Your secret tip you are now ready to reveal?

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:57 am

Before you set your tent.
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Count your stakes large and small. .
After a week is spent.
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When you leave again count them all

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 10:05 am

geekster wrote:An endless loop recording of someone pissing really confuses the hell out of people in the potty line ... for about 5 minutes or so ... frustrates them even more if there is a short break and then it starts all over again.

Oh you're a bad person.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 10:09 am

Swedish ammo bandolier. Lots of little pockets, looks like Chewbacca.

disrup-sean · Post by **disrup-sean** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:20 pm

Don't buy the worthless crap trash bags they sell at Safeway, esp. for your compostable waste. Unless you want a week's worth of putrid chicken bones and diseased liquified melon rinds leaking or breaking through and spilling all over your car and onto the highway.

Go to home despot or costco or the hardware store and buy CONTRACTOR bags. They're made from the same black trash-bag plastic, but much THICKER. Check the box, make sure they're at least 2mil thick. They're a couple bucks more but it's soooo worth it.

I bought 42-gallon 3mil bags last week at Home Despot on sale, I think it was $13 for a box of 32. Enough for me, my campmates and a few for neighbors.

Cheers

Sean

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:31 pm

disrup-sean wrote:Don't buy the worthless crap trash bags they sell at Safeway, esp. for your compostable waste. Unless you want a week's worth of putrid chicken bones and diseased liquified melon rinds leaking or breaking through and spilling all over your car and onto the highway.

Go to home despot or costco or the hardware store and buy CONTRACTOR bags. They're made from the same black trash-bag plastic, but much THICKER. Check the box, make sure they're at least 2mil thick. They're a couple bucks more but it's soooo worth it.

I bought 42-gallon 3mil bags last week at Home Despot on sale, I think it was $13 for a box of 32. Enough for me, my campmates and a few for neighbors.

Cheers

Sean

Very well said.... Heavy duty works the best... I use the trash cans for recycling but place a heavy brinkin the bottom b-4 the trash bag.. the wind has not taken it away yet... YET....

Davoid · Post by **Davoid** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:35 pm

Okay, for real this time:

If your bike has a kickstand, a small scrap of plywood placed on the ground will enable it to actually do its job, instead of sinking into the playa like a stiletto heel.

I'm about to see if I can secure a small piece of wood right onto the bottom of the kickstand, to obviate the need to carry something around. Then again, if it's really deep this year, maybe it's back to the lean-the-bikes-against-each-other deal.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:19 pm

Davoid wrote:Okay, for real this time:

If your bike has a kickstand, a small scrap of plywood placed on the ground will enable it to actually do its job, instead of sinking into the playa like a stiletto heel.

I'm about to see if I can secure a small piece of wood right onto the bottom of the kickstand, to obviate the need to carry something around. Then again, if it's really deep this year, maybe it's back to the lean-the-bikes-against-each-other deal.

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And yet another reason to ride a three wheeler

capjbadger · Post by **capjbadger** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:24 pm

unjonharley wrote:
Davoid wrote:Okay, for real this time:

If your bike has a kickstand, a small scrap of plywood placed on the ground will enable it to actually do its job, instead of sinking into the playa like a stiletto heel.

I'm about to see if I can secure a small piece of wood right onto the bottom of the kickstand, to obviate the need to carry something around. Then again, if it's really deep this year, maybe it's back to the lean-the-bikes-against-each-other deal.

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And yet another reason to ride a three wheeler

I've heard that taking a tennis ball, popping a hole in it, and putting that on the end of the kickstand works very well. No wood to carry around.

capjbadger · Post by **capjbadger** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:34 pm

capjbadger wrote:That reminds me... Who was the damn nut that stuck a bunch of concrete footprints out in the middle of the playa without any lights on them?? Damn near wrecked my bike on one while riding one night. Got lucky and saw it with my headlamp at the last second and dodged. I though those open playa art pieces were supposed to be lit?

Was anyone going to answer this?

soupman · Post by **soupman** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:06 pm

Nope.

But I DO have a tip... bring a small spray bottle with you wherever you go... that way if you have to go #2 you can spray down that sandpaper-like 1 ply toilet tissue a little bit and save the old brown eye a LOT of wear and tear. (It's also quite refreshing in the middle of the afternoon and gives you a nice, *fresh* feeling)

disrup-sean · Post by **disrup-sean** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:42 pm

[quote="Davoid"]If your bike has a kickstand, a small scrap of plywood placed on the ground will enable it to actually do its job, instead of sinking into the playa like a stiletto heel. [/quote]

Also: make sure to attach small scraps of plywood to your stiletto heels, or they'll sink right into the playa like a bike kickstand.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:36 pm

"Who was the damn nut that stuck a bunch of concrete footprints out in the middle of the playa without any lights on them??"

They were lit some nights. It was part of "The Passage" art installation. They were the footprints of the mother and child. They were supposed to be lit with fire but I can't recall now if they were or not most nights. I was so toasted by the end of the day from working on an art installation last year that I was generally in bed before midnight.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:14 am

http://www.pussysnorkel.com/facts.htm

ScoutDG · Post by **ScoutDG** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:07 pm

Trucker's hitch:
[url]http://www.constructionwork.com/resourc ... _knot.html[/url]

P.S. Why isn't the !@#$%^&*! url switch working?

Atar · Post by **Atar** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:39 pm

Because you need to tick off the box that says 'disable BBCode in this post'. Its beneath the white box where you type your text.

ScoutDG · Post by **ScoutDG** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:44 pm

Thought I did that. Trying again (trucker's hitch):
http://www.constructionwork.com/resourc ... _knot.html

{Nope. Oh well -- just cut & paste it. A very nice instruction for a very handy knot.)

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:50 pm

it's the apostrophe in the url ... a bug in the software used here.

Replace the apostrophe with %27

But in any case, the URL you gave is broken, doesn't work.

http://www.constructionwork.com/resourc ... _knot.html

Okay, I see the other problem ... a space got inserted in the word "hitch" Nothing I can do about it ... another bug in the software here. Apparently it has something to do with long URLs

Okay, the space shows up in visual formatting but not in the actual text of the post which breaks cut/paste.

So ... get rid of the apostrope and get rid of the space if cut-pasting, or just click the link I made above.

bethalyse · Post by **bethalyse** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:40 pm

i find that picture of the elephant's trunk held open with a stick really upsetting! why is that on here, and was the elephant ok?

bethalyse · Post by **bethalyse** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:52 pm

anyways, a couple of good tricks...if you wipe down your dishes with baby wipes before rinsing them you can avoid moopy grey water...better yet bring paper plates and bowls; it makes very little additional trash and saves a lot of work.

LOVE the idea of freezing 2L bottles with water for block ice before leaving for the playa--thanks for that one! this year i'm giong to try laying a towel down over our ice so our food doesn't end up swimming in cooler-water by the end of the week. it will soak up some of the excess anyways.

and this year, cook less, freeze more. last year the FABULOUS Camp Question gave us a ziplock full of some kind of pre-cooked super pasta that our whole camp snacked on all week. this year i'm taking it to the next level and freezing all kinds of pre-made goodies (chinese take-out, burritos, beef stew, whatever) to bring out with us. when you want to eat, take it out and let it thaw and voila, dinner for everyone!

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:06 pm

bethalyse wrote:this year i'm giong to try laying a towel down over our ice so our food doesn't end up swimming in cooler-water by the end of the week. it will soak up some of the excess anyways.

What we do is to have a large ice chest with the fruit and veggies in it. But we place a large pot in the middle for the ice. This keeps the fresh stuff cold without soaking in water.. Always keep any ice chest in the shade and if you can off the ground. This will keep the chest colder longer.. BTW the melted ice from the pot can be drank if the pot was clean.

Never drink the water from an ice chest that has food and ice mixed in together.. You will find yourself in the med tent for sure..

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:23 am

HD is selling cases of water bottles that come up to, roughly, 4 gallons per case. I'm getting some of those and freezing one case, split it between my two main ice chests. I have a softsides ice chest for the chocolate but that's going to be cooled with freeze packs because chocolate and water don't mix. Even with Ziplocs...

Davoid · Post by **Davoid** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:59 am

bethalyse wrote:i find that picture of the elephant's trunk held open with a stick really upsetting! why is that on here, and was the elephant ok?

'Cause it's the TIP of his trunk. TIP. Sheesh.

As for the rest, I dunno, ask the elephant. It's his secret.

Tip I'm ready to reveal: Burning Man is occasionally upsetting.

Das Bus · Post by **Das Bus** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:20 am

Davoid wrote:
bethalyse wrote:i find that picture of the elephant's trunk held open with a stick really upsetting! why is that on here, and was the elephant ok?
'Cause it's the TIP of his trunk. TIP. Sheesh.

As for the rest, I dunno, ask the elephant. It's his secret.

Tip I'm ready to reveal: Burning Man is occasionally upsetting.

Took me a second to get that. Geez I need a drink!

Hoolie · Post by **Hoolie** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:20 am

ScoutDG wrote:Trucker's hitch:
http://www.constructionwork.com/resourc ... _knot.html

P.S. Why isn't the !@#$%^&*! url switch working?

Click your "Profile" button at the top of the page. Scroll down to "Preferences." Select "Yes" next to "Always Allow BBCode."

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