A Burner Lexicon

Teo del Fuego · Post by **Teo del Fuego** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 12:04 am

new item for the lexicon? "free floating snark"

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 11:52 am

I prefer 'free-range snarking.'

Not to be confused with dolphin-free snarking.

JStep · Post by **JStep** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 2:45 pm

Entry request/suggestion: JOTS. I know what they are, what does this stand for?

gaminwench · Post by **gaminwench** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:02 pm

Johnny On The Spot... I think it's the name of the company that used(?) to deal with our sh*t....

moonrise · Post by **moonrise** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:21 pm

Isotopia wrote:I prefer 'free-range snarking.'

Not to be confused with dolphin-free snarking.

Someday I simply must know the name of that blue thing...so cooooool!

PS Can't see it HERE but we all know it's THERE....someday you'll tell me!

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:23 pm

Someday I simply must know the name of that blue thing

The gif is a tesseract.

Also known as a 16-cell dual polytope. Its used by theorists to help conceptualize a 4th dimension.

moonrise · Post by **moonrise** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 4:19 am

Isotopia wrote:
Someday I simply must know the name of that blue thing

Tesseract....thanks

very cool

kitoconnell · Post by **kitoconnell** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:16 pm

We're back with an entry on 'Burnier-than-thou':
http://kitoconnell.com/lexicon-burnierthanthou/

JStep · Post by **JStep** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:29 pm

Isotopia wrote:
Someday I simply must know the name of that blue thing
The gif is a tesseract.

Also known as a 16-cell dual polytope. Its used by theorists to help conceptualize a 4th dimension.

Time is the 4th dimension, wouldn't a clock help conceptualize that better?

(I'm easily confused.)

kitoconnell · Post by **kitoconnell** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:32 pm

JStep, don't tell me you've never read "A Wrinkle In Time?" You poor neglected bastard.

JStep · Post by **JStep** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:02 pm

kitoconnell wrote:JStep, don't tell me you've never read "A Wrinkle In Time?" You poor neglected bastard.

Nope, no one's ever mentioned it.

moonrise · Post by **moonrise** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:07 pm

JStep wrote:
kitoconnell wrote:JStep, don't tell me you've never read "A Wrinkle In Time?" You poor neglected bastard.
Nope, no one's ever mentioned it.

I'm neglected too. Wiki had a nice teaser about The wrinkle in time. I'll have to give it a read sometime....maybe we can all do some "tessering".
The first planet sounded good to me!
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Burnier-than-thou; not sure that'll be fun, blech, leaves a bad taste in my brain.
I'll sit this one out and probably just watch. Those types are best not provoked and should be avoided, imho. (Sorry Kit, I can't be much help

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JStep · Post by **JStep** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 4:39 pm

I know the title, probably read reference to it but I've never read it. No one's ever mentioned it to me as something I should read though.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:14 am

dont feel bad, he's just being more literary-than-thou...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:09 am

Wasn't that available in a Scolastic Press edition?

Meaning: Didn't all children in the 70s of a certain (nerdy, perhaps) type read that?

FIGJAM · Post by **FIGJAM** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:25 am

Our 4th grade teacher read it to us.

moonrise · Post by **moonrise** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:19 am

Yeap, but hoepfully we've all forgotten more than we remember?

It did seem a bit familiar the W angles and all...you know all the W's! hahaha
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Kit, can't we skip and go onto next?

Here I'll wrap it up for ya' "burnier-than-thou = NON BURNER (an idiot can figure that one out) Ok, all done. (or return to it when I go in for a hernia surgery)
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kitoconnell · Post by **kitoconnell** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:41 am

Simon of the Playa wrote:dont feel bad, he's just being more literary-than-thou...

This totally made me laugh in light of the recent entry. Thanks, Simon.

A Wrinkle In Time was pretty influential to me, so even though it's a kids book it remains near and dear to my heart. I think it was the first book to get me thinking in a psychedelic way about space and time, and it's a strong argument against conformity in community which I think would appeal to my fellow Burners.

As an aside to moonrise: Chill out, it's just a word.

Today's Lexicon Entry is Church Night:
http://kitoconnell.com/lexicon-churchnight/

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:05 pm

i remember it too...

along the same lines of "to thy own self be true" i also always loved (and still do) "the point", by harry nilsson RIP

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:19 pm

Sadly, I have some discomfort since I found out she was christian.

moonrise · Post by **moonrise** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:08 pm

Where'd ya go kit?!

Church night sounds great (I'm a tad jealous of the Texas wherehouse)

Lookin' forward to more...

kitoconnell · Post by **kitoconnell** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:08 pm

Sorry guys. I have been pursuing another story about the local Burn and some other writing and so the Lexicon has been on temporary hiatus. Working on a longer series of connected words as well. Look for more entries soon.

On a related note, I'd like opinionated Burner philosophies to send me their thoughts on any of the 10 Burner principles for possible quotation in a future lexicon entry.

kitoconnell · Post by **kitoconnell** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:20 pm

As promised, A Burner Lexicon returns. Today we examine 'effigy' and )'(:
http://kitoconnell.com/lexicon-effigy/

To clarify my previous request, I am hoping to do a series of entries on each of the 10 Burner Principles. If you have strong opinions on this core facet of Burner philosophy I would like to hear from you. If you're interested, please contact me here via private message or via one of the other methods linked below and we can chat more about the project.

Also, as an aside, the Burner Lexicon main page (kitoconnell.com/lexicon/) recently surpassed 1,000 total views since the project began in late September. Shirt-cocking (http://kitoconnell.com/lexicon-shirtcocking/) remains the most viewed individual entry.

moonrise · Post by **moonrise** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:47 pm

One of our theme camp's leaders, also a long time burner, was a shirt-cocker...this never bothered me.
I did wonder if he went shirt-cocking out of the camp perimeters...I don't think he did...none of my biz...I never saw him do it, I think he usually wore something.

I heard about the guys with a gun that shoots underwear at
shirt-cockers...huh, do they truly exist?

kitoconnell · Post by **kitoconnell** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:49 pm

There was a functioning pants flinging device (pantszooka) at least one year at Burning Flipside -- the same year there was a shirtcocking parade.

A volunteer who made my camp possible at the last Flipside -- brought most of the water for our version of Human Carcass Wash -- spent most of the time shirt-cocking, sometimes on bicycle, sometimes with a little string wrapped around it...

kitoconnell · Post by **kitoconnell** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:21 am

No lexicon entry today -- instead I posted a profile of one of my favorite theme camps. Read the Camp Smack That Ass! story:
http://kitoconnell.com/smack-that-ass/

p.s. Contact me privately if you have an idea for a theme camp story like this one. :)

lucky.bastard · Post by **lucky.bastard** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:51 pm

Johnny On The Spot... I think it's the name of the [color=red]company that used(?) to deal with our sh*t...[/color]

"We'll take shit from Anybody "

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:40 am

lucky.bastard wrote:Johnny On The Spot... I think it's the name of the company that used(?) to deal with our sh*t...

"We'll take shit from Anybody "

Bought out by United Site Services about three years ago.
click the button in your profile that says "disable BBCode" in your profile and the colors will work...

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:24 am

"The Burning Man effigy is the trademarked logo of the BMORG and is integrated into many logos for theme camps or regional burns. Its shape also gives rise to the use of the symbol or emoticon )'( in text-based mediums. It is sometimes followed by an exclamation point for emphasis, )'(! or preceded by a # on Twitter, #)'( though it is not a proper hashtag. This symbol is used to playfully signal or celebrate oneâ€™s association with Burner culture."

I'm afraid it's been done before.

moonrise · Post by **moonrise** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:20 pm

Simon, you went all colorful on us huh?! Feeling happier than usual? Schweet!
Rainbows and Unicorns...for the record, for when Simon switches back to dawg knows what avatar, hehehe...
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)'(! count me in!
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~)'(~! count me on fire this time!
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Let's be sure we burn the correct Nixon ok gang? (not any living NIXONS! ouch!)

A Burner Lexicon

Burnier-than-thou

Church Night

Effigy

Camp Smack That Ass!