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are you worried about losing in deep snow, or off a gigantic cliff or something that would deem it unreachable? if deep snow is your concern, just get some bright cloth straps about a meter long, attach them to your bindings and tuck the rest into pants... but don't actually attach it to your ankle. now... when you fall, you'll spot the bright flag somewhere. you can buy them for quite cheap.

Originally Posted By: echineko I do not understand this thread at all! ttちち

it is very anti-social indeed. Interesting how a communication device can block communication, eh? I too find it sad when I see kids sitting around together and all typing away on their keitais. thankfully the bluetooth thing hasn't caught on here. When I went home last summer to the states I was shocked at all the people just sitting in restaurants with their families with bluetooth ear pieces in their ear. I saw a lot of people wearing them even though they weren't speaking... or listening.

phenomenal question. I'll let another answer that... (personally, there is no difference, but I don't go to church very often... like once every 5 years for cultural experiences. ie- I'm in another country or something. )

ttちち (tiny, tiny, ... , ...)　not that I've ever heard that. (I'll keep working on that. Perhaps FT should help... doesn't he have the post record?)

what's the snowjapan equivalent for jong?

Perhaps I mispoke. I meant online/internet based universities began in the mid-90's. Surely distance learning itself has been around for over a century.

the technology is there. It's in the news because it's actually becoming the norm. distance learning at the university level began in '98 in the U.S. and was really deemed to have a lack of credibility. by 2010, the United States Distance Learning Association predicts that every single college student will graduate with at least one course completed entirely online. Since around the year 2000 or so, virtually every educational journal has been also publishing their articles online. Most University libraries also have staff who spend their entire shift scanning and uploading the phys

http://www.english-trailers.com has prepared materials to accommodate short trailers. Kinda handy, but I ended up making my own materials anyway. But... you have to either have internet access in the classroom, or you have to download the trailer from someplace else. I don't know why, but I couldn't save the trailers from that site to my pc. I did a listening task with the Harry Potter trailer. But, I used PowerPoint for my pre-lesson and inserted the trailer into it... then projected everything onto a screen. Much better than the TV, imo.

I've used both the whisper lite international and the dragon fly. The dragon fly is noisy as hell, but it's super fast at bringing water to a boil. It also has a nice adjustment knob for controlling flame strength. my partner and I used to bring both. The whisperlite is definetely simpler, but there are two versions of it. get the international one which runs a wider gas line and offers exchangeable jets for multiple fuels, which the dragon fly also does.

are you nuts? I'm sorry, but we come from very different backgrounds. That to me defines POSH. f*cking chocolate.

looks fun. Beats my sunday. Although, my sunday was a pretty awesome start to the season, nonetheless. two days later, I'm still sore. oh, and the patrol may want to consider lowering that tower pad.

a hybrid that delivers 15% fuel benefit. lame.

How about this note I left a flat mate. "Thanks for f-ing your girlfriend where I brush my teeth. I'll wait for you to clean up the pubes."

I wish I had that when I was 7.

trigger = people. according to the American Avalanche Institute, 90% of all deaths by avalanche are the result of avalanches caused by people. edit* I don't actually have any reference for that... just remembering my old avi-cert days.

Originally Posted By: Fattwins kim jong launched missiles? fark i need to stop sking and painting! you don't remember his launch fizzeling out and crashing into the Japan sea? last summer?

that ginger-bread house if fricking hysterical.

Here we go again... where we ask the same questions- did they have beacons? shovels? yada yada... I pray for the families.

I personally have never seen that sign. Not that it doesn't exist, but...

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver I think tongues were most definitely lodged in cheeks I was hoping so. 78, thursday? If it breaks below a hundred, I'll be sending cash like there's no tomorrow. How long ago was that?

I have a coworker who used to call me gaijin-sensei. I had to ask him to stop about 4 times until he got a clue. does that count? I don't if he's racist as much as he is just a fricking moron. Even the students roll their eyes at him. (then again, most students pretty much roll their eyes at most their teachers anyway.) easy for me to shrug off knowing he won't be a part of my life much longer. I've heard people (foreigners of course) argue that the word gaijin itself immediately reflects racist undertones as the mere use of that word isolates the japanese into some eth

did people on a ski/snowboard forum just say Whistler is in America? Jesus. I'm not even going to correct you. skidaisuki, 108 to the US dollar isn't low? How long have you been in Japan? Obviously longer than myself... because 108 is a 3.8 year record. Last month I got roughly a 120 exchange with Lloyds. This month I got roughly a 110. I haven't seen rates this low in over 3 years. It shot from 116 to 121 in one day when Kim Jung Il launched his fizissles.

just another fag at....

I never clean my bases. If I ski in mud, I may hotscrape. (just scrape immediately behind the iron.) I wouldn't consider any cleaning chemicals unless I had skied through an oil puddle. I'm not as techy as I sound here. I wax every couple of days or so, but I never remove any wax because the temperature changed. I just apply the current conditions' requirements over the top and scrape away again. besides my base-prep, I only use two or three different waxes or some combination thereof to fit whatever the snow conditions are. And, usually they are pretty consistent.