ever did see I really love your peaches Want to shake your tree Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time Ooo-eee baby, I'll sure show you a good time Cause I'm a picker I'm a grinner I'm a lover And I'm a sinner I play my music in the sun I'm a joker I'm a smoker I'm a midnight toker I get my lovin' on the run

cant go June 5/6 but June 12 or 13 would be cool....

nhhiice!!

forecast for westside's looking shitty; going mtn biking near Cashmere...