gregm

let's not forget all the wonderful things the nazis did for germany before the war started - major public works projects and economic revival. i remember my dad talking about how the nazis modernized a lot of the farming systems and public health facilities in the rural part of germany he was from. the nazis were shakers and movers - they got stuff done. and they had an agenda, just like saddam.

so i'm at work and somebody's here fixing a sink and as i walk past i get a classic shot of plumber butt. well add that particular psychological injury to workplace hazards. you'd think i'd be able to get some kind of workman's comp for emotional trauma.

two things: 1) is the US supporting these guys in any way? i remember "US rapes nuns in el salvador" as a protester catch phrase a while back and now i'm envisioning "US eats pygmies in the congo!" 2) article states "We hear reports of MLC and RCD-N commanders feeding on sexual organs of Pygmies, apparently believing this would give them strength,". will i be able to run like a thoroughbred from ?

what's messed up in north korea is thousands of people are starving to death. the north korean goverment is using it's available rice to feed it's million man army while ordinary people die. kim doesn't care as long as he stays in power (or rather the generals who surround him, since kim himself seems weak). so kim plays the nuclear card so the u.s. won't try to topple his regime. so now it's "just put down the gun and everything will be ok". the food shortage problem won't go away until north korea throws in the towel and accepts reunification under south korean control. and BTW i don't think china wants that to happen.

basically the judge gets away with it because he killed those trees "by accident". if you kill a human "by accident" they can still get you for manslaughter or negligent homocide. if trees had rights they'd be able to get the judge for "treeslaughter".

so it looks like the morning's biggest spray topic is wine tasting. my my aren't we a civil crowd all of a sudden. next thing you know the cascades will have a reputation as the kind of place where you can leave a pack someplace and come back to find that someone's left a chocolate mint on top.

this thread has had me googling about. here's an interesting quote from an interesting site: "Wildfires are part of nature, but they don't have to be destructive to homes. Research shows that 85 to 95 percent of houses burned by wildfires could have been saved with a few simple precautions, such as raking pine needles, keeping flammable plants away from houses and building with fire resistant materials." Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics

further proof that not all a-rabs are bad people: this young lad looks like a prime candidate for americanization. only question is will he be a repub or a dem.

i'm not going to restate what many others have already said about the number of days during the winter when the avi danger is at least "considerable". peter, i suspect you are going to limit backcountry skiing activities to the springtime, which is fine and what a lot of people do, and i think pretty much a requirement for the levels of certainty you're asking for. i think he may have been trying to say that when you enter avalanche terrain you can do everything right and still get killed, which is something everyone should know.

slope stability analysis is a fairly inexact science. i think we occaisionally see accidents were based on the available information we can point to mistakes more experienced or wiser people would have avoided. i do not think this particular tragedy falls into that category. based on the available information it sounds like this is something that could have easily happened to me or most of the people i ski with; probably i think even most experienced and safety oriented backcountry skiers. i think it highlights the fact that in avalanche terrain the danger can be reduced but never completely eliminated. from the reports i have read it sounds like a layer of hoar frost may have contributed to the slide. along with depth hoar, hoar frost layers can be a sneaky killer. it is not always something we look for when digging a pit, and can be a very localised phenomenon.

hiking up to terror basin via goodall creek over thanksgiving we found one step in crampon on the trail. i left it in a prominent spot but somehow missed it on the way down so it's probably still up there.

i remember, in my younger, cruder days, some of the guys would refer to ponytails on women of barely legal age as handlebars, but thank you trask for sharing your version.

wow, 30% of those shootings were accidental. that averages to $240 million annually for accidental shootings. maybe there should be some kind of competancy test for owning a gun. or maybe (this should rile some feathers haha) there should be a gun tax to pay for it all.

have you tried google looks like a eurogoat or something.

she might fit if you don't inflate her all the way.

putting a little seam grip on there might hold it together. an amature darn job won't be pretty anyway. depending on where the hole is i would worry about it sticking to my leg though, since seam grip always seems to be perpetually tacky.

i wouldn't think glue patching schoeller would work that well. i'd try to just "darn" the hole with a needle and thread. stitch threads across the hole in one direction, then weave more threads through those from the other direction. as done with socks in the olden days. oh yeah. yo mama.

i've heard several references to "three way peak" somewhere in the crystal backcountry area.

did you happen to notice if snow lake is frozen over yet? (don't actually know how much of a view you would have of it.)

i once got a disco desktop pen and pencil set with disco stationary or something. it was from a german relative during the period after disco had thankfully faded in the u.s. but was still big on the continent. another reason to distrust them dang foreigners.

somebody was really trashing the new ortovox x-1 over on telemarktips.com. whoever it was he apparently has a business selling nothing but beacons and went out and tested the x-1 next to other beacons and found the range deficient among other problems. obviously just one person's experience though...

you can get every concievable polyurathane tube diamter at home depot, by the foot.

and i miss you like the deserts miss the rain

i emailed dave about reposting baby rocco. he feels maybe cc.com isn't ready for rocco. alas another artist ahead of his time to join the ranks of vincent vangough and lenny bruce.