Ahh, thanks!

I'm getting messages 'stuck' in my outbox, sometimes for hours. Anyone else seeing this?

If BMORG is straight up saying that they want fewer frat bros and woo girls out there, then they should stop providing services that make it really easy for unprepared people to attend Burning Man, or easy for camps to provide services for people who want to buy the experience. Stop the Burner Expr...

Yeah, that's something that's been kicked around here that I probably should have mentioned. Ticket resale outside of STEP needs to be gone. Tickets need to be made non-transferable. If you can't go, then sell the ticket back to the Org at face value minus a few bucks for administrative fee so it c...

This conversation is way too late. I started in 2011, and it was probably too late to have it already then. It's never too late to work to make a change. Whether that change might have been more effectively made many years earlier....well, yes, it would have been. The writings' been on the wall re:...

Could be interesting if they turned it into a Burning Man version of an artists' retreat, where people or groups of people can either reserve or apply to stay for a week or two. I heard someone connected to the project (not officially speaking for the Org in any capacity, mind you) say something to...

I had the opportunity to visit Fly Ranch during the Burn this year, and put together an article on it with pics and video.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on what we could do with the ranch!

http://www.burn.life/blog/a-visit-to-bu ... -fly-ranch

Well how about a group of us regular folk go on over next year. We'll go in behind the dj booth (as the author suggested) to the vip area and have a sit down for a spell. I'm sure we'll be welcomed with loving open arms. i like that idea alot. maybe we can teach them something. image.jpeg I'm in. I...

I would probably be marginally disappointed if the big sound camps went away, but they are such a small part of the burn for me that their disappearance wouldn't make me reconsider my decision to attend even for a second. Getting rid of plug n' plays wouldn't get rid of all the sound camps, just on...

I don't think that what's going on will continue much longer. The glitteratti will find a new "thing" to throw money at. Others will tire of the the event itself for all kinds of reasons and stop coming. Numbers will dwindle. 5-6 years from now we'll be back to 40-50 thousand people who just LOVE t...

So how it'd end up going?

FlyingMonkey wrote:Thanks DrYes, Great work.

I really liked David Bowie & wish I could have been there this year. I don't know if he ever went to the Playa but I suspect he would have enjoyed it.

Thank you!

I'm pretty sure he never went, but I certainly agree.

TL;DR: What the subject says. His daughter placed some of them there, reportedly. http://www.burn.life/david-bowies-ashes-at-burning-man.html Also made a video tribute to Bowie using my footage from this year, set to Space Oddity. It's linked on the page, or you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/I...

If any of the folks involved with the incident are reading this, I would love to talk to you. I'm going to be writing a long-form piece on Burn.Life about the community divide this illustrates and I'd much rather be sure of your motivations rather than inferring them. Were they attacked because they...

Totally agree with you trilobyte! I hope that the BMorg changes this in years to come so it is no longer an outlet to potentially have people abuse. No reason for people to be buying several presales and main sale tickets as well. Radical Self-reliance! The BMORG isn't interested in radical self-re...

. With all the Sturm und Drang regarding tickets and related things, I would like to chime in with this opinion: Surely, the Directed tickets program is the best thing BM HeadQuarters has ever come up with, other than the Event itself. And they have increased the number of DGS tickets each year so ...

My phone goes into airplane mode the minute we hit the playa and isn't allowed to dirty itself with a signal until we leave the playa again.

Elderberry wrote:

DrYes wrote:It's so obvious: That money should be spent to improve the Burning Man FAQs around getting free tickets as a volunteer. Duh.

OK, was this whole thread just a set-up for you to be able to deliver this line?

No, but on seeing the thread it sure felt like it!

It's so obvious: That money should be spent to improve the Burning Man FAQs around getting free tickets as a volunteer. Duh.

Most of the people who "accept" that are just bad at explaining things. Wait, they are? Is there some reliable source of data you can reference there that'll help us decide whether that's a true statement or not? Why does everyone argue with me about how things will or won't benefit me? Do they? It...

Call yourself what you want. Words have different meanings in different contexts. In the context of the Burning Man community, you're not a burner unless you've been to Burning Man. If people who spend their time in Newark want to consider themselves New Yorkers, that's their business, but people wh...

That part of the FAQ is riddled with "usually" and "if it does occur" and "generally" and other intentionally vague qualifiers. "usually" is not a vague qualifier. In most contexts it means "most often". And by "most" I mean >50%. So, sure, 50-100% is a broad range, and that might be vague, but the...

The "bacon" in Islamic countries is woeful though. They often try to pass off beef bacon as actual bacon. It's so depressing to bite into as it tastes virtually nothing like bacon. This, and the lack of beer is something I am not looking forward to. I am a little concerned about spending time in co...

And they have not yet discovered bacon. Something fundamentally wrong with that part of the world. Nah, that's really only the case in the Islamic countries (Malaysia and Indonesia-minus-Bali). In many of the Asian business hotels, they will even have a couple types of pork bacon at breakfast - cri...

One thing to look out for in Viet Nam: lots of businesses (especially hotels) all have the same or nearly identical name. It doesn't mean they're being run by the same folks, and are often run by the competition trying to leech off a good hotel's reputation. In Beijing one time I came across a vide...

Hong Kong was interesting but not my thing. We stayed at the ymca. It's a big hotel. Nothings cheap in accommodations. Some places we've stayed there have the tinest rooms I've ever seen. I can't remember the name of the cities in thailand that I would skip altogether. I've blocked them out. I'll g...

Oh man, you are going to be so happy you got certified before this trip. Sooooo happy. With all this stuff, as someone said earlier, Tripadvisor is your friend. In Sipadan, which is off the coast of northeastern Borneo (Malaysia...state of Sabah), the diving is really restricted, and only 8 or 9 ope...

Was just in Malaysian Borneo a few months ago. Was in the Sabah region (the northeastern part of the island). The highlights for me were: * Spending a few nights in a jungle lodge up the Kinabatangan River and going out at dawn and sunset animal watching up little tributaries on a skiff. * Hanging o...

Getting 2011-2015 done! Was kind of a drag, as I had lost some steam on the project, but I finally completed it. Enjoy!



http://www.burn.life/visual-history-of-burning-man.html

I bought an mp3 player that would run off an sd card for the Burn, which I loaded up with a bunch of my favorite music of all kinds. I figured out later that it wouldn't play randomly, and only played in order of the albums I added. Every time I needed to skip a track I had to hold down the button ...