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The Tech of Burning Man
Marc Merlin wrote:"Some of you have probably heard of burning man, but most of those
who haven't gone probably don't know that saying that it's just a
bunch of naked hippies meeting in the desert to smoke pot, is a
very unfair description of the event. I have been writing reports of it for the last 4 years now (akin to
the linux show reports I used to do), and my 2005 report is the biggest one yet (1440 pictures, and a fairly complete overview page, showing the highlights) You can also look at the burning man index page (with pictures from the sky), and look at my first 2002 report for a view as a first timer."
damn italics....
With "summarize" you mean collect all the pictures of naked women, put them on a real server and post a link?
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The cameras, bikes, and gears look a lot cooler after you've smoked the pot.
naked, boobs, girls, fire, man, dancing, makeup, UFOs, communication devices, joy, drugs, weird, tents, sex.
:)
Now search for the intruder
No sig for now.
Hey, don't leave out Easter!
You need smarter friends is all. Are you a hippie?
--- Jason Olshefsky
Karma: Poser (mostly affected by adding this line long after everyone else did)
Maybe I just need more sleep. In a bed not a tent. Gah, I have tents on the brain now. It's an intents feeling.
Yes, my whole pointless ramble was designed to get you to read that inane pun.
*smirk*
Troc.
Troc's dubious podcast and blog: http://www.trocnet.net
(*) Okay, iPods are *way* mainstream now. Replace with whatever that pretentious rag is recommending they buy this month.
No, they're not... only in big cities where the yuppie/normal person ratio is absurdly high. iPods are still an overpriced yuppie toy (along with VW's, of course).
So this is off-topic. But re: the Twiddler 2 (which you ask about in your sig): I had a twiddler (original version) and found it pretty neat, but quirky, and not so neat that I spent the time it would have taken to become truly proficient. I gave it to a friend a while ago; it refused to operate for me through a USB adapter, and fewer and fewer of my computers have PS/2 ports.
... they're not *unresponsive*, but they felt to me a bit like a Fischer-Price toy or a volvo -- externally smooth and well-finished, but sort of clunky / chunky in their operation, required more finger pressure to depress than I would have liked. However, my overall impression was good, and I did at least for a while have it down well enough to laboriously "type" a few hundred words at a time, but the backspace key was the one most often pressed ;) (I can't recall if that was a chord or a single key to press ...)
:) (I'm lazy enough that I'll check later, but IIRC it just has a USB plug, eh?)
The device itself was well-constructed and sturdy, but the buttons are
These comments sound negative, but part of this is also that I'm a slow developer of muscle memory; very possibly you're more adept at learning new typing systems. I'm sure it *is* learnable, but I didn't get well into the groove. I would be happy to try the current version, if it works well with Linux and Mac OS X, and doesn't have a complicated cabling system
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5