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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 18, 2015 - 08:09am PT
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Analyze that IT is not safe to go INTO
the DEEP END,
Even though she knows me biblically
and I fit into Large pantz.
Only G .O .D .Z can ever go there
where HE doze lay in mind and wait
iz what iz mine gone too
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see what Idid there
Hope I didn't
scare away
the Pansy knot (just the play on wordz)
Finest working engineeer MORE
TUNAFISH
PLEASE , can not tune a . . .
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well that and back to the future
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 08:29am PT
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Tuna Fish Taco.
YAK!
Sushi Taco.
Might like that.
MooseParticles, R U up for a trip to the South Bay and some surf-riding?
And Gnome, I checked out young Otto's list.
I got a beef with #18. H.H. Braun, et al. "Emittance Growth and Energy Loss due to Coherent Synchrotron Radiation in the Bunch Compressor of the CLIC Test Facility (CTF-II)" Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams, 3,122402 (2000).
But I'll call Doc Hartouni and we'll see about a field trip to do some Phys. Rev. and possibly write up a full-scale TR with pix and vids whenever he can get away from his duties as a climber, family man, and guidebook editor.
I got a kick out of wigglers, though.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 08:33am PT
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A rope coil, sure, but a coil to generate electricity? Pshaw!but looky there, he's trying to generate low current electricity with a nylon runner as a coil.
Call Ben Mr. Franklin.
Call Tom Signore Mad Volta.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 18, 2015 - 08:39am PT
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Homey PaLY DAT! there is a more intimate version but this is after all of that so they ,the Band are much tighter here than there[Click to View YouTube Video]
from the novice thread after your pic was added this is his first post to the Cart on wheels selling some inter Rastafari mexican wrapped food,
@MouseFrom, you've got me all distracted like a dog spotting a squirrel. I have heard that there is/was a guy who specialized in establishing 'rappel routes' in Yosemite. Is one of the fellows in this photo, that guy? Not that I have a strong interest in rappel routes per-se. I don't like rappelling much at all. Ironic I guess, for making my first post in this forum to ask a question about rappelling.
Rich Jones
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 08:42am PT
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Need to split to serve the cause of justice and the American Way by showin' up for Jury Duty this mornin'.
Save me a lemon. I'm either gonna make lemonade or a voltaic cell when I get back.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 11:15am PT
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"If you’re faced with a big question and the answer is not Yes!!!!" then the answer is no.
-One of the McNamaras (Chris or Robert Strange)
McNamara [the strange one]was a numbers guy. Appointed the U.S. secretary of defense when tensions in Vietnam rose in the early 1960s, he insisted on getting data on everything he could. Only by applying statistical rigor, he believed, could decision makers understand a complex situation and make the right choices. The world in his view was a mass of unruly information that—if delineated, denoted, demarcated, and quantified—could be tamed by human hand and fall under human will. McNamara sought Truth, and that Truth could be found in data. Among the numbers that came back to him was the “body count.”
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 11:56am PT
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January 5, 1967
Inaugural message of Ronald Reagan, California’s 33rd governor, delivered during ceremonies in the Rotunda of the State Capitol at midnight.
Just before the swearing in, the new governor turned to U.S. Senator George Murphy — a former movie song-and-dance man —
and said “Well George, here we are on the late show again.”
The new governor placed his hand on Father Serra’s bible as he was sworn in by State Supreme Court Justice Marshall F. McComb.
50th Anniversary. Opens February 20 & Closes December 4.
Help wanted, no bullwink.
No flower children need apply, they need reliable, steady workers.
"Will they let us climb the Palace of Fine Arts, dude? There are some great Honnolding ledges and edges on that dome."
Tad, I was sent home and am to return at 1:15 or they'll come arrest me.
What a pain.
I stopped off at the Courthouse Museum to speak with the director about a Particular photo and she was looking at the book about the Panama Pacific Expo.
There are several vintage Yosemite images in it.
I asked her did she get it from the library...it's an antique belonging to Mrs. Cunningham, wife of Big Jim who pretty much runs the place because he's Board of Directors and major contributor and his family's owned the Cunningham Ranch since around 1855 when Merced County divorced Mariposa County. It'a right on the borderline, like the old Fremont house at the former town of Union out past LeGrand.
The museum is sponsoring an exhibit on the exposition sometime this year...Double whammy-Double whammy.
100 years ago the world gathered in San Francisco and they built the Treasure Island in a place R.L. STevenson knew well.
And they did come to see the exposure, using only the ferries and cable cars. And the railroads and the shipping lines.
Back before the Cool Bridges thread, Nash Bridges, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle Gang.
Some copy from the intro to this fun old booklet:
"Think of some of the glories that await you at the end of the golden trail:
An expenditure of fifty million dollars in construction.
Fifty millions more in the intrinsic value of exhibitions.
Six hundred and twenty-five acres of Palaces and gardens entrancingly beautiful.
Eleven great Exhibit Palaces crowded with objects of interest from every portion of the globe.
Spacious courts and miles on miles of ornamented avenues.
More than two hundred and fifty groups of statuary by world’s masters.
Huge mural paintings, masterpieces by the greatest artists.
A Million Dollar Auditorium in San Francisco’s new Civic Center.
An art palace, the architecture of which is more beautiful than any part of ancient Greece, and which contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of pictures ever collected and shown in one place.
Near two score Pavilions of the States and Foreign Nations vying with each other in architecture, displays and hospitality.
Sixty-five acres of amusement concessions, several of which cost $250,000 to build.
An Aviation Field for the contest of the air and athletic sports.
A Drill Ground, where ten thousand troops may drill at one time.
A Livestock Exhibit embracing the entire world’s best birds and animals.
An electrical illumination at night absolutely unique and unequaled."
I want a copy, or to at least permission to scan the pages. I guess I had better call Big Jim.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 02:22pm PT
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Ticket to ride.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 02:33pm PT
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Mules in the History of Yosemite Project
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 02:52pm PT
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Carleton Watkins (U.S.A., 1829-1916)
The Yosemite Valley from the “Best General View”
1866
From the album Photographs of the Yosemite Valley
Albumen print
Lent by Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries
But wait, there's more.
http://artblart.com/tag/yosemite-valley/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 05:23pm PT
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I could not make this shot work as a color image.
This sucks.That's some feat of Mr. Bunyan, the ArtBlart blogger from Australia.
Imagine determining all the things he must while having to see the photos upside down in Down Under Land.
Seriously, thanks for the link. I noticed several iconic images that came immediately into my memory...
the Edward Weston shot of the bell pepper was the most jarring. Zap!
I did not see Tom Frost's name mentioned once, nor any climbing photographer,
but Mr. B. is more concerned with the dead than the quick--
maybe his shutter speed's too slow?
But of course, climbing is an arcane activity, with very small numbers of people who actually look at climbing shots.
There are between seven and eight billion people alive today,
each with their own tastes, or none,
or whose taste may be only found inside their mouths,
who might be impressed if some images of climbers came their way.
I did not see one mention of George Fiske that I recall.
Babble babble babble.
When each pic is worth one thousand words, a person should just STFU
and look and even look again, then fade away.
I WONDER why it is that we humans need to assign "best" or "greatest" to artists.
Each talented person who creates images has a different appeal for each person who views their work.
It is mostly a subjective game, though the mechanics and precision do count for those
who are convinced that they are experts.
I like Ram Dass' advice, which is that each of us is his own guru.
Each of us is presidential material, in that case, because WE are the DECIDERS,
not some academic or critic.
Their input is important in establishing our own values, however.
One needs a reference point or baseline or standards and teachers are there for such.
I am being schooled by some experienced and talented people here at the kindergarten.
The painters seem to get more oohs and aahs because of the nature of their games,
while we photographers, poor devils,
must toil on the keyboard once the shot's filed, suffering carpal tunnel and bony fingers.
It's a twitch here, a twist there, and a bit more saturation overall, OK!
It's still a crap shoot sometimes, unless it's been a shot in the planning for a long time.
By the Unknown Photographer.
Dude gets around as much as Watkins did.Cheap printing is as cheap printing does.
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 18, 2015 - 05:54pm PT
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Well snowed most of the day and it is going to be down below zero Fahrenheit tonight. I am huddled near my one tiny electric heater trying to stay warm. Kinda like being in the cave again without the sound of Yosemite Falls. Or in Toad Hall where I used to bake chocolate chip cookes so we could stay warm and melt the ice off the ceiling above our bed.
My son adopts homeless people. There are three or four of them camped out in his room eating up the homemade apple pie I made this evening. Cheers
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 06:13pm PT
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Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me ?
It's alright Maru, I'm only bleeding
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 06:21pm PT
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Maru - 20 million plus views. Taco views - unknown
Special guest appearance at 2:40
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 07:05pm PT
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Gypsy...
So cold in China the birds don't sing.--Leo Kottke song
Your cave was a niche.
You belonged there then.
It's natural that you hark back to that time as a comparison to today.
"The word niche as ecologists use the term, has a twofold meaning.
It is an organism's address, the territory it occupies within an ecosystem....
Niche also refers to an organism's occupation, what it does to make a living at its address.
Bees, for example, make honey for themselves by visiting flowering plants
and returning to the hive laden with pollen.
Correspondingly, people visit Yosemite to make an emotional living.
While there they gather the kind of pollen that will sustain and expand the human spirit.
Human beings track nourishment in Yosemite almost exclusively by sight.
Sound plays a role occasionally, and the sense of smell, so effective
for other animals, is hardly ever used.
Views and vistas are what these hunters are after."
--Introduction to Yosemite As We Saw It by David Robertson
Overdose of catnip.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 08:19pm PT
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Pretty durn fast!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 19, 2015 - 02:22am PT
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