Squid

Hey- pipe down over there!! I'm having trouble finding the nipple!

Black Eyed Peas Blackalcious Bo Diddley Buddy Holly Camper Van Beethooven Cat Power Chuck Berry Clem Snide Donovan The Flaming Lips Fountains of Wayne Franz Ferdinand Jerry Lee Lewis The Jesus and Mary Chain Little Richard Marvin Gaye Mclusky Modest Mouse Mudhoney Nada Surf The New Pornographers Old 97's The Roots Screaming Trees Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Sleater-Kinney Snow Patrol Stellastarr Sugarcubes The Thermals Velvet Underground Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yo La Tango and the 3 presidential debates.

Whatever. Next thing you'll tell me is that Pamela Anderson's breasts aren't real- or that Britney Spear's lipsyncs. Don't mess with the fantasy.

kk- it's a reference to an archaic pregnancy test. It not a reference to Floppsie, Britney's purebred Angora rabbit (who is doing fine, btw). Floppsie:

Absolute weight matters in climbing.

...makes my palms sweat just lookin' at her..

whoah

I am simultaneously inspired and reminded that I suck.

ooooh! A Jane Jacobs name-check. I think I love you, jordop.

He only did that 'cuz he's had that condom in there since high schoo.. He thought he might get lucky in a bivy

non sequitur alert

I love OR-WA-BC drivers. Best in the world. Sure, they may go a little slowly at times, and their cute little subarus may wander erraticly across the lanes as they sip their double mochas, but I love 'em. No other drivers yield as willingly to me when I step out into the crosswalk, or so patiently wait until my bike clears the intersection before they pull that right turn. Good on ya, drivers of Cascadia! Carry forth the banner of polite driving and yielding to pedestrians and cyclists (when appropriate).

mad cow disease was invented by vegan anarchists

There is cell phone reception at 14k...

You'll get over her, Gary. and you'll climb 5.12 someday. Then she will be the jealous one!

Chair peak?

post on cc.com

Idaho's probably a pretty good bet. There's so much space and so few people. I'm considering Chimney Rock or something in the Sawtooths

situation's getting pretty dire there in SLC, eh?

KK, can I come visit your world someday? Everything seems happy there, and just a little simpler. It must be a great place.

I drank the Skykomish. I drank the whole thing. Don't worry, it will come back. After too many years of not boating, I figured that I could ace Boulder Drop of the Skykomish no problem. I was wickedly wrong, and was punished appropriately. Don't worry, the Skykomish will be back to normal levels after a couple of rains. Then I ran into AlpinFox & Oly out at Index. Oly was rocking the fist cracks! It was great to watch.

...and we've come full cirlce. Thanks for agreeing with the original article. The whole point of science is that it is an ongoing discussion. Of course each lab will have some skew to it's data, that's why folks publish, collaborate and challenge. Some funky results in a single lab (your phenotype example) in no way weaken the process. Cutting the funding does weaken the process, and silences the discussion. There's nothing 'left' or 'right' about that.

Got gear to sell?

No, but I can name at least 6 six friends off the top of my head who have missed out on a season because they didn't want to take the time to heal. If there was a shortcut, I'm sure someone would've found it by now.