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notapplicable
Mar 9, 2010, 1:35 AM
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kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: kachoong wrote: notapplicable wrote: Climbed the rock yesterday. Was fun. Climbed with a new cat I meet on the knob. He did his first lead belaying and lead his first route yesterday and didn't hesitate a bit. Could be potential there, which is good, I need a new partner now that my brother is in college and has no time climbing the climbs. Where's your nearest crag? Rag? What gym do you normally use? We used to head to the one in Richmond on occasion... it was decent. Old Rag is certainly the closest "real" climbing but there is a small outdoor spot right in Richmond called Manchester bridge. I haven't been to the gym in awhile but I do like Peak, it's one of the nicer and better run gyms I've climbed at. Where did you live that you were heading to Peak? Hampton Roads? I've heard of that bridge place, but never got there. When my wife and I went, we'd go to the gym, so as to have all sorts of options, even in bad weather. Yeah, from the Roads area it was 90 min drive. So we'd always make a 3/4 day of it.
Thats the way to do it if you don't have a membership. Climb for awhile, eat some diner and climb some more. I think a one day pass is up to $17 now so thats really the only way to make it worthwhile
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Gmburns2000
Mar 9, 2010, 2:33 AM
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Lazlo wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: kachoong wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: I've been busy all day. Just now getting productive, though. wrote for a couple of hours and sent out / prepared a few short stories for submission. If I get my fourth one out tonight then I'll be happy. How long is a short story supposed to be? Is it a rhetorical thing? Once upon a time there lived a short story. It died in a puddle of remorseful naiivity, never knowing how long it should have become. The end! It depends. My shortest one is 399 words, and my longest decent one is about 2700 words. I've written a couple that went about 8000 words, too, but I don't like them as much. Anything longer than that starts to get into the murky long short story vs. novella waters. I've written a novella, too. There are some publications that ask for what are called short-shorts. These are usally less than 500 words, but some can be less than 50 words. There's one publication that asks for a six-word short story. I kind of like the publications that ask for a one-sentence story. I've written one that was about 30 words long and I really liked it. Haven't submitted it anywhere, though. Gotta wait for that opportunity to present itself again. In general, the publication defines what is a short story. Most give a min and / or max word count. Wow... six word stories huh? That would be tough. One sentence stories could be kinda fun. Words are amazing things. One of my favorite writing styles is to intentionally break the rules. For instance; I wrote a story in first person based on someone who knew he was about to die and was writing his last mements. So the writting had tons of spelling and punctuation errors. The effect was to pull the reader in to a faster frenzied 'tempo' as they read; which meshed with the true tempo of the story in that moment.
yup. making the reader feel a certain way not by the meaning of the words themselves but by how they are intentionally organized goes a long way toward engaging the reader.
I love to write my fiction sometimes with really long runon sentences without commas or puncuation so that the reader feels tired by the end of the sentence and I do this because the character is doing something hard like working or running and the character gets tired so I want the reader to get tired, too. It's a great way to "prove" that something happened.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 9, 2010, 2:35 AM
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play.
rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should.
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donald949
Mar 9, 2010, 4:45 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: getting a little tired of rain on the weekends right about now. i always loved rain midweek and hated rain on the weekends. here's hoping things turn around for you once the good season comes into full swing. Weather is suposed to be sunny for the next 10 days. What to do? Maybe some climbing. Maybe get the family off to the mountains for some snow play. rock season is upon us. embrace it as you should.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 9, 2010, 9:40 PM
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sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by.
been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too.
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donald949
Mar 10, 2010, 12:32 AM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too.
nice
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Gmburns2000
Mar 10, 2010, 12:37 AM
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got a little bit of writing done, too.
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zeke_sf
Mar 10, 2010, 4:14 AM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too.
sounds like a painting
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Gmburns2000
Mar 10, 2010, 1:35 PM
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zeke_sf wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sitting at my uncle's in bar harbor. took a walk to day with my aunt's dogs. went around the Ocean Drive with my grandmother then we parked the cah on the wharf and sat and watched the world go by. been a good day so far. having steak for dinner, should be a good day later on, too. sounds like a painting
I'm actually Andrew Wyeth, and it pisses me off that people think I'm dead.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 11, 2010, 5:06 PM
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so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn!
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Gmburns2000
Mar 11, 2010, 5:06 PM
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I'm gonna predict the future - sunny comes back to the SPCI with a roar sometime in April or May.
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donald949
Mar 11, 2010, 5:28 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn!
Isn't that the third over 7?
Ouch
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donald949
Mar 11, 2010, 5:29 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: I'm gonna predict the future - sunny comes back to the SPCI with a roar sometime in April or May.
30K!
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Gmburns2000
Mar 11, 2010, 5:33 PM
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch
dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away.
this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger.
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donald949
Mar 11, 2010, 5:41 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away. this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger.
Well, when you have an 8.8, I guess 7.2 qualifies as an after shock. 
Its a log scale, so an 8 is 10 times the size of a 7.
Hmm, is that right now? 10x? I need to double check that.
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donald949
Mar 11, 2010, 5:45 PM
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Yep, dats write
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_scale
wikipedia wrote: The Richter magnitude scale, also known as the local magnitude (ML) scale, assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released by an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating the logarithm of the combined horizontal amplitude of the largest displacement from zero on a Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer output. So, for example, an earthquake that measures 5.0 on the Richter scale has a shaking amplitude 10 times larger than one that measures 4.0. The effective limit of measurement for local magnitude ML is about 6.8. |
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Gmburns2000
Mar 11, 2010, 5:48 PM
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away. this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger. Well, when you have an 8.8, I guess 7.2 qualifies as an after shock. Its a log scale, so an 8 is 10 times the size of a 7. Hmm, is that right now? 10x? I need to double check that.
yeah, but the people in the video hardly noticed it!
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donald949
Mar 11, 2010, 6:15 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away. this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger. Well, when you have an 8.8, I guess 7.2 qualifies as an after shock. Its a log scale, so an 8 is 10 times the size of a 7. Hmm, is that right now? 10x? I need to double check that. yeah, but the people in the video hardly noticed it!
Actually 90 miles is pretty far away.
But either way, its bigger than anything I've ridden through.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 11, 2010, 6:20 PM
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donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away. this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger. Well, when you have an 8.8, I guess 7.2 qualifies as an after shock. Its a log scale, so an 8 is 10 times the size of a 7. Hmm, is that right now? 10x? I need to double check that. yeah, but the people in the video hardly noticed it! Actually 90 miles is pretty far away. But either way, its bigger than anything I've ridden through.
i would have thought one that close to the surface would have been stronger, but it appears as if it wasn't bad.
there were two others right after it, both in the six range.
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donald949
Mar 11, 2010, 7:07 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: donald949 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: so another earthquake in chile - 7.2. damn! Isn't that the third over 7? Ouch dunno, but it seems that an earthquake in the seven range for them isn't so bad. there's a video on CNN of their presidential inauguration. it's outside and showing people mingling normally. at first you'd think, "what a stupid video," but then you notice that the phone wires are shakings. apparently, that's what a 7.2 feels like when it is 90 miles away. this one was only 6.5 miles underground, too, so you'd think it would be stronger. Well, when you have an 8.8, I guess 7.2 qualifies as an after shock. Its a log scale, so an 8 is 10 times the size of a 7. Hmm, is that right now? 10x? I need to double check that. yeah, but the people in the video hardly noticed it! Actually 90 miles is pretty far away. But either way, its bigger than anything I've ridden through. i would have thought one that close to the surface would have been stronger, but it appears as if it wasn't bad. there were two others right after it, both in the six range.
Well I haven't seen the video. But 90 miles is a long way away.
My folks lived 3 miles from the epicenter of the northridge earthquake. It wasn't an 8, but it sure got their attention. That one was felt over 200 miles away, maybe 250 miles.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 13, 2010, 1:34 PM
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Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks.
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Lazlo
Mar 13, 2010, 3:09 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks.
Wow. That does suck pretty bad.
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Lazlo
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Lazlo wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Jeremiah had his gear stolen while in NC while doing a guide cert exam. Damn that sucks. Don't know details yet, but still sucks. Wow. That does suck pretty bad.
My life would be over.
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Lazlo
Mar 13, 2010, 3:30 PM
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Lazlo
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My local ski spot.
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