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I don't think the comment was meant to be statistically accurate.

Actually, they were using shock-absorbing lanyards, so, assuming they were using then correctly, a fall would result in a deployed shock pack and a dangling climber. Rescue from th…

As if it were some mind-numbing mundane task. On the contrary, whatever time you spend running will be some of the most alive parts of your life.

Gotta love the handful of random grey dots lost within the mosh pit. I think we've all been there.

I do this all the time. It is more UNIX-y, and thus pops into my head more readily, than grep searchterm file

Actually, that cartoon is part of an elaborate book (landoflisp.com) meant to school beginners on Lisp.

Today, I am in New Mexico hanging off a wind turbine blade (that's what I do for work), when I noticed a strange looking balloon in the sky off to the north west. I radioed my grou…

Honestly - the guy should apply his thoughtfulness and drive toward not eating so many hamburgers. There is a good reason why the insurance companies want to see that information. …

I first heard this on a long, lonely and windy midnight drive through rural Vermont, and I've been a fan ever since.

Take that, John McCain. What a MAVERICK!

> What really upset me was that there was practically no surrounding discussion of the intuition behind the algorithm. Behind all the rigor of mathematics lies very simple and powe…

Someone posted a workout that purported (incorrectly) to be the one used by the actors in 300. The post was deleted before I could offer a correction, so here's a description of th…

This jumped out at me and I want to make a correction. The actors in that film trained at a gym called Gym Jones, run by Mark Twight, one of the strongest American alpine climbers …