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Joe has a great memory. Ask him what their names were and post them. How about instead of the money, get them to do tic tocs for ten hours straight?

The car my fiance and I are giving ourselves when we get married.

damn, somebody stole my copy and i've been trying to find one since the late 1990s.

yeah, but oly, do you have that album? best one spacemen3 made!

You don't have dreamweapon, an evening of contemporary sitar music, do you?

Any lit on wobble boards? I live with one of the worst ankles in the USA--you can check out the photo here. Not an allograft candidate right now, the joints are too screwed up, but we're hoping that she can do an external radial fixator to regrow the ankle. MaryLou you should try Symtech liquid gluc/chon/msm. It works far better for my fiance than anything else ever has. Also, a good medical supply company should have a blue kind of ankle brace that's not neoprene. I'll see if i can find out the name.

oh, they sent me the X-Ray or whatever it was with the thing...the impact just mussed the epoxy!

i feel 35 feet or so and grounded on my carbon fibre HB El Cap helmet. I walked away, sent the helmet in and they were like "eh, cosmetic blemish, no problem."

I've been looking at a some studies done over in Italy in the last year or so that present some interesting perspectives on this. I'll see if i can find them when I get home. Basically, it appears that the standard idea of how dynamic forces are generated in a climbing system is not too good. Have you seen the 14 bazillion pieces of gear in 21 feet paper? As i recall, that paper basically posits that you need a piece of gear every half: ie: place gear at 1', 3', 6', 12',24'. But that's insane at first glance. Then again, the same paper says that if you do that you can run it out the last 60' of a 200' pitch. The italians have been working on the effects of friction on the system through both rock rubbing and through inefficient and efficient rope systems. Their work seems more grounded in reality than the other and they've been doing some interesting empirical tests with load meters and different length slings. of course, ymmv, and she gathers herself after falling. She leads the pitch and you guys get down okay after that. That's when the problems start. Taking the advice of cc.com, you plant one on her before you remember she plays winger for wazzu's rugby team. She slaps you down and then reports you to your fiance. I wish i had my bookmarks...argh.

bomber bindings rule. I've been really impressed by the ones i've used and they really hold up.

I think it's AT all the way...

I think priors are the best of the bunch. But i am staying with my old ascent skis and my real deck. Can I recommend switching bindings to bomber's trench diggers? They'll take your mountaineering boots and make the deck much more responsive.

the route was put up by a team with wolfgang gullich on it. oli lived in my apartment in new york when he was homeless in america after running away from band camp.

hey jay, i'm not trying to pick on your posts, it's just happening that way! um no. no. and no. That's crap. The government in no way shape or form makes money on smokers. my fiance works at a health policy think tank. They do about half of the health policy analysis and planning that happens in this country. The only group more costly on a short or long term basis than smokers is early onset diabetics with other comorbities related to being fat. i think that all the policy wonks and their ilk that actually develop rates for health care companies wish they could either segregate fat people out of groups or charge fat people more.

Which is precisely why most muslims in Europe moved there! Having their immigrant goals of transcending bigotry and zealotry thrown back in their faces by zenophobic danish bigots who refuse to acknowledge any of their positive contributions to danish society pisses off and alienates the would-be assimilators off. Nobody deserves congratulations for doing a normal job well, but everybody appreciates it. From what i hear, the islamic immigrants to northern europe would at least like to be thanked for providing doner as an alternative to sausages for street food rather than be constantly discriminated against and treated as subhuman by other citizens or area residents. On a side note, i've never seen more bigotry and racial hatred than between east germans and turkish germans. Its really crazy and frankly kind of scary. Personally, I think the dossier of the Danish Imams is baroque, bizarre and mostly very wrong. It's also really really weird. Read it, you'll see what I mean when I say it seems to have been written by a bipolar nutjob who wanted to catastrophically destroy the reputation of anybody who read it and took it seriously. It's worse than the protocols of zion. I think that your views on Iran are very rosy colored glasses.

A few points from skimming this thread. I have to say that this is partially what i've read in papers here, in translation of the leading german papers, and in turkish media. I've also spoken with my workers and my friends. Oh and by the way, having visited Iran and speaking decent persian and fluent turkish, it's not that america friendly. My experience is that's what upper class rich people think, not the vast majority of the country who pretty much don't like the USA very much. The reason that danish muslims and muslims across scandanavia found the cartoons as published very insulting was that the scandal started because a danish children's book writer wanted an illustrator and claimed he couldn't find one. From what i've heard, the book was published right around the time that original page was published in J-P. After that auspicious beginning, they found problems with the way muslims were referenced in all of the cartoons but one. Those drawings struck the the muslim population as marginalizing and stereotyping a group that's actually tried very hard to integrate into danish society. That the paper then refused to meet with the state council of religious leaders pissed them off more. Denmark's largest dairy pulled all of their advertising from the paper at that time, saying that they thought that this was a breach of the publisher's civic responsibility. People compared the drawings of burnt out suicide bombers and all that to watermelon seed spitting black americans. I can't really argue. According to my friends who lived in Copenhagen for the past two years, J-P is a tabloid catering to right wing voters. The wikipedia articles are an excellent reference, but the translation of that strange pencil drawing is not what I heard it means. According to my above referenced friends, the translation of the weird pencil drawing is more like "Prophet? You asshole, keeping women as slaves." here are some links I found interesting: wiki article about the drawings. wiki article about the danish iman's inflammatory dossier.

I'm not touching that with a hundred inch pole. It's funny, Distal has not mentioned once that he will use the pack for climbing. Instead he's said things that I'd try to transliterate like: argaliye kamaraliya mekonaniyam. whatever that means.

Did they publish all of them or just the four I saw when I loaded their website?

It turns out that the ground pad in question is not kelly's, it's josh wharton's. It had one side that was aluminized. Kelly said he didn't know if it really helped or not, but they figured why not. He also doesn't know where Josh got it. I'll go ask the manufacturer that I get my evazote from...

I don't like Bauer or Sen...years working in developing economies suggest to me that the world has significantly changed since 'from subsistence...' was written. Freakonomics is tolerable. Post Cowboy Economics is fantastic. (disclosure: written by my econ prof, i helped on early versions of one chapter...) The White Rock, An Exploration of the Inca Heartland was pretty good.

i'll ask him what he was thinking with that...

40secs. its non random. it repeast every so often and then you just have to remember the geometry. down right corner, up right, up left, down right pause. up right, down right, down middle, pause...

I've been told that it's going to take us a year and a half to achieve ISO 9001 out at my factory in Turkey. So, 'working on implementing' could just be that they've got the process book together, but they haven't had it running for that time yet...

35 pound barbell thrusters / pullups alternating rather than just pullups. So min1 was thrusters for me, min2 was pullups... we're crazy but we still like working antagonist muscle groups. I don't think i'd like to do burpee/pullups. no. apparently we're gonna do pukey brewster on saturday. i'm already working on my sick note.

we did thrusters / pullups instead of just pullups. i fell off the bar at 12 minutes.