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Here's what _I_ saw on the playa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7wMgtovmAo and here's the result of the drone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSzygc49xSs I'm aggravated by the noise those drones make and them flying around in my face; however, the resulting video was great. The harsh reality is th...

phil

Hey guys ! I am a French Nobody cares. I really don't know if I should start a camp, so far it is just my wife, a friend and I. That's a camp. There's no need to do more than show up with everything you're going to need. But I live in fucking New York, and bringing all the required gear is going to...

phil

I think this will be my next piece of camp infrastructure:

There are soooo many things I could do with that.

phil

Louise and I use a shade structure similar to this: http://ep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-84104761184795/10-x-20-universal-portable-garage-canopy-with-enclosure-walls-38.jpg Ours has a silver tarp roof and the white sides. We use only the end white side and one other on the east in the morning and move it to t...

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I consider a beacon to be one that exists after the man burns. Double bonus points if it is still there after the temple. Well, that one's easy: make your own beacon. I've got an 18' collapsing pole (maybe for a pool cleaner or painters pole). I asked about such a beacon here on ePlaya, and someone...

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I had a friend ask for help removing a bent rebar. He used my visegrips, but no matter how you turned and twisted and pulled, the rebar would not come out. Someone had lent him a long pry bar, but that did nothing for prying a rebar. I had an inspiration. I clamped the vicegrips on the rebar and pri...

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I used cheap strands of LED Christmas lights as my personal and bike illumination: http://www.baaqii.com/promanage/productimage/HG/HG151-1.jpg Louise and I used those, too. Video here: http://civex.smugmug.com/Other/Playa-Views-2013/i-vNJ5FMH/A They are fragile, and I'll use your pipecleaner idea n...

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I have a different take on cast iron cookware. I'm old. My mom grew up in the Depression, and my grandmother cooked on a woodburning stove all the time my mother remembered till in the 60s when I remember, using cast iron all those decades. We used cast iron stuff when I was growing up. We kids were...

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>SNIP< Regarding the quick rebuild in 2007... No, they don't keep (nor have they ever kept) ten years' worth of men in storage at the ranch. Post-2007, there are likely enough replacement parts kept on hand locally to effect a quick rough version rebuild. But back then it was completely unprecedent...

phil

Sync wrote:>SNIP>
when I poured a splash of vinegar on the playa.
>end SNIP<

You left a trace!

phil

unjonharley wrote:Putting off any BM stuff today.. Grandfather is getting a power chair after a two year struggle with the (paper dragon) VA.. Anytime screws up today I'm going to piss on someones computer

Good to see you on the playa, unjon. Let's do lunch next year.

Phil

phil

As is often posted on this ePlaya section, the chemical composition of the playa has been determined here: http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gillett1/#Sec61 in Table 2. Only the column headed "BRP" is the playa, as noted in the text following Table 2. Make of the contents whatever yo...

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The permit rules say no blades longer than 10 inches from tip to hilt. See here:
https://www.federalregister.gov/article ... r-the#h-20
for the definition of weapons, which includes swords.

phil

Kevin, your forecast is for gusty winds. Do you have a time of day? Morning, afternoon, all day?

phil

Just_Joe wrote: >SNIP<
High wind yesterday was 44!
>SNIP<

What time of day, please?

phil

Token wrote:BTW, FRS & GMRS become pretty useless by Wed. Too many folks on at the same time. They are a waste of time and energy.

That's how the original poster will make a lot of new friends.

phil

Louise and I have stayed at the Gold Dust West:
http://www.gdwcasino.com/reno/lodging.php

It's simple and clean, no pool that I recall. It's across the street from an excellent local restaurant.

phil

You haven't said what frequencies your radios use. I assume you have PMR446: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMR446 In the United States, 446 MHz is the national simplex calling frequency for the 70 cm band allocated to amateur radio. If you operate on amateur radio frequencies (also called ham radio),...

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Louise and I used a 10x10 foot flat roof canopy on EMT for years. Ours wasn't home-made, so we had angles with locking screws for the four corners, plus the tension of the bungee cords. We drove rebar in at each of the four uprights and duct-taped the legs to the rebar. We had tarp walls on two side...

phil

What does someone say on the emergency channel in an emergency? What is the clearing the channel, switching to another channel, in an emergency protocol? What is the emergency location protocol? I've called them a couple of times for help (for others, thankfully), and there's basically no protocol....

phil

For those who feel the need, the survival guide is available in .pdf format for mobile use: http://survival.burningman.com/wp-conte ... SG2013.pdf

phil

Token wrote:It's all basic common sense.

There is no common sense. :-> That's been proved repeatedly at Burning Man. Wasn't it a Ranger who set fire to her tent with a tiki torch inside it?

phil

Savannah wrote:Was that Ranger Genius, at the end?

Yes.

phil

Eric wrote:60,000 inebriated people with guns. Great plan, very well thought out.

As if _that_ never happened.

phil

Somebody stole our bacon one year.

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phil

> the trunk is too hot and enclosed. Yeah, Louise and I used to sail, and the last thing you want is your supply of alcohol or gasoline in an enclosed space, whether it's hot or not. Please do not store cans of gasoline or alcohol in your trunk, even if it's not hot. I've read too many news stories ...

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You know, given a couple of quarts of baby oil, you can convert just about any dance floor into a waterless slip-n-slide. Just sayin. :mrgreen: In case you run-out of ideas.... I like using Pledge spray. That shit is SLICK. I'd recommend Pledge over the baby oil. Imagine the baby oiled surface afte...

phil

[quote="FeetOfClay"
--If it were gray or contaminated water, wouldn't it be forbidden for the trucks to dump it on the playa? [/quote]

You are, of course, correct. I would give similar credence to all the other statements cited as facts regarding why not to do a playa shower behind the truck.

phil

Here's the announcement posted on another list: My name is Katharine Richardson, and I am the sister of Tom Brewer, Burning Man enthusiast and volunteer. I am sorry to say that Tom passed away recently. A service of remembrance will be next Thursday, December 6 at 2 p.m., at Walton's Mortuary in Sus...

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I was considering burning a Paul Addis effigy on the Monday before the Burn, but Louise thought some people would consider it in poor taste. I'll have to show her to two posts above mine. :-> Taste? We don't need no stinkin' taste. Here's to Paul: "Dancing in the Graveyards," by Delta Rae http://www...

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