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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."
only been up for 10 mins and the server's already /.'d... w00t
--DV
In this day it is safer to be a ninja than a samurai
One word:
Boobies!
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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> Are naked hippies work safe?
Are you wearing your steel-toed shoes and eye protection?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Just thought you might like to know.
Give me pagan over christian any day!
Looks like we're smoking a server too. ;) /.'ed before 40 posts!
-=fshalor
And they must be smoking the cpu right now, cause the site is burning and slashdotted!
No sig for now.
Yep.. already down..
:-)
If you gotta burn your server/ISP this is the way to do it..
Yazeran
Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer
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.
Wow... that was brave. 2, 3 and 5 megpixel images. Burning Man? Burning Server... smouldering ... it probably deserves it, though. Nothing short of an exorcism would take out the images of dirty hippies.
Hey, don't leave out Easter!
The only grammatical error in that part of the sentence is the redundant comma. It should read "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".
Really.
Here's how to parse it:
"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)".
So you see, it says "but most X probably don't know that Y is Z". Nothing wrong there, eh?
Shows that being grammatically correct isn't all there is to being well-written.
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).
Is Slashdot still relevant?
This just in, the burning man is DEAD (much as many burning men are). Netcraft confirms it, go be not-lazy and google it.
Do the editors even read the articles they allow on /.? This shouldnt be on here
dude you were seriously just asking to be slashdotted to hell with that many pictures on your website.
Why doesn't Slashdot automatically coralize their links?
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