What? What is this, some kind of cruel hoax? Damn, now I have to call back my silver bullets from HR trying to get matching corporate funding for my contribution to the fundraiser. I was really looking forward to wearing my new EL wire shirt sans pants outfit to the BM BS concert and popping a few P...

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html this one is even better, although a little jaded in the editorial dept. Hell yeah. This one has been taking up too much time in my house for a few months now. The kids went from Playstation RPGs like Zelda to DDR and then to the web in search of "more of that...

Thanks Ivy!

For anyone interested here is a related eplaya thread.

A quick search of eplaya turns up little mention I can find on what seems like a fairly obvious idea, the distillation of gray water. Anyone ever pursue this? First thought is along the lines of a pressure cooker with the pressure cap (that little wobbly thing on the top) removed and replaced by a h...

from little acorns....

Yeah, I hear you, Ivy. In that last post I wasn't trying to make a pro/con comment on the value of another sound camp, only relating the direction my campmates have chosen. But I will now..... To be honest, their direction saddens me a bit. Not because I object to sound camps or any of the rest of t...

Anecdotal contribution. In 2003 my campmates brought hundreds of pieces of art to the playa to display/trade/gift. Ceramics, photos, drawings, poems; much was either award winning or commercially successful. Toward the end of the week some of the better pieces, despite being secured well to the disp...

carved magnesium horns would burn pretty, once you got them lit

wear a thick shirt, though, just in case

and maybe some sunglasses, for your friends

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had a cool torch rig on his bicycle this year; maybe you could collaborate

(note, I have no connection to bonefire, YMMV, danger of spontaneous combustion or immediate amputation, death by immolation not advised)

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Major hassles with domes include: 1) Fabrication. Lots of struts to cut, holes to drill - easier if you have access to a real shop, but doable with backyard tools. Figure 10 minutes fab time per strut, and a 5/8 3v takes 165 plus spares using a cutoff wheel, 12 ton hydraulic press & bench drill pres...

Yep, good stuff, and Jon Van Zyle seems worth a mention here. From my den <g>.

Damn! Thanks Ring! Memories of Fairbanks '91 flooding back in. Smiles.

"This is the worst looking hat I ever saw.....Oh, it looks good on YOU, though."

Caddyshack, as Al Czervik

I'm betting few among us have NOT uttered that line at one point or another. Thanks Rodney, for a bunch of great ones.

Wait, wait, I thought the coliseum deal was with that jobs site...

IIRC Greyhound was the recommended approach when this came up last time. You might do a search on drop ship and/or greyhound to see if you can find the thread(s).

Props to theCryptofishist for kicking this in a positive direction. Had one of the niecelings over for dinner Saturday and we discussed "The Kiss" incident. Her take is that she never felt safe at the event unless in the company of several friends, especially at the dance camps. Her comment was some...

We used wood uprights with rope cross-members & guy lines to make three shade structures this year. They worked OK, but were a LOT of work to assemble & get adjusted properly, although after doing several dozen I can now tie both bowlines & trucker's hitches inverted and with my eyes closed <g>. Her...

OK aforceforgood, invite on its way. I tried 450MB a couple of times the other day and failed, but most stuff seems to go through OK.

Hmm, I thought everyone who wanted one already had one; a quick check says I have 6 available, first come first served.

I am having some trouble rationalizing a situation that occurred the night of the burn; maybe some of you have some suggestions on better responses for the next time something like this happens. I was playing watchdog after the burn for my nieces and their companions, all of whom were tripping prett...

Yeah, doctor time if you have not already been by the time you read this; no delays! I hope by the time you read this she/he has cleaned it out really well and probably given you a course of antibiotics. Puncture wounds can be insidious; lots of bad things get pushed past your first few layers of de...

1) Aw, well, you know, we got there! And unharmed! And unarrested! And with most of our stuff! 2) We built, IMHO, a bitchin' first year attempt at a sizeable theme camp . 3) We built a dome, a nice dome, something I have dreamed about for years, and it worked! 4) The Morticians Closet clothing excha...

Thanks!

OK, a partial list in random order: 1) Not wearing gloves or some type of hand covering when putting on/taking off the hundreds of ball bungees for the dome covering & flys over the course of the week. My hands and fingers were so trashed I am only now getting feeling back and the huge hangnails tha...

Yep, YOU are the one....

OK, I'll relate my creepy camera guy experience. Tuesday evening, in a sarong, doing some batten-down work on the dome (sometimes using the ladder), a guy comes in and says, "I just love your dome; mind if I take some video?" No problem, except it quickly becomes clear that he has more interest in "...

Didn't see any birds this year, but this little creature hung out on T for several hours:

Truck & trailer packed
Down to last bits (bring blankets!)
Rolling out at dawn

Thursday, 6 p.m., Venus & 4:00 Thanks for hosting, Doc! Went out this afternoon and stocked up on pretty much any beer they had that comes in cans. I'll set aside a few Guinnies, Boddies, Heinies & Coronas and bring 'em over iced down & ready to go. This is going to be so much fun; can't wait to me...