I just want to thank you and try to express how much it meant to me to read this on the Leadership Summit invite in JRS: The one VERY IMPORTANT thing to remember is the word Queer before any of these terms is NOT EXCLUSIVE and not derogatory. We have some great hetero or hetero-adjacent friends that...

Oh, haha, is that how STEP is going to work? Sorry, I guess I didn't notice that they had shared any details on that. I assumed it was gonna be more of a stubhub-type thing.

Some people intentionally bought extra tickets, hoping to resell at a profit, but plenty of others have admitted to ordering extras just because they were afraid of not getting any at all. I'm looking forward to seeing how STEP will work, but in the meantime, here's a simple/stupid thought: what if ...

When I started this thread, my goal was simply to take the financial information that BRC LLC publishes and make that data more accessible. The data is published, not because the organization has any legal requirement to do so, but apparently because they feel it's a good thing to do. My goal was to...

@joshuaj - sorry I'm not 'burner' enough to meet your standards, @Trilobyte, are you still trying to pick a fight, or are you just reading way too fast? I never said anything to suggest that you were any less 'burner' than anybody else. I did suggest that you were acting like a dick, which is a qua...

@Jester: If you want to get more than your fill of rational explanations on the playa, march your megaphone over to Entheon. I camped with them 2 years ago and they were awesome, I might do it again if I could afford it, but man did they take the reason thing waaay too far sometimes. I was reminded ...

So stop thinking of it as a lottery, and think of it as a random draw for your tier. Stop thinking of the Black Rock Desert as a desert, and think of it as a hot, dry, sandy place. I'm sorry, I really don't see a difference. Is there a chance more than 40k people will enter the main drawing? Yes, b...

I can't imagine a universe where crowd-sourcing your business accounting would be a good idea. I suggest reading up on the world of open-source software. It's truly incredible how some groups have managed to crowd-source difficult, technical, quantitative tasks. I'm certainly not suggesting that Bu...

I am really sick and tired of the constant rehash of BMORG and it's finances. It's really none of anybody's business. It's novbody's business what they pay themselves, what they charge for tickets nor how they decide to spend the proceeds of ticket sales. You either can afford to buy a ticket and g...

Good lord, what's going on here? This is NOT the sort of attitude I'm used to when talking to burners. Are you guys saving up all your friendliness and open-mindedness for the one week a year that you're at Burning Man? :? People are putting a lot of words into my mouth, and making a lot of totally ...

The way I'd do it is: starting January 22nd, when lottery registration ends, email 500 random registrants every day saying, "Congratulations, it's your turn to buy tickets now! Come get them as soon as possible to guarantee getting the tickets you want!" Once the cheap tickets are gone, you could st...

Mainly to satisfy my own curiosity, I posted on ManyEyes a visualization of the financial data from the 2006-2010 Afterburn reports. Click the thumbnail to see it. http://www-958.ibm.com/me/files/thumbnails/175c33dc-38f2-11e1-b736-000255111976.png?size=200x150 The size of each box, naturally, repres...

Ok, so I've read the ticket FAQ and everything that's been published in the newsletter, and I've skimmed the forum, and I still don't see how this lottery thing is good for anybody... Here's the thing: Me and my friend are hoping to go to Burning Man together, like we did last year. So, I'm gonna si...