From an early toiler, thanks for your painstaking work sorting Wainwright out.

Lähettänyt: affle 4:52 am (EST) May 23, 2008

You said:
Love your TimQuotes page! If you make the links look like this: <a href="/talktopic.php?topic=32873">/ta... then people accessing it from other language sites won't be redirected onto the .com site.

I know that and would like to do it, but then I can't (easily) copy them to an external page and run a link checker or other tools on them, so for my own sake I'll stick to absolute links.
So I'd rather that LT handled languages in some other way. I use Oracle Collaboration Suite at work and that takes a look at the browser language settings and servers tha same url to some with Montag, some with Monday and some with Mandag etc. I kind of like that, but there's more than one way to skin a cat and LT's way is also ok (except I like absolute links).

Lähettänyt: bnielsen 2:25 pm (EST) May 15, 2008

"people ask for in wishlists that aren't handled by a tag, such as being included or not included in recommendations"

on the wishlist thread, so as not to derail it, I thought I'd comment directly.

You can now get recomendations based off a tag - from your profile, recommendations, use a tag. I've added the tag "use" to those books I wish to have as a basis for recomnnendations. This works very well, and enables you to deselect the odd books that produce spurious recommendations.

Lähettänyt: reading_fox 4:20 am (EST) Mar 31, 2008

A new national book with a NW connection came out last month you might be interested in. It's not mountaineering, but it did happen up in the mountains east of Seattle. It's called White Cascade. I blogged about it if you're interested. Hope you're well. We're still suffering the rain. So what else is new, huh?

Lähettänyt: benjfrank 6:48 pm (EST) Mar 24, 2007

You were "actually surprised" I didn't have a book? LOL. I do have a bit too many, don't I? I have two other Robert Wood books, both on the Olympics, but not the one you mentioned.

I admire you determination to go from 'unable to run a mile' to climbing Rainier. I also understand that feeling when the summit looks so close. A couple years ago I took my daughter up to the Muir Snowfield and the top looked so close that she, wearing sneakers and shorts, pleaded to keep going. I had to convince her that beyond our current position it wasn't like just taking a stroll on snow.

FYI: I write a blog for my library. There's a link to it on my profile. You might enjoy two of the entries from a couple months ago. One is Seven Summits and the other is High Rocks and Ice.

What's Keswick like?

Lähettänyt: benjfrank 10:34 am (EST) Feb 11, 2007

Thanks for the additional covers! You'll notice that I've got a lot of books on the Northwest. It's my playground. I've never climbed a peak higher than 6000 feet and never been higher than the Muir Snowfield on Rainier (how many times have you climbed it?) but Rainier is my home away from home during the summer.

The park is closed now -- if you hadn't heard -- due to severe flood damage in early November. It rained 15 inches in two days, erased an entire campground, undermined several roads, and did some damage to Longmire.

Lähettänyt: benjfrank 7:31 pm (EST) Jan 8, 2007

That was indeed the cover of the Snoqualmie Pass book that I have. Thank you! I've been so busy entering my books that I haven't had a chance yet to scan any missing covers. There's one less to do, thanks to you.

Question: How does someone in Keswick become one of only two LibraryThingers to own a book on far-away Snoqualmie Pass? I noticed you have also have a book on Lou Whittaker, an amazing guy who lives just down the road a spell.

Lähettänyt: benjfrank 5:03 pm (EST) Jan 7, 2007