Aluminet is exactly the same as knit HDPE (high-density polyethylene) shade mesh, except the surfaces of the strands are metalized. How well it sheds water, breaks wind, or acts as camouflage depends on how clogged with playa dust it gets. I believe it's about half the weight of blue economy-type ta...

Hooray for office party leftovers.

That is all.

There are Harbor Freights in states without harbors.

While I think the questions and responses are complete bullshit, it warms my cockles that the term "funky" in the hippie sense remains extant in Laytonville. Somebody should alert the OED editors.

I refuse to vote on the grounds the ballot did not include "Nun of the Above".

Now is the FUCKING winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meeti...

Ah, tales of a misspent youth... RIP Jane Dornacker....

Savannah, that's the sweetest thing I've seen all year, next to my 5yo's architectural drawings. Tx.

...however FUCKING OUTRAGE!!!!! i come home all happy and stuff got home fairly quick the hall has been painted and everything is done (by someone else yay!) (in fact YAY! i hate painting) but the FUCKER has used my best putty knife http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=I.4632616940996578&pid=15.1&W...

Wrath wrote:

Bob wrote:Ravefucks at Burning Man don't DO anything.

Actually, they dance.

Burning Man also being famous for loose definitions of art, dancing, influence, etc.

Simon of the Playa wrote:hell hath no fury.

Funny how that shit sneaks up on you. Arg.

You mentioned "social control" (singular). I think the broader term is " controlling processes ". Everybody who's made a habit of going to the Black Rock Desert is aware that the law and certain social norms exist there as much as anywhere in these United States. People who start...

Have seen 'em roll like tumbleweeds, one from our camp a couple years ago. When we got it back we zip-tied PVC to it profusely and dropped to about 4'. Also staked it and guyed it. Don't remember if it was those things or maybe no more big wind that allowed it to survive the week. Haven't had anoth...

In the year 2000, Dan Miller (aka Burning Dan) plowed a 2000-ft long trace of the Burning Man stick figure with a small tractor, roughly following the alignment of the Beaming Man laser installation. I don't think he particularly cared whether people noticed it or ran over it.

Vinegar?

Piss, clearly.

Some easy-up type awnings are worse than others, but they're all aviation hazards in a strong wind & prone to getting bent out of shape.

Google "conduit tarp canopies". Guy it.

Cultural appropriation? Do I go over to your house during one of your BDSM sessions and slap the Nazi SS officer hat off of your head?

^Rhino! wrote:...I've also helped to probe the secrets of the Weaubleau structure...

That's what she said...


Yeah, Kluft's a wackjob.

Oooh, somebody's butthurt.

Take the floor out, plank the bottom edge, put it on wheels and you've got a chicken tractor when you get home.

Just weld a locomotive on the side of the Hoff.

Despite that the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake epicenter was way up in the Santa Cruz Mountains, most of the fatalities were in the lowlands northwards as a result of amplified shaking in the soft mud & fill along the bay, that shook down poorly-braced man-made structures. Then again, it was only ...

Yeah but what about *my* needs?

Apropos of disasters, this struck me in the news this morning -- 14 people at a house party, sucking oxygen and maybe some moldy medical pot, all demanding a busride to General Hospital thinking they had CO poisoning. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-partygoers-cleared-of-CO-poisoning-40673...