Now I'll never get back to my camp !!

Karma · Post by **Karma** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:56 pm

So the man will be able to rotate on the top of it's base at the whim of anyone willing to climb up there and move him.
This is gonna be a bit of a hinderance to my ability to tell where I am and where my camp is in the wee hours of the morning.

Maybe I'll just bring GPS this year.
^_-

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:14 am

Unless, of course, by "Camp" you actually mean "intersection where I will pass out tonight in a pool of my own vomit." That should be pretty easy to find.

Davoid · Post by **Davoid** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:56 am

The Man, Sunday thru Friday:

Dang it, where's that contact lens? Over here? No, wait, was it...How am I supposed to find it in all this frigging dust...Was it back over...didn't I look here before?..shit!..shit...now I'm dizzy...

The Man, Saturday night:

YES!! I goddamn found the fucker! It's right here! I kiss the sky!! I fucking rule!! YESSSSS!!!!!
<sniff> hey, is something burning?

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:07 am

That's why it's so important to leave one person in camp at all times, to shout, "POLO!!!!!".

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:36 am

Our variation last year was "UBER"...."CARNEY"

Not very effective, really.

HughMungus · Post by **HughMungus** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:52 am

Karma wrote:So the man will be able to rotate on the top of it's base at the whim of anyone willing to climb up there and move him.

And people wonder why ticket prices are so high.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:06 pm

It's a shame not to have that energy going somewhere besides turning him around....Grinding corn, perhaps.

Sandwichman · Post by **Sandwichman** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:21 pm

sputnik wrote:Our variation last year was "UBER"...."CARNEY"

Not very effective, really.

We had a version as well. I was seen shouting all over BRC "HAIRY".....

My campmate trying to help me return home would answer very loudly "VAGINA".....

It would have worked better though if one of us was back at camp but holding eachother up late at night it was comforting to know someone familiar was in shouting distance.

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Tue May 31, 2005 7:41 pm

Grinding corn, perhaps.

Or gunpowder.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:31 am

If you can't get back, was it ever really your camp?

bullD · Post by **bullD** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:30 pm

you gotta be kidding, you can't get back to your own camp?

Karma · Post by **Karma** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:12 am

*sigh*

Bull,

Yes, I was kidding.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:46 am

Remember- Breadcrumb trails ARE MOOP. Wear a big, loosely-woven sweater and tie a loose end to your car instead.

stickysunset · Post by **stickysunset** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:07 pm

Grinding corn, perhaps.

Or gunpowder.

or your axe

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:52 pm

Karma wrote:So the man will be able to rotate on the top of it's base at the whim of anyone willing to climb up there and move him.
This is gonna be a bit of a hinderance to my ability to tell where I am and where my camp is in the wee hours of the morning.

Maybe I'll just bring GPS this year.
^_-

Hey Robotland and the rest of you nut wads, I can't wait to fuck with this guy, can you? Seriously Karma, check this out and see if it will help you on the playa:
http://www.mutantvehicle.com/miniman.htm

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 11:49 pm

You may be interested to know that the street names for this year have been released. The alphabetical structure of their nomenclature should help in giving directions. There was also an ordered logic to the names of the streets during the Floating World, but how many of us really know where a Mainmast is in relation to a Foc'sle?

http://www.burningman.com/preparation/m ... 05_map.pdf

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:45 am

Ranger Genius wrote: but how many of us really know where a Mainmast is in relation to a Foc'sle?

IN deed. I knew ship stuff, but different ship stuff. Larry and I read different books as children.
http://www.burningman.com/preparation/m ... 05_map.pdf

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:47 am

Hey! why bipolar and not ADD?

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:48 am

I love the alphabetical idea - easier on the memory, can be shortened to the letter rather than having to remember the street name (shoulda done this years ago!!), even kids can catch on... And somehow, having Amnesia next to the Esplanade, and the city surrounded by Hysteria, just seems too... um... appropriate!

Someday they may get rid of the name thing and go just to letters... OK, not as cutesy, but in a big city it makes more sense to have stable names than change them to match the "theme du an"... and most cities have a similar arrangement. After all, they don't change the names of the radials, do they??

(Edited to correct typing errors and stuff - too darn early!!)
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theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:55 am

Bay Bridge Sue wrote: Someday they may get rid of the name thing and go just to letters... OK, not as cutesy, but in a big city it makes more sense to have stable names than change them to match the "theme du an"... and most cities have a similar arrangement. After all, they don't change the names of the radials, do they??

I think that the constancy of the radials and the changing of the streets is fine. I can tell the diffent emotional states of catharsis and delirium apart better than I can pull apart C and D. And we have to relearn the city anyway. Dispatching may be hell, I've been on calls where we just don't know where we're going.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:28 am

Ranger Genius wrote:You may be interested to know that the street names for this year have been released. ]

Dangit, I'll drive 2000 miles and STILL be between Ego and Delerium!

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:42 am

Plus, this year I will run willy-nilly around the city, exchanging street signs and swapping some out for new ones. Anything to help the newbie enjoy his experience that much more....

............ly,

the rebbi

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:26 am

NOTE TO SELF: Perfect holography and GPS distortion technology BEFORE end of August so that mayhem can ensue.....Must project multiple duplicates of The Man and otherwise disrupt navigation!

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:16 pm

In response to my earlier message, theCryptofishist wrote: And we have to relearn the city anyway. Dispatching may be hell, I've been on calls where we just don't know where we're going.

I can only imagine how it's gonna be (and I volunteered to do WHAT!!??!!), tho being alphabitized like this it shouldn't be too bad... Tho I can imagine...

(Call coming into ESD) The location is Camp (unintelligible garble) at 1:15 and Saturn,, er, Foc's'le, er, Id? Yiiii!!
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theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:07 pm

Bay Bridge Sue wrote: (Call coming into ESD) The location is Camp (unintelligible garble) at 1:15 and Saturn,, er, Foc's'le, er, Id? Yiiii!!

And it's actually going to be at Camp Unintelligable Gargogle at 1:45 and Ego. 'Cept of course that everything between 10 and 2 doesn't exist.

or does it?

ThePikey · Post by **ThePikey** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:41 am

Portapotties are next to Catharsis I see...

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