So they found a few mosquitos in Gerlach...that's scary, right? Unless you put it in context: this week alone, they found 181 mosquitos carrying it in California. Odds are, that that week at Burning Man, you were safer from West Nile than the rest of your year.

VultureChow wrote:tAre we talking hydrogen or helium?

Safety third.

C.f.M. wrote:

Fire_Moose wrote:Unless Gate asks you to. Then its best to follow orders.

I wish someone from Gate would ask to see me naked. There's just something about a man in dusty-ass boots and all black...meow.

Since it's more than 11 more months until we can do that, I hereby ask you to post pictures instead.

unjonharley wrote:The one big stone in the hwy is there no matter how you pave it..
You can have just so many car on a two lane hwy at one time..

You are right - there's nothing that you can do on the GPE end when the highway is the limit. If you want to fix it with unlimited money, turn 447 into a six lane highway.

ducking behind a container out in deep playa to pee (in our jugs, with our funnels - thank you pee funnel camp), two other people came back to pee without jugs or funnels. when i commented, the bitch says "what are you, a fucking spy?" to which i answered calmly, "yes, yes i am. its you fuckers who...

Is it just me or was this a mooptastic year? Not only did our camp members or neighboring camps apparently not care at all (woodwork without a tarp underneath, leaving empty cans on the ground for the entire week), but when picking up moop on the open playa, people asked if we had lost something. :s...

And it's the first year that I saw everybody go 5mph on the gate road. Which was absolutely wonderful! Not only did it make my job at gate much safer, it also left the roads intact for exodus. I remember years where exodus was a horribly bumpy ride because all the cars speeding had turned gate road...

GPE nails it again? Good job guys! Credit goes mostly to participants spreading their departures instead of all leaving at the same time. While we're trying to do as much as we can to make Exodus (and entry of course) as good as possible, everyone is contributing their own share by not driving tire...

Yes, the link for tickets for sale is from 2012 NOT 2013. My apologies. I have to apologize, I was the idiot who pulled out that link without checking what year it was from. Note to self: no internet posting before I've had coffee. Either way, I'd try to sort out things beforehand. You really, real...

I hear next year the city will be a 10 mile circle with just one street. Everybody gets to camp on the esplanade!

...wait a second. Weren't you selling two tickets just two weeks ago? Now you're hoping for a free ticket?
http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... 20#p867120

Whatever you do, don't bet on a free ticket in gate line. If you show up at gate one ticket short, you will be sent back to Reno. There is no waiting room for people waiting for miracle tickets.

Unless you're doing in in my shift. I'm German, I have a thing for schadenfreude.

Tell your doctor that you will go no matter what and ask him what you should do to minimize harm. Don't take medical advice from a net forum full of laymen.

Exhausted from last year's gig, Daft Punk will only attend and not play this year.

The universe will grant favors at $390 a piece.

Asquared wrote:ick. if you're trying to make the seppos sick - SUCCESS! (do humans actually need yeast?)
you can make up for it with coopers. red. green will do, but not nearly as well.

My preferred method of yeast consumption is unfiltered home-brew. I actually did brew a Coopers kit once...

Welcome to playa!

Wait. I look like that!

Wilkommen! Das erste Mal auf Burning Man? Please, don't hesitate to ask questions, no matter how stupid you may think they are. We much rather answer repeat questions here in the forum than have you suffer out in the desert. Sometimes we will mock you, sometimes we will use a blunt tone, but we real...

Yes, we expect you to find out the things you want to know - it's not their job. Unless you meant to go to Earning Man in the Black Dog Hotel, there the ten principles include radical somebody else reliance.

I really, actually did blow off helping a friend move because I was busy trying to find information about how to get a bike to Burning Man; if the "bikes" page had just had a link to the bike rental camp, I would have been done, and I could have gone and helped him. If they do create a wiki for nex...

If you strip a lazy unprepared sparkle pony of their sparkle, you still end up with a lazy unprepared pony. When you let it wear skimpy outfits, at least it's good for decoration.

Please wear it. I enjoy seeing elaborate costumes. With art project, volunteering, traveling with camping gear in airplane luggage I don't have the resources to do it myself, so by all means, please wear it. If I see you and like it, I might stop you and ask for your permission to photograph you an...

Having your tickets ready in your hand, sticking to the speed limit and having your stuff packed neat, secure and easy to look through is already a great treat for your friendly gate staff.

What if you Lived like you were at Burningman all year long

I'd be broke, sunburnt and have liver cirrhosis.

We are 3 virginburners who is coming by Rv from Las Vegas. We have decided not to join a theme camp our first burn. But when scrolling to all the pages it seems like 99% are in a camp. I might be wrong ;) . Many of us are without theme camps. It's good - no camp fees, no camp duties, just freedom. :)

Wait till thursday before the man burns, I'm sure you'll find a $70 ticket on eplaya then.

Unless you carry a compass during a whiteout and know how to use it, sit it out. The goggles are primarily for protecting your eyes from the dust...seeing is secondary. This may sound like a joke, but it's true. I remember a night time whiteout when the compass that someone in our group had on thei...

Is there a regional burn or a decompression in your area? Take her there first. There she'll get to meet burner people, art and culture without the Black Rock Desert and a long trip go get there.

Burning Man is that which you can get away with. If Larry Harvey had ever thought, "gee, is it legal to burn this on the beach?" then we would never be doing this. As phil and lemur pointed out, using radio equipment on the wrong frequencies it not just between you and the FCC but also interferes w...

[quote="gaminwench"]I was just letting Stew know that he can, in fact, find what he is wanting ... if he looks for it. :D[/quote] I know it's there, I just didn't run into it yet. Maybe I should have spent less time at Opulent Temple :D I found some of the 15 pianos - if you saw a guy in a white top...