I was walking down 3:30 towards esplanade, Friday morning, say around 3 or 4AM, and I found what I thought to be some moop. I picked up the folder papers and looked at them. I saw that they were pictures of an older couple, a younger couple with a pet (an alpaca?) and another pet in a funeral pose. ...

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Sat Aug 06, 2022 4:39 pm

So people are willing to pay:
- $1500 for a ticket
- probably spend a few $thousand more on food, supplies, transportation, etc
- Most likely own a $1K cell phone

and won't spend $50 on safety and communication ?

Thanks for following along! I think that is the case.

I don't have a HAM license and I have two radios set up to contact ESD. I've suggested that the owner of our camps Mutant Vehicle, and the camp lead also buy radios which I will program for them. You know, for emergencies.

Since there are only 5 MURS channels, and probably a lot more than that number of groups of people trying to use it, I'd wager your guess is correct. Too much chatter on it to monitor it for emergencies effectively.

Thanks. I'm super new to this, and when I got into CHIRP software I saw all sorts of other columns that looked like maybe were important.

Seems I was overthinking it. Thanks Molotov!

I have a Baofeng radio for camp in case we need to contact ESD. This was bought due to this post: https://survival.burningman.org/survival-health-and-safety/getting-help/ "“911” Service in Black Rock City — Best Ways to Get Help Fast" I'm programming it via CHIRP software, but it seems there are som...

I had an art installation out there called "Illusions of Grandeur". It was an 8 foot high by 16 foot wide interactive wall of LEDs around 10:45 and 4600' (fairly close to where Balloon Chain was being created). I had a guest book there up until at least Wednesday evening. It was in a zip-lock bag wi...

At least it would be a pink and fabulous ghetto.

I just noticed you were a type of flamingo too! Good job.

I bring the butane iron even when I don't have an electrical project! A generator and the 100W iron might be quicker though. Hopefully I won't need to worry about it.

Well, I'm hitting it every evening after work. I now have the electronics for roughly 8 feet by 8 feet completed. The individual boards are (mostly?) completed for the rest, but they need to be combined into the vertical strips. I think it's moving along fairly nicely, if not stressfully. Luckily I ...

Thanks Jovenkat. I don't understand what American Boyfriend means though.

Pre-populating the boards (with a bent lead on each) has brought my time down to 3 minutes from a panel of 15 boards to tested individual circuit boards. So... good advice!

Thanks Trilo. Hopefully you'll see it out on the playa.

Thanks BBadger. I was trying to avoid the bent leads, but you're probably right. I'll try it on the next batch of 15 and see if it drops me below the ~4 minute mark average.

-chromie

Just got the good word. Vinyl Bunker is officially debuting on E street near 9:15! Join us in the middle of the day for some hard lemonade, 50s music, and a selection of games on our front lawn. I'm absurdly excited. Hooray! The Fucking Flamingos are also at 9:15 & E. We'll have lots of random fun ...

I have just shy of 400 circuit boards to solder parts on. It's really easy work, but it takes me on average 4 minutes to complete each board. So, I need help to finish this in time for Burning Man! This Saturday and Sunday, starting at noon, I'm hosting "solder parties". There will be music, and dri...

Keep your chin up Trilo!

On a personal note it saddens me that there aren't more musical choices overall, white dj's be running things with an occasional splash of brown skin here and there (if you are lucky lol). Would be nice if the large sound camps paid a bit more attention to that...but just an observation, no need to...

Why are these sites allowed to use Burning Man imagery? Why are they given prime placement when most of their camp members are paying for the experience, as well as paying for the luxury of being in an RV? Why can they assume that they'll get a significant number of early entry passes? They're not....

BeachBum wrote:Oh, well, it sadly looks like the Burning Man Org has jumped the shark in trying to get us to accept Pay & Play camps.

This image makes me giggle.

Yeah, I've been thinking the same thing. Reading about Playaskool, Jon is pretty much describing it as I thought most large scale theme camps already operated. Everybody pays a camp fee, everybody has a job (or jobs) to make the camp function. Some camps have build teams, while other people are clea...

I dont have any ideas to help them integrate into the ways of burning man because I don't think we should have for profit/non profit businesses in the form of camps serving clients at burning man. I see integrating them as supportive of the businesses and I dont think those businesses should get an...

Now I learn that the "viral" video mainly responsible for the sudden HUGE influx of people wanting to come to this years burn which in turn lead to the lottery snafu which in turn lead to *many* long time camps NOT being able to attend this year is connected to your (MEGA PnP)camp?!?!?! :shock: Act...

You could be right Janus. I was just sharing what a close friend of mine who is a member of the team who cares for the Yellow Bikes told me. We were discussing the video at the start of this ePlaya discussion and he said "I know that guy." "He was the -redacted- who was going to take a bunch of our ...

Heheh... The first guy, Jon la Grace, "Theme Camp Organizer"... A friend of mine on the bike club told me that this guy was trying to steal a whole slew of Yellow Bikes. They almost started a physical fight. Turns out that it was a misunderstanding or something... The misunderstanding was that Jon t...

How about we revoke all of the vendor passes? Why the fuck does an event that has no vending have vendor passes in the first place? Are you going to empty the Porta-Potties, wash them twice daily, and then truck the "waste" in a state-certified vehicle to a state-certified disposal site? That would...

How about we revoke all of the vendor passes?

Why the fuck does an event that has no vending have vendor passes in the first place?

but, whatever you buy via the new official ticket system, you will be allowed to buy tickets sold by other burners when they are put up for sale, even on the new to come 'resell our officially bought tickets here system' is put on line. right? I'm not holding my breath for an official ticket resell...

The main sale has a limit of two tickets. The pre-sale is a program that was added a few years ago (by popular request) so that people who wanted to be able to give tickets for the holidays would be able to do so. In the past it was just at the top tier, this year they jacked it up by an extra $30 ...

Yes, that's confirmed and correct. Sigh... Okay. That doesn't make sense to me at all then. If it's a low to high tier lottery, they really should just do a single price ticket lottery with 40,000 tickets priced at $325 each. There is no reason to do this, though I suppose it's their sandbox, and t...