I was his neighbor, in fact Das Bus and I were on either side of him and neither one of us had any complaints. And this year just like I did last year I'll have my genny running 24x7x7 and the only reason people said anything about it last year was when they asked to tap into it or they didn't real...

Point is it's a terrible waste, and rude to your neighbours, to run a 1000 watt generator all night -- even at its lowest setting -- to power a device that uses 12 watts on average. It's bad in just about every possible way. Running the CPAP alone on the generator would be wasteful of energy compar...

My wife uses a CPAP. In 2003 we powered it using a small, super-quiet Yamaha generator (EF1000is), which worked flawlessly. This year, I'm still bringing the generator for other purposes, but am planning to run the CPAP from the car battery, then use either the generator or the car engine to keep th...

Excellent post, excellent story, and excellent strategy, Chai Guy! Good for you!

technopatra wrote:

Patience wrote:At the Matt Gonzalez party, Larry said it was "Another World."

???

I believe he meant "an otherworld" tho that's not the actual name.

Good. "Another World" sounds like a soap opera.

(I can't vouch for the veracity of this, as it came from a mailing list (albeit a pretty well-regarded one) and not straight from the Burning Man organization. However, if you're just chomping at the bit to get started dreaming up your theme-related projects, here you go! -- Flux) Vault of Heaven In...

And as much as I dislike shrub, his trip to Baghdad impressed the hell out of me. I'm glad to see our troops were not forgotten! I confess that I still dislike him as much as ever, even after he spent untold taxpayer dollars flying all the way to Iraq to spend a whopping two hours with a whopping s...

Patience wrote:Excuse me? In what reality can a person eat four pounds of meat and not feel full?

Apparently on the "Donny & Marie Osmond Show" in 2000, or at least that worked for Richard LaFeare.

Details here (requires free registration, as they say).

Hi bearsnest, I have a couple of suggestions for you, if you're interested. First, you should consider contacting the Black Rock Arts Foundation (I'm sure there's a link on http://www.burningman.com/) and looking into the possiblity of getting a grant. That's what they're there for! Second, it would...

I want 2 or 3 kids before I'm done, if it's possible for me to have any. She wants the same but in this day and age I'm playing it very cautious. I don't want to be just a child support check for her and never see my kids...I've seen that happen all around me and I don't want it to be my story. Don...

Drugs are like kids: Just when you're sure you've had enough for a lifetime, you get a hankering for some more. (I have a 20-year-old and a 7-year-old; I know whereof I speak.) You think they're gone for good, and the next day they're at your door again. (Hey, where are those flashbacks I was promis...

That link would qualify as one of the worst wastes of bandwidth currently online. It totally sucks. That's why I specifically told you NOT to click it. But did you listen to me? Nooooo, of course not. Well, I hope you've learned your lesson, young man. When Flux tells you not to do something, it's ...

Peanutbutter San Bernardino. Sounds like a recipe popular in the Inland Empire. Egads. Just the fact you know the term "Inland Empire" makes me very suspicious of you, Flux. I know, it scares me too. I might as well out myself now: I grew up behind the Orange Curtain. In my opinion, Orange County a...

Speaking of smileys...

Don't click this link!

DE FACTO wrote:Hamster 166 Place.

If only you'd lived at 69...

Blenderhead wrote:Peanutbutter San Bernardino.

Sounds like a recipe popular in the Inland Empire.

You should have used "big" after "such a" in both of those...

alice wrote:ouch.

{hugs}

Princess Bernardine

Badger wrote:And another. Pyramid Lake with the playa in the upper right portion of the image.

In other news, an extremely large woman dropped a blue bikini top in the Nevada desert.

Kinetic II wrote:I liked the rip snorting fire breathing flame your ass to the ground Badger.

Someone told me that Isotopia is taking over the flaming so Badger can take a break.

I confessi never stole a damn thing from strouds and regret never taking anything! they had these day glow vibrating stuffed plush bugs. I wish I had pocketed one every damn day and given them out at raves! That reminds me of a story you might enjoy. I had a friend who worked at a jewelry store. Th...

I confess that this has turned into the most boring thread on the e-playa. C'mon, people! I fucking STOLE something and then ADMITTED it. Bragging about a sexual conquest, real or imagined, is not a confession, no matter how you phrase it. NOW, FESS UP! But sex is the only naughty thing I do! Yeah,...

ramen wrote:I've always gotten a woody from Lamp Chop.

Lamp Chop? Is that what you get when you cross "The Clapper" with a Kung Fu movie?

Angry Butterfly wrote:Wish I had ever had enough to be "done" with it. I've only tripped twice!

Well, we'll just have to remedy that! <sticking foot out in front of AB>

If you want to check out tribe.net, you'll find lots of burners (the Burning Man tribe (community, affinity group, whatever) has 1,023 members), including a few people who are active here.

Duh. Thanks.

(I did a Google search and came up with a bunch of stuff in Welsh, and the acronym dictionary here had no listing for it. I thought you were getting fancy on us, AB!)

Angry Butterfly wrote:That teacher really needs to mhob.

mhob?

Even if some of affg's typed comments could be interpreted as racist under some common definition, I think it's tedium at best and harassment at worst to single anyone out with a thread dedicated to their presumed failings. It's entirely different from engaging them in the context of a conversation...

III wrote:the people who really have it exhibit the symptoms to a degree which those only claiming to have it can't even imagine.

That happens a lot with depression, too.