[pct-l] DEET

[ryan at hack.net (Ryan Brooks)]

>In 2002, there was also a bit of a hippychick, who in
>a smug effort to distinguish herself from the crowd,
>proclaimed her ability to just "commune" with the
>mosquitos, based on the fact that she was from Alaska,
>and therefore she knew mosquitos (in her defense, I'm
>repeating something I heard from Tangent, who heard it
>from her, but knowing the person who made the claim,
>it doesn't surprise me).
>  
>
Small world, perhaps?  I met a girl like this in Alaska about 8 years 
ago in Denali.  And she was in De-nile as well:

Told me that she liked to be bitten because it feeds the mosquitos, 
which feeds the birds, and so on.  All this while I was DEETed up and 
wearing a bug hat.

-Ryan