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"For those situations when less is more, try on our barely there technical underwear." I dunno. I like the psuedo copy better than the real stuff. Wifey and i actually agreed to order a pair last night...

DRUNK BEFORE NOON! For the NEXT MONTH!

And did you know that T&T has less than 2 million people? Terry saved the game for England. Amazing, amazing save. Go T&T! So who's going to win? I'd bet on Germany, even though those damn czechs look pretty good.

we're talking about a country where they name girls tequila...

Go T&T!

How about a sticky for this? There seems to be somebody asking for beta on the route with their second or third post every other week...I'm sure those who are answering today will get more annoyed with each request for the same information.

Here's another thread on how to mod triggers...

old discontinued MEC synthetic parka that was orange. frigging awesome! totally tubular! the best ever! (have i been on telemarktwts.com?...hmmm...)

Did you see the pic of Kelly's xray? Its on the front page of gunks.com down a little bit...apparently, it was like that on great trango. BTW, he was two time NCAA feather or welter weight boxing champ. He has no pain receptors. Glad to hear the recovery is going well...

Finland wins eurovision. and the bbc interviews the driver of the guy they planned to interview.

As much as I agree, I would also add the as yet unmentioned: move to yosemite in the next two weeks, stay there till it snows and do five to ten walls. Then, if you have to ask what step Two in becoming a badass is, well, you never will.

I've just picked up a pair of the discontinued sportiva's from Mgear's clearance sale. My general philosophy is to buy the cheapest pair I can and wear them for the season that it takes to wear them out... sucks to be a throw away consumer but except for those blue scarpas that were discontinued six years ago, i've never had a pair last more than one season.

talk to the guys at pipestone too... But there are plenty of people walking around in the missions...

Actually, I have to confess that everytime I send an excel or access file across the planet, and they run the thing on their $400 computer as well as I can on mine, I'm like, wow, MS really has some pretty awesome business applications. Of course, my point of comparison is my commodore 64.

In my experience of flying to and from Turkey every two weeks for three years or so, I believe the crucial part of your question is the phrase "American Airlines". Flying internationally on AA sucks enormous donkey dingus. If your bag weighs 500g over the 30kg allowance, prepare to pay the $90. If you want a beverage that contains alcohol, pony up $6. As for your stove, if you can pressure clean it with compressed air, you have a much better chance of getting it through the TSA security. Coming back shouldn't be too much of a problem, but getting the stove out of the country is significantly more difficult. You can generally politely argue the case and succeed, but not always...I've won three times and lost once before I just bought a set of gear for here and for there. BTW, it's only illegal to have your own bottle of booze in US airspace. AFAIK, in Europe its perfectly legal.

The ortleibs are actually waterproof. They carry really well for most loads too, mostly because messenger bags --please trust me on this one, i know WAY too much about this-- were designed for irregular odd sized packages, and adapted to normal sizes by the users, not because of some benefit to most riders. You can always add to the ort's padding with a piece of eva or two... of course, i do know somebody who makes padded shoulderbags, but they aren't waterproof.

They can't weigh more than 250 combined. They're tiny. If you rolled over on them in bed after the threesome, only their mutant power fingers could possibly save their lives...

I've never done more than 2 days in a row of 10+ hour climbing. But it's my fingers that go first...I'm not climbing crack on those long days. Yet, if you think my experience might translate, the shoes I found the most love from were actually big anazazi lace ups or velcros. I would wear soft slippers training, and then switch to the comparatively more rigid velcros or laceups for the big days. Somehow though, I think my experience is not exactly what you're looking for.

Hmm. I've found some strong initial interest with large institutions for supplying them with task lamps for entire offices. I think I'll be moving forward with it in about six months, but basically, I pay part of the initial costs, and they split the cost savings with me over five years with buyout optionality.

Uh, I'm not sure where you got this tidbit, but I'm willing to say its totally wrong. Dyneema is a chemical invented (and patented) by DSM. They licensed the polymer but not the manufacturing process to Honeywell. Honeywell has a license to sell Dyneema as "spectra" inside of the USA. Under great demand from the government in 2001, DSM built a huge plant in NC to make Dyneema in the USA because Honeywell's production process was not and is not as efficient as the gel spinning done by DSM. I buy Dyneema, not a lot, but enough to have had several conversations with DSM about the stuff. And the people who I know who make kites and parachutes agree with me in that it has nothing to do with the material, abrasion resistance has to do with the size of the drawn fiber...both DSM and Honeywell make a large number of stock sizes now.

plaquette magique.

Oh for sure the installation costs are higher, but depending on your electricity bill you can recoup those investments within two years, and many of the packages i've been playing with (the next business project perhaps) have 4-5 year life spans under normal use. (nichia, luxeon and osram 1 watt and bigger packages.) How dirty is the manufacturing really?

I think you're wrong parislover, I think the ROI is certainly there for office lighting over halogen and other types of task lamps. A 60 amp transformer versus a 6 amp transformer for the same amount of light? Not for all applications, but certainly for some...and the manufacturing? yummy. couldn't agree more.

There's something about watching those worms squirm that just gets to me. Maybe cause I've had them and it sucks? hmm... Now, a goatse with worms coming out of the tuckus, now, that'd be something gross!