jon

So I am INTJ, what the hell does that mean? What is this crap anyways, part of same conspiracy by my computer to make my life miserable?

Actually that is not true. Before you needed third party software for that but now it is standard in OS X. It works quite well. I can access all documents on a Win2k Active Directory Domain just like a PC could, ironically with less configuration then setting up an XP box. That is a small problem, with one solution being using FileMaker Pro across your network or running it on the Macs with ODBC. I actually have to hand it to M$ for delivering a better Office suite to the Mac then the PC.

Loren, my friend, get some help. I think the iBook would be a good choice. I've got a G4 Tibook as well and they are a little expensive but well worth it.. Granted I could probably do almost everything I do on it as I would a PC, but here's the catch. I've been working in a heterogenous network environment for about 4 years now with Win9x, WinNT, Win2k, Solaris, Red Hat, MacOS9, and MacOSX, all networked with webservers running and expensive instruments connected sharing data. I'm not a network or computer administrator, I'm a scientist, which means I want to spend the least amount of time as possible fucking around conflicting IRQ and missing DLLs and the most time doing my work. This is even more so at home, I want to be able to connect to the internet, upload pictures or video, not spending an hour trying to find some stupid driver from a company that no longer exists or stopped supporting a product they just released. PCs have their place, you can build one really cheaply if you know what you doing, they are generally better for gaming and certain, specific business tasks. Unfortunately there is this common misconception that you cannot exists in the business world with a Mac. It is simply not true (sorry Loren). In fact the networking on a Mac is so good now you can network it quicker and easier to a windows machine then trying to get two windows machines to talk to each other. I can take my Mac, plug it into a network anywhere without having to touch a thing, and have automatic access to the network and the internet. I go to a friends house, I pull their plug for their DSL and put it into my Tibook and just open the browser, it is that easy. The speed issue is another misconception. People make a big fuss over Mhz. Seriously do you really need a 2Ghz processor to surf most internet sites or use Word? Unless you type 4000 works a minute a 200 mhz works just as well. I am going to hell just for how many times I've sworn well trying to get our windows machines working at my work. If it weren't for my work I would never touch a windows machine again. I've had my Tibook for a year and have not crashed it once (and I'm good at crashing computers), in fact now that I think about it, I think I have only rebooted and shutdown a total of like ten times. That's would be an impressive number for a server let alone a laptop.

Hey check it out everyone. The photo gallery isn't working properly at the moment, and that is why you don't like it. The old gallery isn't compatible with the new bulletin board and it was a resource hog so we phasing it out. The problem with the new gallery is that the thumbnails aren't being made at the moment, that is why you have to scroll sideways to see things. The gallery should look something like this http://gallery.boatdesign.net/ where you see all the thumbnails and then you click on the picture. We'll get it fixed soon and then you can stop your bitching.

Drul, unfortunately the old one won't work with the new software otherwise we would have kept using it. The new one IMO is much nicer, hence us having to shell out the cash for it. We just need some time to figure it out and get the kinks out.

Apple education is selling iBooks for $899. Apple has a loan offer, but the interest rates aren't as good as you could do with a credit card.

True Story. I had three GU packs not sure if they would hand any out during the race. At mile four that had tons of people handing PowerGel out for about 100 yards. I couldn't help myself, I just kept grapping them and stuffing them in my vest pocket. Oh Oh I didn't get that flavor yet! Double the Caffeine! Before I knew it my pockets were full with about 10 pounds of PowerGel that I had to lug to the line with my already fat ass.

On a similar note a guy who goes by the name of "Trask" had his girlfriend get a vaginal transplant, with the donor being a chicken.

HEY JON BY THE WAY HOW DID YOU AND TIM MEET? WELL JON, TIM AND I FIRST MET IN COLLEGE BECAUSE WE WERE IN THE SAME "FRAT". NO SHIT? NO FRIGGIN SHIT MANG!!! HEY COUGS YOU'RE GOING DOWN THIS WEEKEND!!!!!! NO ROSE BOWL FOR YOU!!!!!

YEAH FUCK THE DUCHESS TOO!!

FUCKING FRAT BOYS!

Sweet Gaper now everyone is going to start a climbing website!

Maybe he went on vacation?

Matt stop beating around the bush, we all know you're going to get a Subaru Outback so you can finally fit in the crowd at REI. It's a great family vehicle. Question is, how much say do you have in the matter, and much say does she have?

Don't forget your bluetooth enable laptop with firewire, and your palm handheld with GPS navigation, and and and and and your WAP enabled phone. And for god's sake don't forget the SportTrac next trip!

TALK BY CHARLES HOUSTON, M.D., "Exploring the Heights". TIME: 7 PM, Thursday, NOV. 14, 2002 PLACE: KANE HALL, UW CAMPUS ADMISSION: FREE (thanks to several benefactors). Tickets needed, available at all University Bookstore locations. We in Seattle are in for a unique treat. Dr. Charles Houston, one of our country's great gurus of the golden age of exploratory mountaineering, will narrate mountaineering's world premier of a video he has just created recounting his near lifelong love affair with high places. And it's not a short affair, for Charlie turned this summer. His affair is with two closely-related mistresses: the climbing of mountains and the study of how human's adapt to their high altitude. Dr. Houston's introduction to mountaineering took place as a barely teenager in the Alps in 1925 but his first creative explorations took place while a Harvard student in the '30s, notably in the remote, unexplored wilderness of Alaska and the Yukon. This film, created from both still and movie footage, depicts his four grand Himalayan journeys and also captures some of his pioneering research endeavors exploring man's affair with thin air: <sum> Nanda Devi, 1936, at the time the highest mountain yet climbed. <sum> K2, 1938, the first American "reconnaissance" and attempt to ascend the Abruzzi Ridge. <sum> Everest, 1950: His and Bill Tilman's journey as the first westerners to reach the scene of Mount Everest's notorious Icefall, enabling them to express their doubts about its sane passage. <sum> K2, 1953, one of the great American epics of heroic effort, recounted in the book by Houston and Robert Bates, K2, the Savage Mounntain. <sum> High Mountain Research, from the chamber studies, "Operation Everest I in the 1940s, through the years of studies on Mount Logan in the Yukon, to Operation Everest II in 1985. It was Dr. Houston who catalyzed these major explorations of how well and badly humans can fare at extremely high altitudes The video will be followed by a conversation with Charlie Houston, who will close the evening by signing copies of his books for those who desire: K2, The Savage Mountain, Five Miles High (?), and Going Higher, the story of human adaptation to high altitude. [ 11-12-2002, 10:53 AM: Message edited by: jon ]

Dru, I found a Microsoft TechNet article you might be interested. Apparently they have found a flaw in the Canadian version of Internet Explorer that improperly renders complex frame schemes on climbing websites. You should check it out. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/internetexplorer/canada/eat/a/8=D.html

Sorry. Eventually I'll post some instructions to do this. To my knowledge there is no good included image editor with Windows. Best bet is to download free one and try it out. Most of the demos now for the Adobe and Macromedia products give a 30-day full functional trial, but if your resourceful you can extend that trial I haven't used this one but here is a link to a free one I found. http://download.com.com/3000-2192-10132330.html?tag=lst-4-5 If you are cool and using a Mac then old favorite is GraphicConverter which runs on classic and OS X. http://download.com.com/3000-2197-10164114.html?tag=lst-4-1 If you are using OS X you can also use iPhoto.

Take smaller pictures.

Hey Dustin, there are a lot of organizations offering classes out there. I personally haven't heard of this before, is SVC a club or a guiding outfit? Or do you mean SAC? Don't get discouraged, just top your topic once every couple of days so people see it.

Left forearm. Two 4 inch scars. One 1 inch scar where my bone decided to exit my body. 2 3.5 inch steel plates. 14 screws. 1 week in the hospital. 2 months of rehab. $30,000. A month full of morphine, oxycontin, percocet, and a hot ass nurse. Priceless.

There is a difference between having fun and being an idiot. There is a diffence between being funny and being funny at someone elses expense. There are some people here who think they have some god given right to do and they say what they please here with no consequences. You have a right to your opinion here, within reason, but you don't have the right to jerk people around litter the board with worthless crap.

quote: Originally posted by bolt clipper: I recently read an article by Eric Horst discussing training cycles to peak for a short time each season (shades of Mark Twight). Question is, if you don't train peaks, at what point are you physically not able to improve? I do no training other than bouldering my brains out at the gym three days a week, if anyone's wondering. It's called periodization, developed by the Russians to kick our asses at the Olympics for a couple decades until we caught on. There has been a lot of research done about periodization versus normal training like you are talking about. There is a saying that 90% of your potential comes from 10% of the work required to realize 100% potential. It's that last 10% where periodization is the key. I've done a serious periodization plan for about 8 months and the results were mind bogling versus just a general routine.

All fixed chica! You DO need to clean out your inbox though.