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it's distortion from converting a bmp to a jpg you loser.

22 under. show me the goods.

Word on the street is that you are sleeping with Trask. so basically trish_fox = trask's fist?

actually from what i remember from tim matsui's slide show is it was a total fucking coincidense!

from what i heard from the person who sent me that link a while back they actually survived with serious injuries. it took place in italy or someplace like that, and they were practicing rescue techniques when their anchor failed.

on the subject, if i ever go for denali i will likely want to wear my scarpa lazer ski boots with thermoflex liners. i formed my thermoflexes to fit with only a thin liner sock (standard prectice for skiing). questions are 1) is that likely to be warm enough? (those thermoflexes are way warm, but i've never been at 20K) and 2) i've heard your feet swell at altitude. would that be a problem since i only have room for a liner sock?

16 under par.

MATTP FOR POPE! think of it... "eh? for watchyou wanna use birth control? i can think of somethin better, eh?"

'bout time you washed thosed hands! cc.com has finally achieved it's goal of engaging the media in a sprayfest. a dubious achievement perhaps, but compared to the efforts terrorists make to get attention i suppose we can live with ourselves.

my biggest tip for beginning tele skiers: don't get into the bad habit of letting the trailing ski get too far back - it needs to be beneith you with your weight on the ball of your foot. pretend you are holding a grapefruit between your knees and everything will be perfect. if you are planning on teleing in the backcountry you may want to practice in some off-piste snow early on as well. it is very different. i have seen people get very good on piste and then flounder in the deep stuff.

i feel a visit from harry pi may be immanent

tell your friend the entirety of history has been committed by the people in power - wars, genocide, trail park fees, the works. or just tell her she's an idiot.

frontline website

i used some scrap 1/2 inch plywood to build a pidgeon hole shelf system that holds 16 copier paper boxes (4x4). oodles of copier paper boxes at work...

The time scale of the universe is very long compared to that for human life. It was therefore not surprising that until recently, the universe was thought to be essentially static, and unchanging in time. On the other hand, it must have been obvious, that society is evolving in culture and technology. This indicates that the present phase of human history can not have been going for more than a few thousand years. Otherwise, we would be more advanced than we are. It was therefore natural to believe that the human race, and maybe the whole universe, had a beginning in the fairly recent past. However, many people were unhappy with the idea that the universe had a beginning, because it seemed to imply the existence of a supernatural being who created the universe. They preferred to believe that the universe, and the human race, had existed forever. Their explanation for human progress was that there had been periodic floods, or other natural disasters, which repeatedly set back the human race to a primitive state. This argument about whether or not the universe had a beginning, persisted into the 19th and 20th centuries. It was conducted mainly on the basis of theology and philosophy, with little consideration of observational evidence. This may have been reasonable, given the notoriously unreliable character of cosmological observations, until fairly recently. The cosmologist, Sir Arthur Eddington, once said, 'Don't worry if your theory doesn't agree with the observations, because they are probably wrong.' But if your theory disagrees with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, it is in bad trouble. In fact, the theory that the universe has existed forever is in serious difficulty with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The Second Law, states that disorder always increases with time. Like the argument about human progress, it indicates that there must have been a beginning. Otherwise, the universe would be in a state of complete disorder by now, and everything would be at the same temperature. In an infinite and everlasting universe, every line of sight would end on the surface of a star. This would mean that the night sky would have been as bright as the surface of the Sun. The only way of avoiding this problem would be if, for some reason, the stars did not shine before a certain time. In a universe that was essentially static, there would not have been any dynamical reason, why the stars should have suddenly turned on, at some time. Any such "lighting up time" would have to be imposed by an intervention from outside the universe. The situation was different, however, when it was realised that the universe is not static, but expanding. Galaxies are moving steadily apart from each other. This means that they were closer together in the past. One can plot the separation of two galaxies, as a function of time. If there were no acceleration due to gravity, the graph would be a straight line. It would go down to zero separation, about twenty billion years ago. One would expect gravity, to cause the galaxies to accelerate towards each other. This will mean that the graph of the separation of two galaxies will bend downwards, below the straight line. So the time of zero separation, would have been less than twenty billion years ago.

2 or 3 feet.

roadside snowpack seemed low for this time of year, but once you get to 5500' everything is deeply covered. i did not see any natural slides or fracture lines. i saw some buried debris in places but i don't know how old it was. it was snowing heavily at the time so i just assumed it was time to stick to safer lines and never dug a pit. somebody else dug a pit and said he saw old crusts with surface hoar on top. i think he said those layers were not shearing cleanly, but i can't elaborate. a backcountry-inexperienced snowboarder in our group set off a small sluff on a steep convexity, but it was nothing more that you'd expect on a day that it was snowing heavily.

spent the weekend up at cerise creek (joffre lakes area). fabulous deep powder abounded everywhere.

anybody know where i can find wind forecasts? need to get the kite out.

i have one of these but have not actually used it yet. i don't think it would rate to a 30 degree bag. more like a 45. also, i found it somewhat narrow in the shoulders. it is extremely light and small though.

They swear an oath to the Constitution, not the President, if I'm not mistaken. It shows you don't have a clue about the military community, Iain. "I, stateyourname, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

anti-gravity tree research:

anybody home?

DFA is a butt sucking moron. Discuss.

anybody remember the invisible ink thread? maybe we could do some of that again and see if anybody notices, or if trask figures it out this time.