Stop Changing the Argument.

[Off_White]

So I said to her, "Gawd, I didn't think that was physically possible, show me that again?"

[Squid]

Cool, but when I was climbing at Vantage I saw some guys who'd only backed up their figure-8's with DOUBLE-FISHERMAN knots, instead of TRIPLE-FISHERMAN knots.

 

I interceded, and showed them how unsafe they were being, and they called me an asshole.

 

Who do I call to get their Northwest Forest Passes revoked?

[Dru]

What exactly IS the proper term to refer to an extinct species recreated through cloning?

 

Ex-extinctees?

[Alpinfox]

 

The photo caption on page 195 of Nelson/Potterfeld's "Selected Climbs in the Cascades Vol.II" should read:

 

"Alpinfox is an alpine hero; quite possibly the coolest thing since folded gnesis".

[glacier]

I think it's fingers to thin hands, but I'd bring along a #5 camalot just in case.

[Dru]

hello I want to climb this route also but only have a 60m rope. Do you know if 60m is adequate or should I buy 10m of webbing to tie onto the end of my rope?

[glacier]

Logging Terms You Wouldn't Want to Use at a Debutante Ball.

BY ERIC MAIERSON

 

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Beaver-tailing

Blow-down

Tail hold

Butt log

Head tree

Holding wood

Log dump

Stiff boom

Stump shot

[tomtom]

The climb is rated 5.7 with a 5.9 start.

[Mr._Natural]

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[Szyjakowski]

this thread is sooo suck!

[Spliffy]

I think that mineral oil is a poor choice. You may want to consider a high temp cutting oil instead.

[Dru]

Since e to the i to the pi is equal to e to the (i times pi), it's all irrelevant.

[John Frieh]

[Dru]

 

Pal, J.S., F. Giorgi, and X. Bi, 2004: Consistency of recent European summer

projection trends and extremes with future regional climate projections.

Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L13202, doi:10.1029/2004GL019836.

Patterns of recent summer trends in European droughts and floods are

remarkably consistent with projected climate change, according to a recent

study by a group of Italian scientists. The trend in 500 hPa geopotential

height (from NCEP data) and mean summer precipitation (from CRU data) where

calculated by subtracting 1951-1975 average values from the 1976-2000

values. The ICTP Regional Climate model was run for two IPCC scenarios A2

(a higher GHG scenario) and B2 (a lower GHG scenario). The patterns from

the model run (for both A2 and B2) were shown to be similar to the observed

changes in the patterns over Europe. However, as expected, the scale of

the changes between recent changes and projected changes are different. The

authors concluded that although they cannot link the recent changes to

anthropogenic greenhouse gases, the results do suggest observed drying

trends might continue over much of Europe.

[Stonehead]

 

Friday, August 20, 2004

Rabid otter attacks boy in Putnam

Animal killed after chasing swim class

By Nik Bonopartis

Poughkeepsie Journal

 

PUTNAM VALLEY -- A rabies-infested otter was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy Wednesday after it chased down and bit a Putnam Valley boy at a local swimming spot, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said.

 

Six-year-old Ethan Pederson was taking swimming lessons at a community swimming area in a small lake in the town, police said, when he escaped from the water with the otter hanging onto his back and legs.

 

The lifeguards were able to wrestle the otter off Pederson, but the animal began chasing other people in the immediate area. Police said the otter ran back into the water several times but returned and tried to attack the rest of the people in the swimming class.

 

Sheriff's deputies were called to the lake about 11:16 a.m. Lifeguards were able to trap the otter under a plastic crate before police arrived, and a deputy killed the animal.

-- source

[Dru]

This notion is catnip for the techno-intelligentsia: "Wow, if we brainy geeks were even more like we already are, we'd be godlike!" Check out the biographies of real-life geniuses, though - Newton, Goethe, da Vinci, Einstein - and you find vulnerable mortals who have difficulty maintaining focus. If the world were full of da Vincis, we'd all be quarrelsome, gay, left-handed Italians who couldn't finish a painting.

[pope]

piles and puddles

[catbirdseat]

Pope, that one sure makes it hard to stay OFF topic.

[glacier]

Former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco is still dead.

[ashw_justin]

Well I wrote Chapter 5 of FOTH and I say you should stick to

quarrelsome, gay, left-handed Italians.

 

 

Yeah well fuck you man, Lance is the only rider to win the TDF six times and I don't give a shit what that little bastard Simeoni has to say about it!

[Dru]

The first invention came in the 1950s. Soldiers could get out of the Czech army by claiming they were gay, and researcher Kurt Freund needed to find a way to confirm their orientation. He invented a kind of barometer that measures changes in air pressure around the penis when a man has an erection. A more modern device -- nicknamed a "peter meter" -- uses mercury and an electrical current to measure changes in the size of a band placed around the penis. In women, scientists use a tampon-like gizmo that shines light into the vagina and tracks blood flow by measuring the diffusion of light in the surrounding tissues.

 

The devices have provided psychologists with plenty to think about. Last year, Northwestern University researchers reported that women, regardless of their sexual orientation, tend to get turned on by all types of pornography -- gay, lesbian and straight. Heterosexual men, by contrast, prefer erotica with at least one female participant. The opposite is true of gay men.

 

The arousal devices aren't perfect, however. "The female instrument is more complicated than the male instrument," said Michael Bailey, chairman of the psychology department at Northwestern University. "We understand it less, and people are less satisfied with it." To make matters more complicated, many men don't have full erections, especially when they're older, and it's difficult to compare stimulation in men and women.

 

[glacier]

...and the penguin says, "No, it's just ice cream."

[pope]

I'm offended by the cc.commie who smoked the meat doobie at the Muir Hut.

[slothrop]

[bunglehead]

Wow.