I for one am super excited for the follow-up post where we all learn why it's awesome and laudable for a woman to reject a man outright because he's bald but it's not ok for a man to reject a woman outright because she's fat.

I don't car what the police report says, Vince Wilfork lifted the car off the woman all by himself. #wilforklift

Half Dome is higher above the valley floor, but the bottom 2500 feet is just very steep hiking. The actual technical rock routes are only 1500 to a little over 2000 feet of vertical.

Still pretty hardcore.

That's what's so hard to explain to people. I climb 5.12 ish, and when you explain that the easiest routes are 5.0 and the hardest are 5.15, 5.12 seems near the top. The leap from 12 to 14 is just unfathomable to me though.

There are seven routes up the Northwest Face of Half Dome (the front side), and all of them have been free-climbed. The most difficult is 2200 feet long and rated at 5.12b.

It's not a first for El Cap — several other routes have gone free — but you're basically right. The photographers were moving up and down the wall using almost exclusively ropes, ascenders, and various other "aid" techniques. Most of the routes done on El Cap are done using a mixture of free climbing on the easier…

Here's a weirder one: The Chiefs lost to the 2-win Titans and the 2-win Raiders, but beat the 11-win Patriots and the 10-win Seahawks.

Perhaps both Chris Pratt and the raptors are running from the SuperDino™. Like in wildfires when wolves and deer all flee simultaneously with no effort to eat the deer.

In Colorado we have a handy dandy shortcut.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. One of the best layman's science books I've ever read.

Calling Tolkien the King of Tropes seems a little akin to accusing Shakespeare of using cliches. Didn't he invent half of these?

If you think "frontside" refers to which end of the board is facing forward, stop writing about surfing.

This is the quandary I think of whenever I hear complaints about female playable characters in video games.

Excuse me, but where the fuck is Denver? All three stadiums (the Avs and Nuggets share the Pepsi Center) are walking distance from downtown.

That took 96 seconds. Roughly twice as long as it takes a HUMAN BEING to run that far.

I'm with you. Anything that hasn't been done in 100+ years, no matter what it is, is inherently interesting.

What kind of monster puts banana peppers on a meatball sub?

You are the entire problem.

I think you mean a negative correlation. But well played.