Damn... here I had started another thread. Oh well:

Time Travel: Next year was better last year.
Oligarchy: Plug-and-play camps only.
The Drowning World: Just like 2002, but with global warming.
Fear and Fear: Just like 2006, but... yeah, you know why.

Time Travel: Next year was better last year.
Oligarchy: Plug-and-play camps only.
The Drowning World: Just like 2002, but with global warming.
Fear and Fear: Just like 2006, but... let's be rational here.

Your suggestions below.

Sorry for reviving a long dead thread but... well, I just saw it. SO, YES, there was. In 2008 at some unknown spot around 11:00 and fuck-all. It was jointly presided by a Jesuit priest and a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Probably the most beautiful mass I've ever been to. There were maybe two dozen of us w...

Three stories thus far. Four days before I leave for the playa and I'd love to have some more stories. Just a few more please.

One story so far. One is good -- thank you for that. More is better. Anyone?

Thanks for the invite -- my little crew from Inflection Points is eagerly awaiting Sunday's BBQ!

- Jim

Our 2011 work is all about point of inflection: those singular moments in your life when everything changes; the brief periods of rest in between life stages. From the project description: In form, this installation appears as a corner of an old room that has been torn away, with a chair facing the ...

"Sounds like 'e's from the north!"

"Lots of planets have a 'north'..."

That is all.

- Jim

Specify please: are we talking about on-the-head hair? (yeah, this is probably the only board where you can't immediately assume) If yes, then shave it. If no... well, probably shave it too.

- Jim

My advice: don't think like an adult. Think more like kindergarden. If you see somthing cool that you want to be a part of, just go up and boldly say, "Hi! My name is <name>! Can I play too?" If they say "no", well, you didn't really want to anyway! So there! :P And Cricket's story reminded me of a ...

Now you got me thinking... I'm going to start searching for some really strange stuff just to see what ads I get back.

clothing for transvestite mongooses (mongeese?)
how to deflate a bananna
spring-loaded bookshelves

On second thought, I'd probably get the FBI after me.

- Jim

Cake or death?

Attempt to get help but don't count on getting any. Ditto for money. Make sure that your first project is something that you can do completely by yourself and then be pleasantly surprised if you find other resources. And DO NOT underestimate transportation. That can end up being the biggest single h...

Watts!? Doesn't everyone measure power in electron-volts per shake?

- Jim

As a seasoned grizzeled old veteran, let me say don't mistake falling in love with falling in lust. There's plenty of the latter going around.

You say that like it's a bad thing...

Some answers to your questions: 1). Say you drink a gallon a day (yes, it could be more, just humor me). How much of this should ideally include electrolyte replacement? I did fine with one small (12 oz) PowerAde per day and some salted almonds. On the salty foods front, sardines and anchovies taste...

We are Strange and Charm, the Quarks, and we camp in Hushville. Then we are free to wander anywhere in BRC, and experience what the wind brings us too. As others have said here.. don't plan it, experience it.

So when you're together, you're a Ds-meson?

Sorry. Physics humor.

- Jim

Set up a paypal account and then let us know what it is. Makes it easier.

- Jim

Ummmm, yeah...

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Pork/

Great site! Wonderful advice on all subjects, at least until I came down to this part: drink and additional amount of water equal to 4 times the volume of alcohol you drink. So the obvious question: How the HELL am I supposed to even carry 12 f'n gallons of water per day, let alone drink it all!? Oh...

Which Earthdance were you at? I was at the one at Arcosanti in Arizona: same thing happened. Us burners exchanged a lot of knowing smiles. Somehow, you can just tell.

- Jim

Friend of mine did similar with the thumb drives. Picked up a hundred or so of the 128M size on e-bay for next to nothing. Put a few tracks and some random pictures on each one. The nice thing about them is that they can be given away as necklaces. Useful gifts to those who aren't wearing things wit...

Do NOT confuse the baby wipes with the Clorox wipes. Just sayin'. (ow)

- Jim

Bare minimum night illumination: Lighted dog collar from the pet store. The kind that is lit all the way around and can blink. Just $10 and has lasted me 3 burns so far, with the same set of watch batteries. Just make sure that you get one that is too big for your neck. Though a tighter one may seem...

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

"Dude! That's us!"
"Yeah!"

And thread Godwin'd in three posts? At least give it a fighting chance!

- JIm

Socrates Café are gatherings around the world where people from different backgrounds get together and exchange thoughtful ideas and experiences while embracing the central theme of Socratizing; the idea that we learn more when we question and question with others. I think that Burning Man is a pe...

Explain please, for those of us who haven't read it.

- Jim

My camp has used them for the last x years to hold down a 100' parachute. Parachute fails long before they do. BUT, we had a homemade machine to do the insertion and removal. Said machine consists of a BMF electric motor attached to a hydraulic cylinder all mounted on a truck. My advice: get (build)...

This is nerdy, but it would be cool to design an old fashioned manual elevator that can be quickly assembled in a fail safe and stupid proof way, and uses scaffolding as the supporting framework. Maybe interlocking tubes that guide a platform, a counterbalance that you fill with water, and a pull r...