Like I said, the camel crapped all over that idea back in the old millennium...

This used to be all you needed to tame the Wild West. https://i0.wp.com/westerntrailrider.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-04-28-15.35.38.jpg?ssl=1 But then this happened and ruined it for everyone. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/camel-caravan-makes-its-way-to-the-burning-man-stat...

If you park your vehicles the correct direction, you can create enough shade for 8 or 10 small tents just using astronomy, angle of the sun, and some simple trigonometry. No shade cloth or rigging required. Our good buddy Canoe did all kinds of cool models to inspire https://eplaya.burningman.org/vi...

Oh WOW! So sad. Fly high Pizzamancer!

If memory serves ... the original inverted flame was done in 2009 as a honoraria installation by Cynthia Washburn and Patrick Shearn. http://www.poetickinetics.com/holding-flame/ Patrick did the flame effect. https://youtu.be/PAXCu15S3Bk Travesty that that video has such a terrible soundtrack instea...

Hey, I used the snark font ;) I could have done the civil, structural, or truss engineer and the usual request for minimal details like location, type of materials used (lumber, steel, etc.), maybe an idea of scale and size ... You know, the usual bits left off. The pickle will be, as you mention, t...

Do you need an engineer to drive a locomotive? Maybe an engineer to design a printed circuit board? I’m betting you need an engineer to design an earthen dam to make a lake on the Playa? Perhaps you need software for your lighting and visuals? No, wait, you need a power engineer for your distributi...

True Story: From 2001 - 2003 I camped with three $40 cheap-ass Coleman 2-pole tents. One was a bedroom. One for storage. One as a spare and to hold the dirty laundry. Each tent was like 4 pounds and packed tight n small. It fucking worked like a charm. All these fancy shelters remind me of people bu...

Far out man. Love it!

We should totally do a central power grid run exclusively on steam engines, fueled by the millions of dead drought and bark beetle trees from California. Each participant must bring a chord of firewood, all blockchain tract to an already deceased tree. Alternatively you can bring a market hog for th...

Australia for some geospatial reason got the shit end of the stick with global warming. The global departure of temperatures from days of lower carbon and methane concentration hovers around 0.13C per decade increase. http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_November_2019_v6.j...

Yeah, I didn’t bother to read that post. Just can’t see when it’s a giant run-on sentence and no paragraph breaks.

I can see how a 1-2 KW array can put a dent in it. Especially in a place like California and the insane rate gouging.

200W is peanuts.

Jackass wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:01 pm

venturi effect.

Hey now! Didn’t I say that back in July 2015

….total cost of my system little under 600bucks total save in electricity bill every month 100 buck in summer and 400 in winter I have used this almost 13 to 14 months and have already broke even and have saved maybe 1000 bucks in electricity bills.. Exactly how expensive is a KWH where you live th...

Has anyone gone ahead and done a proper thermal chimney or reverse stack yet? If you have a hexayurt, why don’t you be the mad scientist? Wait for a nice sunny warm/hot day. Install and flash a proper 4” vent in the apex of the yurt. Stick 8’ of black single-wall stove pipe on the vent. Seal the yu...

A good DC to DC converter should be fine for that. Standard stuff on golf carts so cheap, easy, proven.

Uncle Gavin says: Nyet! https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/13/newsom-rejects-pge-plan-to-pay-fire-victims-exit-bankruptcy/ Rejected the $13.5 Billion (of which $11B would go to insurance companies... surprise). Do not pass go. Do not exit bankruptcy. Jello Biafra needs to re-spin California Uber A...

Uncle Gavin says: Nyet! https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/13/newsom-rejects-pge-plan-to-pay-fire-victims-exit-bankruptcy/ Rejected the $13.5 Billion (of which $11B would go to insurance companies... surprise). Do not pass go. Do not exit bankruptcy. Jello Biafra needs to re-spin California Uber Al...

Fun times ahead ... A group of more than 100 elected California leaders on Thursday announced details about what they want PG&E's future to look like. The leaders, which include the mayors of San Jose, Oakland and Santa Cruz, revealed a vision of a nonprofit cooperative that would raise an estimated...

I love the "socialism/communism has never worked" argument. Like capitalism is "working". :lol: Token: got any curing and smoking recipes/tips that would produce some bacon in the style of the motherland? Shelf stable and fully smoked, guessing theres some air-curing like a traditional pancetta or ...

... Yg, we can have a good long talk about story bias of ex-pats from old Soviet era Cold War years ... ... but we maybe want to build a nice fire pit elsewhere on another thread. Besides, Mother Russia wasn’t the only place communism was a hip thing ... lots of other places had it, some still do. ...

A-RockLeFrench wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:27 pm

yeah but who had the better bacon?

Totally different animal over there.

Bacon is fully smoked and shelf stable.

You don’t cook it further unless you want to.

I like bacon both ways; US crispy pan-fried or Iron Curtain cold cut lumps on stale bread.

Both build character

Why indeed, there is an app for that. It’s called GoFundMe and KickStarter ... What you lament is cooperative society. What we have is competitive society. Sadly, in the 21st century, it appears only crisis brings out some of the values from the past. TTITD has some aspects of a cooperative society...

All right! Now we got some meat on this bone. I’d recommend leaning on SparkFun Electronics. It’s a real good resource for the tutorials on how to run all the type of gear you would be using. Here is an example of the LoRa tutorials. https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=Lora#tutorials There ...

P, how “beginner” are you? What kind of craft you got? Ohms law? Miller currents? Do you code and can you handle microcontrollers like Arduino or maybe a Raspberry Pi? Do you solder? Can you do SMD precision soldering? Why do you need individually addressable LED? That raises complexity and craft fl...

Happy trails wherever they may lead you.

It was an honor to share some of this journey with you, from the hilarity of the original Piss Clear, to The Weekly, some crazy mashups at Fandango ...

... fuck we are old.

Stay dusty.

Why indeed, there is an app for that. It’s called GoFundMe and KickStarter ... What you lament is cooperative society. What we have is competitive society. Sadly, in the 21st century, it appears only crisis brings out some of the values from the past. TTITD has some aspects of a cooperative society,...

There are two major drivers of our “Climate Change of DOOM” world ending hysteria... Population Growth Economies based on perpetual growth At some point we will run out of the stuffs that fuels both. CO2 has become the boogeyman of the new millennium... cuz we simple can’t live without one. The sad ...

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Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:28 pm

Token wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 23, 2019 2:00 pm

And the milkman was AWESOME!

Was? Ours still is.

Ooh, I so envy ...

Granted, I can just grab a goat most months of the year and get real fresh milk.

The majority of polluting can be attributed to countries, large corporations and mother nature. An individual's recycling contribution is a feel-good but useless contribution. So you don’t try and recycle ever? So if nobody and I mean nobody ever recycled it wouldn’t make a difference? We’d have no...