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so, did anyone else's youthful indiscretion involve a police officer calling for backup? anyone?

washington dc has a similar layout, with streets radiating from central circles and squares. the city was rebuilt this way after a british cavalry attack burned the place down during the war of 1812. it was designed this way so the captial could be defended from future cavalry attacks; by placing a small number of canons in the central squares they would have a field of fire down the radiating streets covering the city. most of the rectangular grid streets were added later. what would you do without educated people in your midst?

using mom's hairspray as a blow torch. paperclip fights at my friend's house: two teams of 3 or 4 people each, rubber bands, several boxes of paperclips, football helmets but no eye protection. jumping up to catch a frisbee and landing on top of a cop car.

quote: Originally posted by allison: "it looks like you ordered the wrong accessory package for your camera" (pull gently) "blah blah blah $399 for accessory pack instead of the $179 one you ordered"......No, that puts me over budget, cancel the whole order (wriggling off the hook)......"wait let me get the manager and I'll se what I can do for you" (puts me in hold for 1 nanosecond)...."we can do the accessory pack for $229" this is standard camera dealer schlock. you will see it a lot. if you're shopping for a camera, there are a variety of price compare sites. most of them include customer feedback ratings, as well as an indication of weather the camera you want is currently in stock. i have usually gone one small notch over the cheapest price shown to avoid the above scenero. while you probably want to shop around for your particular model i've had good results from etronics.com and abesofmaine.com. anyway allison have fun with the camera. if you need some digital photo bbs checkout the dpreview.com canon forum it's actually quite sprayless

quote: Originally posted by chucK: quote:Originally posted by Peter Puget: Sex Bomb Baby, Yea! damn, i didn't know anyone else remembered flipper. sniffle

that's some pretty fancy qouting there dustin, i'm impressed. i know the 13-0 story and all. i seem to recall hearing it ABOUT A HUNDRED FREAKING TIMES i did do a ton of mtn biking when i was in austin, but cool weather and skiing is where it's at. so did you used to wear a cowboy hat and belt buckle?

you might check out the canon s-30 or s-40. it is basically a g2 in a compact case with a smaller lens. it is still not as small as a lot of compacts but you have all the manual controls you could possibly want. it is not set up for external flash or add on lenses, but you can buy third party adapters. whatever you get, the movie mode is basically a gimmick but turns out to be a lot of fun.

quote: Originally posted by RobBob: quote: what ever, at least the engineering students at the Oklahoma universities don't kill masses of their fellow students with their drunken revelries around burning stacks of hundreds of telephone poles haphazardly stacked 4 stories high (as has been done in recent times in Texas). Thinker, anyone who has ever lived in Austin would tell you that people who reside in College Station are not representatives of Texas. i lived in *** Austin *** for three years and never did see what the big freaking deal was. wahoo let's go to antone's. wahoo on earth as it is in austin. wahoo let's smoke some skanky mexican weed. wahoo there's this big cow or something and her name's "bevo" for some reason. texas sucks, whole damn state. it's too damn hot and there's no mountians. and the worst of it is all the these texans think it's some big deal or something. texas = florida.

i have an mp3 of "city sleeps" on my computer. if your email takes huge attachments i can send it to you. i was on a similar quest a while back but gave up. saw them live in austin many years ago, it was quite a spellbinding show.

WTF!!! i ask jon to make me chronic gumby and now everybody does it?! that was supposed to be my personal epitaph. couldn't you all just be "wanker"? whatever, i am still the first chronic gumby.

too many

pretty much what sayjay said. alpine touring is probably more efficient when used as an adjunct to climbing. also, AT gear is not heavier than tele gear, despite what some people will tell you. actually i just wanted to test my new autosig.

quote: Originally posted by trask: i find bicyclists on narrow country roads to be a bother, and sometimes hazzard to themselves and we motorists on the other hand, i have not had any negitive run-ins with cyclists in Seattle or Everett i personally try to be courteous to drivers AND cyclists fuck man, i'm always worried about pissing off some wacko and getting shot it's easier to just get along what's with the short line length? it's like like william carlos williams meets boz scaggs.

quote: Originally posted by Stefan: Ken Schramm is only ranting about the bicycle messengers downtown. He is not ranting about the everyday joe commuting or using his bike outside of downtown. i don't think so. he makes specific mention that more bikers are out now that the weather is nice, although that is a point i'd tend to agree with - sunny afternoon bikers are really clueless.

quote: Originally posted by klar404: Never trust a car. It Will kill you! amen brother.

there are a couple reasons why a bike will deliberately take up a lane: to prevent a car making a right turn in front of the bike and potentially cutting him off (a lot of motorists underestimate a bikes speed - it's really dangerous if you are on a bike), or if there isn't enough room (like cars parked and opening doors etc.), or the guy might just be an asshole. legal? actually i think so. nice? no. does it keep you alive? yes. ken schram aside i actually do obey the traffic laws, most of the time anyway. i still think it's usually the motorists who are creating the unsafe situations. and what's a fender bender for a car is broken bones or worse for a cyclist. anyway, a biker learns to do what he needs to. i could spew here all day long about how we can share the road but i'd still need to ride just as defensively. a lot of motorists just don't see bikers, or maybe they just realize they're not going to get seriously injured by one.

re: bicycling dear dickhead, as a bicyclist who rides to work year round rain or shine i can honestly tell you that if i obeyed all the traffic laws i'd be dead in two weeks. you learn pretty how to get where you're going and stay alive at the same time. it gives me great pleasure to delay your fat motor driven ass. oh yeah somebody named jon sent me. up yours, greg mueller

i'm curious, why did you descend the sulfide? why not just descend the white salmon? did you park a second car? where did you start out?

that was probably us you saw topping out. we had hiked in saturday and camped at the base of the climb. we were moving the next morning at 4:10 and by the time we topped out it was getting somewhat slushy. if you try again go left around the pyramid (unless the ridge is snow free and climbable). we went right and lost a lot of elevation we had to regain. i guess you already know about the approach here's some pictures if you're interested.

quote: Originally posted by none: My old man was in the 10th Mountain Division in WW II. . hey none - my old man was in the 10th during the big one also. maybe they should trade email addresses...

when i was up there 3 or 4 years ago on a really warm day someone (on a rope) fell into a crevasse. but then she was a big fat chick. wait, nevermind. there aren't many crevasses on the sitcom, but there are a few.

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quote: Originally posted by Lambone: quote:Originally posted by gregm: if you are clipped to an anchor at or feet and take a fall you end up taking a factor 2 fall and the resulting stresses on the system. Greg, you're totaly right. Although tieing into the anchor with four feet of rope is esentialy static as well...would you agree? according to the putzl article, you get enough stretch in four feet of rope to handle a low velocity fall, and enough stretch in 30 feet of rope to handle a high velocity fall, so it turns into a similar impact on your harness. i can't find the original article i read (it was a photocopy) but if you go to their web page they have somethin similar.

not sure if this has been brought up, but the weakness of daisies is not the tensil strength but the fact that they are not dynamic and consequently exert a huge force on the anchor or your body. if you are clipped to an anchor at or feet and take a fall you end up taking a factor 2 fall and the resulting stresses on the system. (at least this is what i think i read by something by petzl). you also never want to clip two loops because the you are only on the stitching between the loops. if you clip one loop you are on a bar tacked runner. that said my vote is: i always tie off on a clove. but i keep a daisy ready on my harness for 1) setting up rapels sometimes and 2) unfucking the rope and 3) reserve tank runner / anchor material.