I don't know. I wrote to them well in advance and never heard back. I read that as "you're not welcome at our event", thought "their privilege and their loss" and moved on, and had an awesome day doing things that had absolutely nothing to do with Burning Man. I'm sorry you were disappointed, Rosebu...

So I'm wondering if anyone knows is the BMorg has any pre-existing thoughts about what sorts of eventualities would lead them to limit ticket sales, I believe that it was Actiongrl who proposed what should have been a perfectly reasonable alternative to ticket caps. If there were other burns going ...

The viscosity of semen is pretty damn high. You are conflating two very different issues - that of surface tension and that of viscosity. For example, one can easily see that laundry detergent is far more viscuous than water, simply by pouring a cap of the stuff into one's wash. By doing so, one sl...

FUCK! I have this coolass cricket sound effect that would be so perfect embedded into this thread that's going nowhere, but I can't do that because the new ePlaya doesn't let one use HTML.



FUCK!

Total clarity, guys: I'm not one of the organizers on this one, so if you have questions, concerns, praise or bitter condemnation to share regarding this event, I'm not your man. I'm just somebody who found some information free floating around, and thought he might as well forward it to a place whe...

One other thing - wouldn't this be better listed under Regionals and Events?

Vikingyouth seems to have accidentally left out the directions to the event, so I did a Googlegroups search and pulled up this post by Marley , which should help. From: Marley - view profile Date: Thurs, Jul 20 2006 12:42 am Email: "Marley" <jmarley@rcn.com> 7/12/06 Chicago Decomp Meeting Minutes At...

Yes, except if each player in the team is only playing for ten moves, how does that become a problem? You're assuming a degree of consistancy not really found among playa denizens as a whole if you think there will be a constant influx/outflux of players. People will play for a full ten moves, then...

Well, I'm just basing this off personal experience with a chess set somebody had out there last year. (3-4 ft tall metal pieces, funky blacklights at night, looked cool as all hell) I'd start playing against one person, who'd wander off after ten or so moves. Never did play a full game against anyo...

spectabillis wrote:i just think others would complain after i club them with a mace.

Inventory ... one nerf mace for Spectabillis, ...

For that matter, most folks don't have the patience for chess in BRC. Even the most stable individual gets a case of ADD on the playa. "Ooh look, shiny!" Simple solution - tag team chess. One person plays for ten turns, and then gets tagged and replaced by the next member of his team. While one pla...

Here's the concept: Electric motor scooters, (the kind you ride standing up), turned into chess pieces, with the playa as our board. Aren't we energetic? Just mount big styrofoam pieces on the backs of Roombas set for low-pile carpet, and relax with a Martini. Do I feel a tugging sensation? Could i...

The lone ePlayan surveys the desolate virtual wasteland that is a once active thread. Is there no life left, he wonders. He calls out, only to hear his echo quickly muffled by a duststorm blowing past. Somewhere to his left, he can barely make out the form of a rook, half-eroded away by time. He see...

Wish I could provide scooters, but I can't do that. I've considered doing it with bikes, but it doesn't seem right to have the pieces sitting down. How to make the board? Two ideas: 1) sketch it in the playa... it's temporary anyway. 2) turn the city into a giant board... a bit anarchistic, you hav...

Thanks!

funny how a person on a public payroll nearing a cozy retirement may sudenly change his mind Yeah, but that was after the black helicopters stopped shooting particle beams at his tin foil hat. Common misconception. The Illuminati don't use black helicopters. That would be the Trilateral Commission....

A thread for spottings of likely spammers, a chance to help the mods knock these guys out of commission a little sooner.

My first spotting: k4C7OU4l, just joined, note the commercial homepage. Looks a little fishy.

After corresponding by e-mail ... Sigh. Conspiracy theories. Here's one thing to factor into your calculations. The fuel from the impacting jet wouldn't have been simply poured across the floor to spread evenly, it would have come flying in at a few hundred miles per hour aboard the jet it was on, ...

dragonfly Jafe wrote:There are so many faults with this premise, not the least of which the building DID fall. What caused it if not the official mechanism?

I did, on behalf of my employers - the Bavarian Illuminati. But perhaps I've already said too much.

tisha2 wrote:yeah....warm *running* water, without all the engineering and gray-water drama.

what a gift we have in the 'real' world, eh?

Gol' durn kids don't know a good time anymore! (grumble, grumble)

Curmudgeon, Sounds like you've come up with an idea for a smaller version of this: Yes, that's the geometry I had in mind. I wonder if steam power is the direction they should be trying to go in with that, though. Getting water hot enough to warm a bath is one thing. Getting fluid hot enough to rai...

Curmudgeon, Sounds like you've come up with an idea for a smaller version of this: Yes, that's the geometry I had in mind. I wonder if steam power is the direction they should be trying to go in with that, though. Getting water hot enough to warm a bath is one thing. Getting fluid hot enough to rai...

...to bring to BRC with you, what would it be? Me? Hot water. Yeah. Ahhhhh... I'm thinking that might not be impossible. Take all of this with a grain of salt, because this isn't really my field of engineering and I'm sure that somebody else could come up with something much better, but I'll take a...

Thanks, Fishy... and thank you for calling WTF, the voice of the Apokilipse, at 99.9 on your FM dial... Our next caller is Lucas - What's on your mind? You have other considerations, tho... and these are ALL important - All good points. I'll add another, just in case word hasn't gotten completely a...

Just signed up as "Curmudgeon". Studying engineering, been to Burning Man once, felt I'd been more a spectator than a participant, aim to change that in the future. Studying to be an engineer, and have already dealt with the kind of non-techie who expects politics to trump physical reality, and does...