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Anyone who so much as thinks about changing their furnace filters prior to Nov 1 hates America.

So did Ivan, apparently.

What doesn't to you?

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvTDi59y91E

The article cites three reasons: wildfire management, grazing, and climate induced heat stress and the resultant susceptibility to parasites/pathogens, as reasons for the decline, most particularly the latter for the most recent, sudden die off... ...two more ideas than you can apparently hold in your head at one time.

Didn't go to college 'n I know why cuz I got high cuz I got high cuz I got hi-igh

This is my manifesto. I've been baking a lot more lately. Slow Saturday....

I didn't get a card; he doesn't get a card.

Clearly, the end of religion.

They'll fuck anything.

Expressiveness does not equate to ego, as the original poster would suggest. I can personally attest that if you climb with Ivan, you're in for an experience you probably won't soon forget. Be ever mindful, however, that you're tied in to what is basically a living, breathing, singing Mack truck.

That's absolutely true. Toenailed rafters, 1/4 gaps under the kitchen door...I've seen it (though not in my house, fortunately). The raw materials, with a few notable exceptions (asbestos, anyone? With a side of lead paint?), were far superior, though.

Got could beat up Mighty Mouse even before he was invented.

It's a lawless theoverse out there.

this would be tracking right w/ the whole "me being made in His image" thang If religion had sold a more realistic incompetent God, I might have hung on to my faith a bit longer. Like, a couple of more weeks, maybe. Fuck that fairyland shite. Good riddance.

that's the dummist artical I ever red.

I've never understood the whole "how did God allow this to happen?" line. God, if he exists, is simply a fuck up, and he probably doesn't give a shit, either...in perfect harmony with the rest of the universe.

Generally, the superior quality of older homes is due to superior construction practices, not a difference in materials. Let's see, what materials do my 1911 Craftsman and a modern home have in common? That would be none. Sounds like we got ourselves a tender fingered office worker who's never pounded a nail here, boys.

OR Altis. They're amazing.

Given that it's straightforward to upgrade an old home with energy efficient windows, insulation, and appliance, and that old homes last 3 to 5 times longer than new ones due to vastly superior materials (as any builder will tell you), I'd say that would not be a very good idea. Then there's history, asthetics. destruction of topsoil, gardens, trees. Ah, the things that cannot be readily quantified, which is most things that really matter.

They're all on my art glass table LULZ

Just finished 6 art lamps for STeamcon. Yeah, they're fucking cool.

Oops. We're tied again. You'll be reading about my walk around Greenlake tomorrow...let's see, is Phinney Ridge considered part of the North Cascades?

Ivan and I write trip reports because it pleases us. The rest of you simply may as well not exist.

Another lying libtard. He probably doesn't give a shit about anyone else now that Black Barry's in The Building. If I were you I'd go out and buy a bunch of shit on credit and maybe steal something.