Wow, BBadger, you really are a radically self-entitled fuck, aren't you? Obviously, everyone is TOTALLY JEALOUS of your bitchin' 40 foot RV and your indentured servants. "Why can't all you little, insignificant people let us rich pretty people do whatever we want? We're so FABULOUS, we make everythi...

Out of sheer curiosity: are these plug'n'play camps marketing themselves to the outside world as, say, a hotel would? "Come stay at Burning Man in a pre-prepared RV with costumes, bikes, etc. Only $10,000!" Bless- YES. Like a fucking club med of the playa. A girl wandered into my camp last year com...

Dr. Pyro wrote:

jenn nelson wrote: I don't need your plastic Barbie dreamhouse.

Well then I'd be happy to take it.

HA HA HA I don't think part of the plan was for you to set it on fire, Doc.

You know, a year later and this still irks me. I just watched some video where a bunch of p'n'p folks sit around with the BMorg managers and justify their existence, and it made my skin crawl the whole damn time. A caterer was talking about how she has a hard time getting people to pick up their pla...

This phenomenon is horrific. This is the WORST kind of commodification. I can get behind the idea of a camp pooling funds for big infrastructure (heavy machinery rental, buying supplies for an evap pond, etc.) but a paid staff? That's unconscionable. It's worse than corporate sponsorshit. Look, I ge...

We bought water in Gerlach last year and it was awesome.

@JK- The trend for furlough days is to insert them mid-year as 3-day weekends; longer summer breaks means more time to forget everything learned the prior year, and more review in the fall. The general movement of the start of the school calendar away from labor day and closer to July has to do with...

So this year, it looks like my district will (again) be starting school before labor day. This is the second year. Many other teachers I know go back a week or two earlier. Fortunately, I requested the week as unpaid leave to attend a "internationally significant art festival in Nevada" way back in ...