Sip

All you can eat?

I'ma gonna take speelling lessins.

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How's that?

You want to deal with the cause ... the cause is, as you said, US dependence on oil. Las Vegas and people driving to it is just the effect. You'll be amazed at how quickly people will stop wasting things as costs go up! Gas is at $2.50 in cali and everyone is bitching and complaining ... I wonder how many will continue to buy H2s when gas is $10 a gallon. In the end, I think this will also take care of itself. As we run out of oil the costs will go up and we'll switch over to other sources. I am not too concerned with single catastrophies destroying the globe either (ala Hollywood). Chances of that are waaaaaaaaaaay too low to worry about.

A large chunk of the southern Nevada electric power comes from the Hoover dam which is a renewable hydroelectric power source. There are a lot better things one can do as opposed to blowing up Vegas. For one, you can ask all the Armo's from Glendale to stop driving there every weekend in their gas guzzling luxury BMW's, cadilac SUV's, and Hummer H2's.

I started working after the second half of my freshman year but not that much (mostly cash gigs on weekends). I didn't really start working till my second year. After 3rd year I had 20-30 hour a week jobs during the school year and full time summers and by masters time I was working 2 jobs at a time. However, once Ph.D. rolled around, I just didn't have any time to work although I was being paid as a graduate student researcher by my adivsor which was enough to get by. Since I was staying at home the whole time, I didn't have to worry about rent so that was a HUUUUUGE help ----> and that's how I had the cash to get into offroading which helped a lot in keeping me sane. The first couple of years going to UCLA I would take a bus for 6 hours (including bus stop waits)!!! 1 hour from home to a mid point. Then change bus and go to UCLA. Then a bus from UCLA to work in santa monica. Then reverse the process to get back home.

When and where is the next armenian all you can eat buffet night?

Armat I think you're on to something with that ... since it's a very proper term for it because I also tend to gag when I hear gangsta rap sometimes.

Well, it wasn't too bad ... but I did end up flopping it to one side http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/sip_flip_tn.jpg (click for bigger) But there was no damage to the jeep as you can see in the picture above with me in it from the driver side ... that's the next day after the flop.

Anytime storms! Maral, I don't know my mom's phone number. I could give you her email

http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/moab_rim1_tn.jpg http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/moab_rim2_tn.jpg http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/moab_rim3_tn.jpg http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/moab_sip_tn.jpg (click for bigger ones, especially the one at top right) A few more from today. These were some of the prettier shots but as you can imagine there was a lot of technical stuff as well ... not nearly as bad as the one up top though Sorry can't reply too much in detail as I'm still far from a good connection.

Harut, we ONLY stick to established trails that are legal to drive on, have signs and marks, and never venture anywhere off the trail. There are plenty of legal trails in moab that people have used for decades with well established routes and maps. Some of them go through private land and you have to pay a fee. Most of them are on public lands. They all have signs indicating whether it's ok for Jeep, ATV, mountain bike, or just for hiking. And as far as hardcore tree-hugging hippie environmentalists ... they can go flock themselves.

Are you up to date with the windows update patches and virus detectors? You may have one of these RPC viruses because they do exactly what you said ... they'll choke your resources and really slow things down. Although programs shouldn't crash.

That's all me I added a couple more.

http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/moab_roll1_tn.jpg http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/moab_roll2_tn.jpg http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/moab_leg_tn.jpg http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/moab_notch_tn.jpg http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/moab_high_tn.jpg http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/moab04/moab_arch_tn.jpg Click on the the pics for bigger versions... the small ones don't do the scenery any justice. More to come soon!

I'm fine ... thanks for asking I did wear my seat belt as usual ... I'll be posting pics slowly from the latest trip as I have a few more days to go still until I get back to a good connection. Look for some teaser pics in the sports and recreation section.

Nope ... there weren't any cops for miles

Always wear your seat belts.

bet you if you were chinese, you'd have found the link already

It's funny I don't even have a printer at home. I just rarely have the need to print anything. I have pretty much moved myself to being almost fully paperless.

Something like what? I haven't followed color printers for a long time and they always seems to be limited by high per-page costs rather than quality. But I can just imagine how good the picture looks on that one you are talking about.

Nice! About how much does a full 8.5x11 color photo page cost to print with that printer?

You and Edward posted at the same time. He didn't see your post probably