Word: hacks
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...liked to hack Steve,” said Klug, who admitted to pranks such as switching Benton’s new Macintosh computer with an old PC and stitching fake fur to the underarms of his coat...
...whose bathwater he would have declined to drink." His life becomes a struggle to hang on to the norms of civilized behavior. Wrestling with shadows, Xan reels and staggers through some paralyzingly funny satirical subplots involving Henry IX, the baffled and ineffectual king of England; a shameless tabloid hack named Clint Smoker; and Joseph Andrews, a master criminal so hardened he finds himself committing felonies even in his alibis...
...shark--in his case, literally. The thing that horrified him most when putting the collection together wasn't the amateurishness of the early panels or the subpar eyeballs, but the slew of shark-frenzy jokes, which were a little too close to one another. That fear of becoming a hack, in the end, is what made him determined never to draw again. The one exception might be a possible cover for the upcoming New Yorker cartoon issue, which his publisher has bullied him into. It's a better fit for him than family newspapers, which sometimes wouldn...
...There's plenty of us who are cognizant of these issues, but you get knuckleheads everywhere," says Hack. Hueco Tanks State Historic Site, 30 miles northeast of El Paso, Texas, for example, was a popular destination for climbers until graffiti was found in the early '90s on some of the park's ancient rock art, and park officials severely restricted climbing. "Hueco was a wake-up call," says climber Tim Janke, 42. "If we fail to be good stewards, we'll lose what we have...
...afternoon in Camp 4, nobody has managed to get up Midnight Lightning. Hack heads back to his tent. "Yeah, climbing is an impact sport, but so is hiking or horse riding," he says. Of course, horses have no desire to conquer cliffs like El Capitan. Only humans do that...