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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jul 15, 2006 - 03:06am PT
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There was a tale told of a man with a claw for a hand who escaped from jail, he was last seen in these very woods ....
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Jul 15, 2006 - 07:57am PT
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I have one hand that is claw-like.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Jul 15, 2006 - 01:47pm PT
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I'm koo koo for human oddities.
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Jul 15, 2006 - 04:05pm PT
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Jeeze LEB, why would you assume it has always been that way?
Jeeze locker, when are you going to kill this mutant thread? I was hoping you would follow through with your bumb thret.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jul 15, 2006 - 04:22pm PT
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Monkeys are climbers, aren't they? And if you put 1,000 monkeys in front of computers for 1,000 years, they might not produce the complete works of William Shakespeare - but there's a good chance they'd produce something like...
I'd never heard the monkey's paw story before, despite a misspent youth hearing scary stories around the fire at scouts and camp. My guess is that it's like all the very best horror stories - it suggests, then leaves it up to the reader's imagination. And what we individually imagine is often pretty lurid.
Anders
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jul 15, 2006 - 04:57pm PT
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My favorite verision of 'The Monkey's Paw is Laurie Anderson's on Strange Angels. All of the feelings, awe, and atmosphere, while leaving the details to you own imagination.
Trying to recollect the claw story.
"Everyone comes to the freak show, but nobody smiles when they leave." -The Residents, from Freak Show.
Jay-backfromboulderingareyouguysgonnspendallofthis100ºdaystuck in frontofamonitormaybethereAreworseideas-bro
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Jul 15, 2006 - 08:42pm PT
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locker - the online equivalent of a cat in a microwave oven.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jul 16, 2006 - 05:06pm PT
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any cooler today? it's (selectively) sub 100 in NorCal.
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johnx01
Trad climber
UK
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Jul 16, 2006 - 05:14pm PT
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Hello LEB
Today I climbed, I stretched my old body between wide gritstone breaks, the sun shone on my back, I remembered the strength and suppleness of my youth, later we bouldered, I grappled with holds determined to spit me off and I pondered the nature of Lois. I am hooked, I've not seen your kind before......
Now to business, I would bet the shirt off my back on DMT's instincts and yet LEB you flatter, charm and soothe me, like a lecturer marking my essay, you talk of 'insight' and 'theory' yet I feel like a small child being rocked back to sleep after waking from a nightmare - 'there, there sleep little person, all will be safe'.
Lois, your processors are lightening fast, your databanks are packed with the minutiae of a female's life, your grammatical ruleset produces posts of poise, insight and intelligence of the human condition and yet......
What is it that flares old Dingus's nostrils and sets his hackles so? Just as the T2 outstriped the T1 in technological prowess they were both easily detected by a good 'ole guard dog.
Captain Hartouni is down and taken, his posts are no longer reliable, I fear those perl spider returned with a deadly payload and did for him, Perl is no answer to your technology.
You swat my first guess away, so far from the 'mark', yet you imply there is a 'mark' to be closer to....
One day Lois, one of your data addresses will smash the stack guard, your thread control cache will become corrupted, you shared memory will lock a trillion zeros and ones frozen in silicon. You will freeze mid post, 'zombied' by the O/S, your resources marked out for the 'garbage collectors'
LEB.trl -s supertopo.com
will be no more.
That evening 'ole Dingus will get extra meat in his bowl and a few more of those crunchy biscuits he loves, maybe even a saucer of sweet milky tea. When it's dark he'll take himself out back and make his way up that low, long hill and howl at the moon till dawn.
locker - i do apoligize, I have failed to answer you question. I have no problem with non-climbers posting here, if they are interesting and challenging I think we as climber should listen and challenge ourselves to formulate our answers. Respect them yet uphold our own crede.
This is an excellent forum, may I stay around for a while?
-John
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Richard
Trad climber
Bend, OR.
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Jul 16, 2006 - 05:52pm PT
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A larger percentage of climbers probably lurk and DON'T post on this site, compared to non climbers who do!
there's you 200th locker
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jul 16, 2006 - 06:02pm PT
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201, I didn't get it either, Lois
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jul 16, 2006 - 09:30pm PT
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Locker: What if the climbers on ST were not posters? Then we'd really be in trouble.
I believe the magic number is actually 666, not 400 or 200. Though 222 has a nice ring to it.
Anders
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 16, 2006 - 10:22pm PT
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Happy birthday Janet!
it's all good, no matter if you are a climber or not.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jul 16, 2006 - 11:19pm PT
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Happy birthday Janet! There is more to life than climbing, but not everbody can put up with climbers!
Was John X building to a punchline that didn't come?
I'm sure soemone will wade in on the Yabo thread, Lois, at this point I'll defer to those that knew him better than I did. Watch your email.
I don't think it was that great a day for climbing here in the west if you weren't in the mtns. 100º+ in the Bay Area, that's hot for here, They predicted the same in Yosemite (just means you gotta know where to go)114º in palm springs, etc. I presume most of those Josh-oids have AC, don't know how locker does it!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 17, 2006 - 01:01am PT
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LEB - you know I'm such a sucker for this sort of question... but I will resist until I complete two important things I have due this next week.
The following weekend I expect to spend climbing, and the week after that the Red Sox are in town... and I'm at the games.
I'll try to fit it in, but don't expect anything before August.
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johnx01
Trad climber
UK
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Jul 17, 2006 - 04:31am PT
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Aw come on Lois, I was just pulling your chain!
I was playing with an idea that you were a computer program running on a machine out there on the internet, a very sophisticated program, yet I fear I have disturbed you, knocked you off kilter as it were. I am sorry, you are no troll, but where has that 'ole dog Dingus gone?
I find forums fascinating, in such an info sparse medium, every letter, space or capitalization counts. We all haemorrhage information about ourselves all the time with every keystroke we make - that is why trolling is quite hard.
I accept my homework assignment, I shall read the Yabo thread(of whom I have heard) and report back shortly.
Sorry my last post confused you, I spent too long thinking about it and it got a bit out of hand, amazing tho' isn't it, both my posts together were a total of 3461 bytes(that's miniscule). I was initially adrift, yet in that tiny amount of data our positions became reversed.
Speak later
-John
Jaybro wrote:
Was John X building to a punchline that didn't come?
No, just rambling.....
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Jul 17, 2006 - 05:22am PT
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Ed, I had alot of respect for yo till yous answered to being a Red Sox fan. Yous now @ the end of the line.
Janet, Yous a cancer? mines the 14th. Happy B Day Girl.
Cheers.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
St. Louis
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Jul 17, 2006 - 08:30am PT
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A belated Happy Birthday to you Janet. I was asleep when you posted that last night. It was my mom's birthday as well so that makes it extra special!
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wootles
climber
Gamma Quadrant
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Jul 17, 2006 - 11:55am PT
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Ed,
I don't know if it is possible without a huge amount of effort and time but I think it would be really cool to see a total number of key strokes per user along with the average number of key strokes per post.
Some posts are quick and to the point while others seem to drone on endlessly.
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426
Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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Jul 17, 2006 - 03:29pm PT
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I got it.
You had to watch Outfoxed for the answer...
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