JosephH

You sawed-off arrows? Couldn't these be Cn placements of some sort?

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"Place thine protection well, lest the ground rise up to smite thee..." Devils Lake Trial and Error School of Climbing, c1976

Climbing is a matter of a combination of subjective and objective risk. In rock climbing the objective risks are basically rock fall, unexpected loose holds, and sharp edges. Most of the time on rock 95-99% or the risk is subjective and based entirely on the choices you make for yourself. In the mountains, the role of objective risk grows exponentially with weather, snow, and ice conditions playing heavily into your chances of success or failure. You could be the most skilled climber on earth and still get augured in bad conditions or an avalanche. When climbing in the mountains a far higher percentage of the subjective risk is based in judgment of external factors and some of the time it's just unavoidably an act of weighing the odds and gambling.

Not yet...

It's a pretty upside world when Apple has the prospect of the largest market cap. Solid prospects, but the market cap is bubbling way out past the any reality of the underlying value of the company.

And as we speak - the announcement: the Mac appstore is here. Just a matter of time before you'll have to jailbreak your Macbook to do what you want with it. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/01/06/1534233/Mac-OS-X-1066-Introduces-App-Store?from=rss

Have never seen a blue screen on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 and I've been running a bunch of both for a couple of years.

Not easy, not particularly speedy or reliable, nor legal.

Sure it does - pop an OSX in the dvd of a Dell, install and you're set - righty mate.

Component-for-component (apple is still light on the full component list even in this matchup) Price-for-price (apple is way light on components in this matchup) And the day OSX runs on the above Dells is the day Apple stops being on the wrong end of this sledgehammer: Also, Jobs has learned the content side of the business on the boards at Pixar / Disney and the company is turning utterly totalitarian, if not demonic, from that experience. Apple's explicit and implicit future plans for hardware / app / boot all speaking to their board working very, very hard at a strategy of tethering, if not outright chaining, their users to their new data centers (which are not filled with Macs) and partner CDNs. As 'evil empires' go, they're just warming up and are poised to make MS, IBM, and Starbucks look like chumps. Getting too carried away with apple idolatry is sort of like being an early Mao or Stalin fanboy. Great stuff for shareholders, though, so can't complain from that perspective. And now that Apple is on course to surpass Exxon Mobil as the company with the highest market cap in the world there's virtually no telling what Jobs and his board have lurking in the back of their mind to go along with all that mounting cash, but as a group they are big thinkers. It's a long way to 2020, but you can bet they're thinking ahead relative to investing and simpatico interests in the representation of partner company boards. Apple Board of Directors: Bill Campbell / Chairman and former CEO, Intuit Corp. Millard Drexler / Chairman and CEO, J. Crew Albert Gore Jr. / Former Vice President of the United States Andrea Jung / Chairman and CEO, Avon Products Arthur D. Levinson, Ph. D. / Chairman, Genentech (former google director) Ronald D. Sugar, Ph. D. / Former Chairman and CEO, Northrop Grumman Corporation (new, big systems and infrastructure guy)

Short memory or young...

Haven't seen it come in that good in all the years I've been going out there or driving by when I lived in HR.

Of course on a $1999 Macbook you are getting the exact same components as a similarly configured $600 PC - a bit of a heavy Apple tax. And given Steve is now going to move Mac applications to the AppStore and just filed a patent for a cloud-booting Mac I'd say you're about to experience the digital equivalent of Devil's Island (no evil empire there, and of course Steve and Apple care deeply about you and your sense of individuality). Shit, other than that Macs are great. Sent from my iPhone. [ P.S. All computers - regardless of make - suck. But what do I know? I just write software for a living... ]

Well, I'd say set aside 280k to buy a more than adequate house in Eugene, put 40k in the bank, and then take a 40k and a couple of years to climb your face off in style around the world, Then if you still want to live in Eugene when you get back you'll be all set.

There you go, it's a franchise! Plenty of cash to be made ridding the world of fixed draws...

Monday it is, then. Don't think a threesome would be a good idea though, you just stretch out the pain at the belay with each person you add...

I might be able to rearrange my schedule for Monday instead of tomorrow...

Speaking of apparelTech, just scored a cold-weather hoodie of remarkable design and construction for $35 (retail $115) at the Columbia outlet shop in Sellwood. It's called a 'Galaxy Hoodie' and is ridiculously stout with a great neck/hood system. Possibly the clothing deal of the year. One note,though, the arms run a tad short for climbing so I got a large vs the medium I'd normally wear. I'd say run and grab one and tell the ever frugal O-man to make the trip.

I don't know, but it seems like you're kind of doomed from the start if you need a tarp. I think you either have to get all stout and burly (think Baffin Island or Russian capsule assaults on high altitude big walls) or you have to be outfitted solid and move as fast as possible. Hunkered down suffering inch by inch in fierce biting winds, or brunch with Bloody Marys? Hmmmm? Waiter! Pepper vodka please...

Dunno, the forecast looks good for Sunday from what I can see. So long as you have the right setup to wear for cold weather climbing it should be fine so long as the sun is out. Here's a dated post of the setup I use. Not sure what the equivalent outer tights and jacket would be these days, but the rest of it is all still available. Works great for me anyway (though you want shoes loose enough to wear warm socks comfortably for circulation). Edit: This works for free climbing; nothing's really going to keep you warm belaying aid this time of year...

After two months of flu / pnemonia and doing zip besides sitting and sleeping I'm going to try and run [my weak, fat ass] up the Corner or / and YW on Sunday. Anyone interested post up or pm me.

Jenni Lowe and Conrad Anker set up the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation (ALCF) which, among other programs, established the Khumbu Climbing School in Phortse, Nepal to increase the safety margin of Nepali climbers and high altitude workers. They happily accept donations to it at: http://www.active.com/donate/alcf.

Keelung. Last time I was there it was home to prolific counterfeiters and some of the most beautiful women in the world. Tall women with long, jet-black hair and large, steel grey-blue eyes. Can still feel my neck spinning around this way and that to follow them as they'd walk by. Breathtaking.

Post up when a thousand WTC office workers, janitors, security guards, network administrators, painters, drywall guys, and electricians sign a petition. That's because there's no way to effectively rig a floor of a highrise office tower with explosives without a shitload of people knowing about it. Why? Because to be effective you have to mount the charges against the structural members and to do that you'd need to basically gut your average office floor and put it back together without any of the people involved with maintaining and working on that floor on a daily basis knowing about it. You'd have to re-rock it without dust and repaint without smell. You'd have to fuse and power your charges without fucking up any of the existing network / telecom / and power wiring, terminals, devices, and operation - and without your newly installed network of fuses ever being noticed. You'd have to move a large volume of charges, fusing, sheetrock, primer, paint, and tools up to the floor with no one noticing as well as carry down and dispose of a great deal of waste and scrap material. Architects? Architects don't know shit about building and remodeling things - let alone doing it without a single trace. And CIA / DIA? Lots of clever people with great skills, but last I checked sanding drywall wasn't one of them. Hell, what are the odds of someone tearing up a floor in your house to spray paint a red 'X' on every forth exterior 2x4 and putting it all back together perfectly - flaws, nicks, stains and all - without dust, smell, and without you noticing anything? Let me help you out with the answer - zero.