I've owned and administrated a music related BB for the past twenty years. A partial solution to the censorship problem was to establish a "Grease Pit" category to which off-topic and policy violating content was moved. Those interested in rolling in the mud can go there to flame and insult each oth...

Welcome! Weather at was untypically mild. You can thank the Coast wildfires for keeping the daytime temperatures down and warmer nightimes. The smokey skies also kept the dust storms and whiteouts at bay as the diffusion resulted in less uneven heating of the playa. If you haven't already done so ch...

This is the iconic Harold Lloyd comedy where Harold hangs high above the street from the hands of a giant clock.

You may be surprised at how much water an evap cooler uses.

Yeah, I think either that BLM was caught off guard last year or they realized from the buzz on social media and publicly posted city maps that the population this year is likely to be 10x greater than last. Porta potties are allowed, you just can't have them delivered to the Playa by an outside vend...

Last year by all accounts was great and they didn't have a fucking private FB page. When I saw people starting to plan and organize a baby burn I threw up in my mouth a little. What could have been a great non-event is now lost. The FB group I cited is not organizing anything. Quoting Plan B goal w...

The Facebook group that is serving as a repository for Renegade Burn info is Black Rock Plan B. It is a private group so you'll have to request an invite to view and join in the discussion. The latest information posted there suggests: Permits are only required for large camping groups. What constit...

So, yes, the people DID get off their ass and did something OLD! You missed it, AGAIN!!! LOL, Missed it again? How do you know? Sorry you keep missing my point. What happened a couple of weeks ago was people showing up for a cancelled event. Entirely different from creating and maintaining a commun...

Simon of the Playa wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:06 am

BOF


consider it entered for consideration into the lexicon.


and is it “Bitchin’ “ or “Bitching”?

nuance is everything.

I'd go with bitching in this case. Bitchin' would be more appropriate for that classic Ford Mustang.

...better than better than sex? Us old farts can't keep up with you young shits being so clever making acronyms for anything so you can save time on your cellphone texts. Back in the old days (like a few years ago) gen-x or the much maligned millennials were foisting on us that BTS meant better tha...

Have you ever considered that the bitching old fart on FB may actually be right? The bitching old fart on FB said he was now 42. I didn't say he was wrong. I didn't say he was right. I offer no opinion on that at all. I wasn't there 18 years ago. I wasn't there 10 years ago. So, I'll take your word...

Well, Captain, everything isn't about you, and my comment certainly wasn't.

There was a guy on FB bitching about BMORG and how they've ruined Burning Man. He said he hadn't been back to the Playa since 2002. Gloating about the current situation he echoed the common opinion that the fact a couple thousand showed up on the Playa this year without the Org's involvement was pro...

I'm not trying to defend Eventbrite but... I think the ticket refund policy is set by the event organizer, not Eventbrite. Your event organizer should be able to help you. Previous to this year, ticketing was handled by TicketFly, now owned by Eventbrite, but BMORG went with a different vendor, I be...

I posted a comment on the blog thanking Marian for the post. I thought it made a whole bunch of excellent points, many of which I have been trying to make to people at HQ for the last several years. I also said I thought it was kind of a shame that instead of directing people to the online communit...

The only foolproof way of eliminating spam from the open internet is through filtering by a moderator. There are, as noted, many automated solutions, such as services like askismet that examine post content, services that maintain blacklists of spammer email addresses to prevent them from registerin...

Nicely produced and entertaining look at the 2017 event. Recommended!

Have you been able to change your password yet? I haven't been able to log in to make a change; did you go the 'forgot my password' route instead? I did read one article which suggested that no credit card info was breached. When I attempted to log-in yesterday, it wouldn't accept my password and I...

Saw them in my local Phoenix area Costco last week.

But if you ask me why a 41 year old married man with young kids would run into the flames, my guess would be that he thought it would be really great fun. While a wife and young kids be an incentive for most of us to continue living, it very well could be the opposite for someone suffering depressi...

some seeing eye wrote:I think there is a continuum of camps with dues to camps with megadues. I'm all for any camp with dues opening their books to their campers.

Exactly so. Both ends of the spectrum provide amenities for a price - it's just a matter of degree.

A-RockLeFrench wrote:I think that spraying the roads with water might exacerbate the problem.

I think you're right. The wet playa adheres to tires causing divots where it pulls away from the road. Those depressions now pool water making it more likely they will be wet and repeat the process.

I'm using white plastic dryer vent hose. Has survived two burns so far. Going for three.

I'd argue vbulletin, which was the beast of boards, did not use this concept. Correct, VBulletin tracks messages with a read receipt which permits you to see which of multiple recipients have read the message. In one way the phpBB system is more usable as it permits you to edit the message in the O...

Evap coolers are not effective if the dew point is much over 50 degrees F.

I have always been under the impression that E-Playa was an information based blog to assist burners and potential burners regarding all the different aspects of the Burning Man Project and not a back and forth dialog based run-of-the-mill chatty social media site. In my opinion, not having 'Like' ...

I added LIKE and REPUTATION options to my VBulletin based forum about a decade ago. Both components have logic that discourages gaming the system, and both have been successful in doing so. There was some push-back from users at first. Initially you could either mark a post as "useful" or "not usefu...

It is the height of hubris to suggest that since those people didn't haul every bit of gear they used personally, that they somehow aren't the people who really contribute and make the event happen. It's utterly ridiculous to accuse them of not caring about radical self-reliance, decommodification,...

The trick with the figjam bucket is a strong fan, and a place for the air to exit. We hook ours directly to a little solar panel, because we only need it when the sun is up. It sits outside the tent, with the snorkel coming in the side of the front door, and the back window sipped open just a bit. ...

I've decided that instead of modifying my monkey hut to fit the kodiak, I will use the figjam cooler if it gets to hot. Im an early riser and rarely take inside naps while at the burn. I've used a figjam cooler with my unshaded Kodiak 10x10 the past two burns. It does not push enough air through th...