Burning Man

[gfish]

So, it turns out I'll be going to Burning Man this year.

With my dad.

This is going to be interesting.

(I know at least a couple other of you out there are going. We should arrange some way to find each other.)

Comments

[niac.livejournal.com]

Come visit me in Ea-Cup-Tay, we're a part of Gigsville, and we should be on Esplanade.

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

This "finding each other" process is surprisingly difficult. :-)

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

No joke. I never did find xaotica, even if I did eventually find her camp.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Hot damn! I wish I were going with you both, of course. I'm not sure I'd want to camp with you both, though. I'm too much of a party girl. :D

Interesting to say the least. Assuming your dad has a pretty good idea of what it's about - he's read the stuff on their site, right? - that he would even agree to go speaks volumes about him.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Hell, it was his idea. He overheard me mention to my mom that I was thinking of going, and jumped on it. Turns out he has wanted to go for some time.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Nyeh heh heh. Awesome.

[darlingfreak.livejournal.com]

Burning Man, Awesome.

Burning Man/parent, *brain freeze*

Still, jealous. I've always wanted to go to one.

[carmiel.livejournal.com]

Congrats!
I am like so jealous. :)

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Hey, not sure of our placement yet, but Kung Fu Sock Monkeys will be the camp. We'll hope to have Neon KungFu signs, a Kung Fu Sock Monkey Wind Sock and pneumatic sock monkey cannons.

You guys just doing a little two-man camp?

-B.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, nothing too fancy. I'm planning on taking the forge, offer general smithing services (like bending over the top of rebar stakes). That will be fun. Looks like we'll have a very nice solar electric setup as well.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

I should pick your brains on the solar. I picked-up an el-cheapo solar panel for lighting (Harbor Freight, 45 watt system, sans battery, for $180 on sale). I need to figure-out the appropriate deep-cell battery to go with it.

I want to build a thermo-siphoning solar hot-water heater, but don't know that I'll have time to pull it off.

-B.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

A solar hot water heater should be pretty trivial in that environment. I'll just be taking the solar shower I bought for the Mackenzie trip.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Batch solar is pretty trivial. Doing anything more flexible will require a little plumbing. One of my campmates whines that solar shower setups are either scorching hot at the end of the day, or cold by morning shower time. I want to fix both those problems. So, panel (made of either coroplast or old fridge coil) thermosiphoning to a insulated reservior (beverage dispenser type thing).

-B.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

One of my big design goals is t eliminate (or mostly so) rebar from our camp. Or at least get the higher strength grade of rebar. Driving the bent-over rebar is a PITA, pulling also--campmate/leader says he loses a lot of rebar to bending, etc. every year. I was pondering doing some custom fabricated stakes out of aluminum, but might settle for some affordable commercial solutions at this point.

-B.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was remembering your human-powered hovercraft idea....BM would be the most excellent venue for that....

-B.