Here's another fun video. This was my first perimeter shift.

Pretty sure you can paint the inside of a RMAX hexayurt no problem. The shiny bit is kind of important on the outside though.

Third year with GPE and am not planning on stopping any time soon.

There are so many sock puppets in this thread I'm even starting to wonder about those posters with more than a handful of posts.

We've gotten (the past) four years so far out of a camp danger style H12 yurt with a rope halo. We taped over every "permanent" seam with foil tape, and every year the yurt has gotten some post/pre maintenance. Mostly removing traces of the old BFD tape and re-applying foil tape where needed. The on...

Or maybe, just maybe, read the survival guide.

Lonesomebri wrote:Just like the Burn itself, I get to be a part of something fantastical that I would have never ever even conceived of on my own.

Oh how I love that feeling.


Sorry I didn't get out to help with penny more than once this season!

Is there a checkbox for "spiritual vehicle"

This seems like a good thread to complain about how flashing the firmware on my NB-5G22 turned into an ordeal that involved TFTP and other arcane UNIX nonsense. I would have actually given up and not spent the time were I not worrying about all kinds of silly ~~real life~~ nonsense that I shouldn't ...

Bring either DEET or geckos. Scuttlebutt saying there is lots of mosquitoes this year.

Captain Goddammit wrote: Maybe you should see a life coach or some shit.

Maybe they are going to that thing in the desert to find a qualified life coach?

MacGyvers' Union will be located at 645 and B this year so rock on.

Being on call while in the desert sounds terrible. That being said, I'm hoping I manage to keep my camp's wifi up for more than a few days this year. In 2014 it was fine until the NOC went out during the storm. I have a feeling that my alignment slipped during the storm and since I never corrected i...

digital wrote: Need gate? What does that mean?

(and careful, gate people bite.)

They only bite with consent.

I don't know about all that but while stuck just off pavement on entry Monday we kept getting distracted by, what can best be described as, this pinging noise. Turns out it was the "sonar" unit on some giganticass sub/tandem-bus/mv that was too long to be turned around and sent back with the rest o...

Next year probably will have been better two years from now.

fresh wrote: No you should be fully tempted. With blinking neon lights at night...

The sign post has a maritime strobe beacon light on top. Visible for about a mile.

Oh and here I thought "selling the experience" was referring to the BMorg selling their tightly controlled brand to whoever could fork over the cash for any one of a plethora of different ticket types.

What are we talking about again ?

Hey simon love the new avatar it suits your, uh, tone

In 2012, I didn't do anything so ambitious as actually providing wifi. I did, however, provide the brief illusion of wifi using an old WRT54G with some tweaks to the firmware: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/610802/Troll-fi.mp4 Over 6000 attempts were logged... Yeah we did a similar thing for o...

Was a great writeup. I only had my unifi kit working for a hot minute mid event week. Definitely going to set it up next year and hopefully aim at the NOC better heh.

So now comes the most important question in this conversation. What art did YOU bring to the playa? You're complaining about people not bringing enough art - are you doing so as an actual participant who built and brought something amazing to the playa and feel like you were alone, or are you doing...

And this is how people get busted by undercover cops - "but they didn't look like an undercover!" Yeah and they can't lie if you ask if they are a cop. this is what people actually believe But for real... A big "fuck you" to the assholes apparently dosing people without consent this year. Have hear...

I may have sent some kid wandering the streets pleading for "acid or molly, anything please" to BLM camp on esplanade. Unless by "kid" you mean under 21, you may have just instructed him to RETURN to his BLM camp on esplanade... Under 21 or not they were wearing far too many clothes to be a underco...

I may have sent some kid wandering the streets pleading for "acid or molly, anything please" to BLM camp on esplanade.

Look for the red and blue blinky lights you'll find it eventually!

I don't much mind the idea of plug and play, but I saw something this year I think around 5:30 and E maybe that was really off-putting. It appeared that almost an entire block was fenced off with a 6 foot black cloth fence. Over the fence all you could see were the peaks of what appeared to be a hu...

A bit of bleach in any swamp cooler water is a good idea. Swamp coolers are notorious breeding grounds for bacteria, mold, algae, and things you do not want to imagine. Any of the nasties that grow near body temperature will grow in a swamp cooler. Also when the cooler pads get caked with playa dus...

Re-entry is still a thing as long as you pay the twenty bucks on the way out and don't mind waiting in a line again coming back.

Simon of the Playa wrote:you have a better chance of being struck by lightning...


seriously...


much ado about nothing, and a lot of Hooey...

too soon

This thread is totally ruining my burn.

Thanks for the laugh. I'm pretty sure the artist knows the location. (GPS and all). Who here hasn't missed an art installation? Yeah, no. Pretty sure not every artist has a handheld GPS unit. For deep playa projects, given the changing landscape, it can sometimes be difficult to find your art again...