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fscking? As in you had a disk outage? I thought most journaling file systems don't require that anymore...

No, it's not just you. The admins say they are on it. Hopefully fixing it today.

Booze and breasts, combined!

The Obama citizenship story has been making the rounds for a while now... here's what appears to be the latest and greatest: Newsweek article I would expect that these sorts of issues have been vetted very carefully long ago and anyone still raising a stink about this has no legitimate beef.

No need to apologize, Jon. Like Sherri, I was simply wondering out loud if I was "special" in yet another way, or if everyone was seeing it... I had expected someone else to qvetch before I did.

And when I telnet to the port directly:bohun[MemRec2]% telnet cascadeclimbers.com 80Trying 208.113.217.224...Connected to cascadeclimbers.com.Escape character is '^]'.GET / HTTP/1.0HTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:16:44 GMTServer: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 DAV/1.0.3 mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.4.8 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7eLast-Modified: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:09:13 GMTETag: "30197-153-42a4e5a9"Accept-Ranges: bytesContent-Length: 339Connection: closeContent-Type: text/htmlSite Temporarily Unavailable Site Temporarily UnavailableWe apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/tech support immediately to have them rectify this.error id: "bad_httpd_conf"

Is it just me or is cc.com really slow today? Pages take 10+ seconds to load instead of the usual ~1 second. Also, the Mountain Pr0n is stuck on CBS's picture of the Blueberry Hill Rap Route...

I think there's several things to consider in deciding between the mountaineers/boealps/wac and a guide service. The mounties get a bad rap on this website for some reason, so I'd discount anything too vitriolic or ridiculing their course to an extreme. 1) If you're raring to go and short on time, a guide service will get you up and running quickly. The basic climbing courses offered by the mountaineers or other orgs are over for the year and you'd have to wait until next spring to start. You wouldn't "graduate" until the end of next summer, most likely. 2) The mountaineers and their ilk will teach you this stuff for probably a fifth to a tenth of the cost of a guide service. The basic class costs $300. If money's tight and time is not of the essence, it might be worth considering. Their subsequent modules are priced very favorably as well. 3) The mountaineers get criticized for teaching "the one true way". There is rarely such a thing in climbing, but it is a necessity of the way the course is structured. If you know things coming into the course, you may be frustrated to be told your skills are no good and to shelve them while you're taking the class. My experience has been that a lot of instructors will understand where you're coming from and it really isn't that onerous. Conversely, if you don't know jack, don't assume that what you've been taught is "the one true way". Some people finish the basic class and read FotH and think they know everything... 4) You're likely to meet a lot more people taking the courses through boealps or the mounties. I've met great partners this way. If you're short on friends that climb... 5) The mountaineers have a rigid course progression... so you can't go and take the trad climbing course without first learning the basics of glacier travel. Their aim is to make you well-rounded, but if all you want to do is crag at Leavenworth, then you'll be wondering why you have to do this. 6) The mountaineers are a very variable experience. My own has been with the Everett branch, which has a very high instructor to student ratio, so you get lots of individual attention. As a result of that there's less of "the one true way" than I've heard about from other branches. If you sign up with the mounties, do your research and pick a branch that suits your style, not just your commute. 7) Never discount the advice that Rad gave you -- if you offer to be a belay slave, there are very good people on this site that will help you out.

I don't think he blames McCain. He points out that everything that McCain endured in Vietnam by no means makes him a standout among the POWs. He doesn't go about it in the best way -- pointing out that he did more time, got more medals, etc. makes him come across as childish, but it doesn't detract from the fundamental validity of his statement -- being a former POW is not a necessary (or even desired?) qualification for being president.

Yep, denalidave is correct. Political campaigns are not bound to honor the do not call registry. Their freedom of speech trumps your leave-me-the-fuck-alone, I guess.

That summit feed looks pretty tasty

No, you don't have to admire their honesty. This sort of fucked-up apologetic reasoning is the same as saying you have to admire a thug for being upfront about wanting to cap you...

My eyes, my eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!

Well, if they say this is like the marijuana growing operations on the west slope of the Sierra, then there were certainly guns aplenty. In raids on farms in Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks they've confiscated weapons up to an M-16.

Link is busted. Repost please

OK, time to take the remaining two beers home and fire up the grill. I'm off like a prom dress...

Please tell me you are having Anderson Cooper steaks for dinner More like Hilary Clinton... the flak jacket she wore in Bosnia, specifically

WTF??? Is it so tough you had to shoot it to tenderize it? Yes, it's made from flak jackets... hence the toughness...

Back at work, beer in hand, browsing spray Heading home soon... there's a bottle of Owen Roe Cab Franc and a spice-rubbed flank steak waiting

I started drinking at lunch today Extra dry sake with some excellent sushi. Haven't stopped since

now what the fuck was russia doing in cuba in the first place? second- how many times did poland attack russia? Zero!. now show of hands, how many times did russia attack poland? well, looking at history books they occupied our country for over 200 years and attacked poland 2 times in 20th century (1919 and 1939). now who is an aggressor? Bob, the Soviets were in Cuba because the US was in Turkey. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the public side of things -- the Soviets withdrew their missiles. In exchange, the US quietly dismantled their infrastructure in Turkey. That part doesn't get so much press. Scott mentioned that in his post already. As for when the last time was that we attacked Russia... just as a historical curiosity... Hmmm, if you count Poles fighting on the side of Napoleon it was 1811 or thereabouts. Otherwise, I think you might need to go back all the way to 1607-1608, when Poland occupied Moscow and placed a puppet on the throne...

Go look up Eric the Eel on wikipedia...

Yes, but at the end of it all you're still drinking cheap vodka, which, as with any other imbibing, is just a crime against nature...

How'dja know? Cuz I'm married with kids, too? Nah, just basing this on where you live and the occasional hints that you're sitting around with a glass of cab. There's some good Syrah in this state (Spring Valley, McCrea, DeLille, Isenhower to name a few), but the Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are uniformly disappointing. They all taste about the same and cost too much. McCrea is probably my favorite. They make some excellent reds from varietals most people haven't heard of. Their Mourvedre and Counoise are both very tasty, as is their Viognier.

Hey, he improved his personal best to 57 seconds in time for the next Olympics... just couldn't go 'cause of a visa snafu.