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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 29, 2015 - 12:04pm PT
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E mail you?
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Apr 29, 2015 - 01:36pm PT
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Here's some smiles...Me, Peggy Lou and the kid, Katherine Muir
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 29, 2015 - 10:39pm PT
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Smile and the world smiles, too.We call this kind of ladies' hair fashion "helmet hair."
Some guys just melt when they see it.
Dancing cheek to cheek is kind of off-putting for me, however.
And I recall a certain dance partner in 9th grade who wore a bra that was like, "rude, man." It was like two cannon shells on this well-endowed woman.
Her name was Kathy. She had a bright, chipper smile. And hardened steel hair.
So, with that intro, here's this.
http://hair-and-makeup-artist.com/mens-military-haircuts/
http://hair-and-makeup-artist.com/womens-1960s-hairstyles/
In non-sequiturial order, here's Ludwig's fifth piano concerto the way it should be played.
V. Ashkenazy/London Philly/Haitink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4pJxad_aI8
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 30, 2015 - 12:52am PT
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My days were filled with spring rambling savory solo jaunts up and as I have now for, the last ten years or so slid back down a slim twin line.
The top and I are not acquainted because pasted on exit moves just isn't worth the grovel.
Too many times at the move back to the horizontal, the top out is all about enjoying the face full of brambles and a mouth full of dirt from gardens of hanging dirt, the stick and twig filled loam that collects at the edges of cliff.
I call on the Mark tight, te doctor of doom a cutting edge Alpine/all around climber in the late 80s. Jilted by his loves for many different reasons he posited that summits need not be reached to claim to have climbed a new route. Embraced whole heartedly this is my greatest
Hypocrisy, I have become a Tony doesn't go to the Top, type of climber!!
Years ago when I was a fleck on the belly of the beast I was honored to raze all sorts of younger up and coming hard pullers one in particular at the start of his climbing, never finished a route,
I picked that calloused scab every time that we climbed in a three of him a legacy's son and me. The climbs at the Gunks, around the east, maybe in general climbs end in a mantel to a stand up , the belly roll on to the top won't work, you would slip off if you tried.
Stop
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 30, 2015 - 01:15am PT
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The machine that drops this I might throw thru my nightmare an end at a bottle of extra strength. cold medicine and forty year old Seconal,
On my first climbin' trip to the valley it was wine and Seconol and the slopping ledges to drift to awake and shivering on.
now if the cut & paste on this worked I would not care but it drops a stinker some times
but mostly I blame my lame with tech. Self.
Twin complaints as my ankles are swollen and stiff, the water I drank a lot of is making sleeping a waste as I have to pee like a race horse,every hour on the hour .
Getting old sure sucks !
The green pond ridge, what I called Highbernia as a nod to the Scott's who pioneered the NJ highlands,and it is on the old maps is to blame for my needing a cane!
. The ridges are a discontinuous line of broken ridge tops made of pudding stone, a sand stone conglomerate that is made up of dense fine grained wine colored to a rusty looking sandstone matrix that holds fist sized and smaller pebbles of Quartz.
As the ridges of climbable rock are spread out over ten to twelve miles the epicenter of the best concentration of climbs is in a small four mile area that is bordered on three sides by residential homes, then there is the ex ski area, Craigmeir.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2015 - 06:15am PT
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Am I smelling coffee, Gnome?
You sound as if you'd love to sleep but are sitting up in the dark like I was, not now able to drop into Morph's place due to...
And this was a pleasant surprise, an unexpected meeting as the sun has risen on your side of the country, but has to wait a bit here in the mediterranean climate. There is a soft wind and the trains have passed and it is quiet in the world outside.
Inside the tomb of this room with the son of Boom.
I'm recalling the article I read--well, most of it, anyhow--in a recent issue of AZ Hiwayz (11/52) about quaking aspens. The writer mentioned the mountain beaver, aka the boomer, and it instantly kindled thoughts which flamed up and made me chase a name of a man who I met on Tuedsday.
Boomer is my dad's nickname, see. He flew an aeroplane in the War, just like GARP's dad. This is the chain of consciousness concerning my thinking, so there's no head-scratching "What's he on about?"
Michael Samberg of Atwater, 92 years old. His wife is 95. They remind me of the Deckers, John's parents. John lives up on floor five, Upper Middle Earth. He's devoted to them.
Mike is a retired engineer. He lived his early life in New York. He went into the service of the US Army to fight the nazi. He put up a good fight. And he won.
http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=27441
They didn't know the gun was loaded? They were not straight shooters? No, he was just a lot damned luckier than a two-peckered billy goat or a whole lot luckier than the dammed Colorado River.
I was fortunate to have been able to ride back from my visit to Fresno in the van's middle seat with Mike and to have spoken with him waiting for the last guy to finish up with his appointment.
I wish this man was my neighbor. He'd soon get tired of me hangin' around, though. I'd pester him for stories like Dennis pestered Mr. Mitchell.
So does the name Samberg mean anything to you?
He's related to the SNL's Andy Samberg, a first cousin type of relationship, but probably twice removed. He explained the relationship thing by saying simply that second indicates no blood relation, while first does.
Being an engineer and having degrees from City College of NY and another school in the Big Giant Apple, and having to use his knowledge as a draftsman/engineer in the late 40s and on, he knew about slide rules like I know about pitons.
http://sliderulemuseum.com/KE_Standard.htm
He made the claim that his slide rules were all K & E brand, the finest, he said. Boomer used a slide rule when doing his "homework" from the office: computing percentages on office performance for the higher management guy in Modesto.
Non-sequitured in here are these pictorial images of mine, far better than the ones I took from the van.
Keep fighting the good fight against gravity, lad. Say hello to the boydz.
I have miles to go before I sleep again.
And I'm pretty sure there will be many, many months before we get more rain.
When I am a truly old man, I shall look for purple rain.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 30, 2015 - 06:41am PT
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I never will ask in that tone as to what you are on about ,
I know it is on thin rations and Ernest thought of spending so much love and time thinking enjoying toying with mind games ,seeing oddly, trippin'and stuff, all of it worthy.
The spacer goes racer and the final curves he runs at flat out
Winning the race . . .
Cheers good morn' and I will see you later
Maybe did I call? Yeah! Again Howell go well!
Apr 30, 2015 - 06:41am PT
I never will ask in that tone as to what you are on about ,
I know it is on thin rations and Ernest thought of spending so much love ad time thinking and enjoying toying with mind games ,trip and stuff,
The spacer goes racer and the final curves he runs at flat out
Winning the race
Cheers good morn' and I will see you later
Maybe did I call? Yeah! Again Howell go well!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2015 - 06:50am PT
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I'll be going to talk to Doc Love this a.m.
Memeean to say doglove.
Be sweet to each other today, folks.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2015 - 07:19am PT
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Here is the back cover of that issue of ZZ Hiways.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 30, 2015 - 08:37am PT
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MARk Termimi??
Once pictured in one of the climbing mags soloing the route FIVE TEN D, the Valley route it is a fine shot and should be added to the Head band thread IF I CAN FIND IT
I will post it the scanner works hooray!
MARK he was at my wedding, his gift was a hoot, his girl thought that my girl wanted her man which was off and so off as to be odd, still a 'banker' with a capital 'B'she was his third really impressive women and I think the real thing at the time.
His first wife still stands out as the one true dream girl that I have ever met and she was some good friends ex-wife then too as I think I recall!?
Mark!
I think back,
and wonder after him ?
Is he a likely lurker on a Yosemit-centric wad site?
Is he past it and with middle age spread sailing the hi-seas with that super competitive trader-chick?
Hey four of us pulled that boat out of a back yard in Newburgh NY a Forty footer, the boat a sailboat that slept four in comfort nine in a pinch was free for the taking bu a long way from sea-worthy.
Mark called on my rigging and his over site two girls of limited understanding but tons of real muscle strength to pull that sad bich with a t out off of crumbling stacks that had started to let the keel touch ground.
What ever happened to the boat?
The girl ?
Mark?
I have no idea .
The reason for Facebook is near
but still not for me I can't see it,
it is an anathema to me.
So are selfies, I hurt myself but good trying to scuttle over to rocks not dialed in and up to a respectable high-point all in twelve seconds ,denoted by an ever quickening beep, beep, beep,
Shutter fire sound and fall down, no fall azz over nostril and jam strong index into a jelly knuckled claw!
Days of no rest later it is a throbber, an injury in the making. I will have to
Start slow and build up to harder climbing sends - I will have to follow a strict calendar this year.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 30, 2015 - 12:53pm PT
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Careful here the posts from "sweet William" verses Sour Dick, seem aimed at some sort of west coast beef who's kid it is really may not matter but do not get in the weeds with this one. He has been on my radar since his 1st post I do not know why?
this is my first ever on board communique thru the PM service. (I think ?)
T, I consider you a true pal thanx for seeing that Brian is okay
Email me at gnomeofthedibase@gmail.com I am a babbler talk your ear off if you call
so warned we should talk.
I sent that to T Hocking and looking at it it needs to be said here publicly
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Gary
Social climber
From A Buick 6
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Apr 30, 2015 - 02:53pm PT
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Pat Wood is kinda pretty. Have to like her name, too.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2015 - 03:32pm PT
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Gary dawg, she is, but Miss Betty Wool is much better looking and less stuck up after teaching and principaling at Snelling School for years.
Looks great in one of those "black dresses." For her age. Not in Peggy's league, though.
Some jerk tossed a D-cell in the creek.Of course, I did not take it out. It looks happy as the clams there. And I'd have gotten muddy shoes.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Sweet Virginia, meet Sweet William.
Sweet William, VA 23185
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Try as I might yours truly is still soloing rocks stupid like a noob ?
Chances are if I am going to bother to take a walk it will include or be destined to find some
Cliff or rock that I can climb on.. I find walking in the woods and climbing as moving meditation. The walk to the rock is a part of the meditation. The preparation is as important as the main event to reach a state of consciousness that allows me to feel the vibe. . Be. . !!!!
I seem to remember a climber who did doctoral studies in Tia Chi, and the results of the practice in the benefits to climbers at high altitude. J Gill?
Rusty Bailey?
It is that now my Dr who is maybe to old for me has me taking 80 ,not 20 &40 but
Two forty' of. Lipitor !
I am a solid and a bad cholesterol number of 138 So that it is genetic I do not binge on any in fact I do not eat any cheese ice cream red meat only lean skinless chicken, and an almost vegan diet though I do eat eggs, the fat is hard to understand and stand it makes me question
The world when I am hungry and fat at the same time more work and bread and water? I need to loose thirty pounds like
Last week but I can not seem to budge the scale.
Time has run out as that other thread has the red it,..!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 30, 2015 - 08:04pm PT
Try it out here:
http://how-old.net/#results
It was right on in age-guessing on this one. About 50-50 correct guessing on a random sampling of photos off my hard drive.
Credit: zBrown
And on another front:
Cow Analysis:
A pedometer tied to the leg of a cow and some real time data analysis not only can help in monitoring the health of the animal but also in detecting its estrus and even to control the gender of its offspring.
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"The cloud turns hardware into software; software into services, fully managed services; and data into intelligence. It makes you smart and it lets you free," Sirosh told the audience amidst applause.
Very useful too, in avoiding stepping in cow sheeit - I assume.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/machine-data-and-analytics-can-spur-new-phase-of-development-115050100115_1.html
Stolen right after the eighth post to the page thread I mean and I am always gonna B that, in z~s eyes why not ride the crashing wave
Oh into the rocks ?
Hmmm well then
Bail and duck under and swim hard in the other direction
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