Actually I'm missing something. This was my 7th burning man. I wear shorts and a t-shirt, as do most all my camp mates. And as do hundreds of our friends up there. We fix bicycles all week, and actually listened to the greatest hits of the 70s, except when the guys across the street were playing old black sabbath really loud, and then that was the soundtrack.
Anyone, including you, who try to describe it with such a broad brush end up only describing a small slice of it. It is a little bit of what everyone tells you it is...really, only a little bit.
There is no "pretty established aesthetic" that I can find, and I'm very active and invloved on and off the playa. BTW - some people base their idea of there being an established burning man style on the pictures they see of the event. Trouble is, all us many many thousands not dressed up (and we are the vast majority) don't get our picture taken, since we don't attract much attention.
A while back everyone thought we would run out of IP addresses by now...that hasn't turned out to be the case. Conservative estimates place the date about 20 years out.
Not that that's the only reason to do it...but that's one that might get everyone off their butts to do something about it.
I hate to sound like the old man here but it sounds like many, or even most, of you aren't old enough to have seen or read John Dvorak until the last couple of years. The man has _ALWAYS_ been a blithering idiot. In 1984, when the Mac came out, his argument against it was that the DOS running PC was a computer built by men, for men. He just recently pulled the same crap by calling the Apple iBook a girlie computer. If you don't like something, come up with a good reason, but leave the nonsense out of it. Also, he recently wrote a column about how Linux isn't worth a damn in a server environment...go check out the October 5 issue of PC magazine though; Winn Rosch has a much more sensible article. I don't know a single person in my circle (and we are a fairly high thinking circle) who thinks this man deserves an audience...sadly he has one. Dvorak obviously has the ear of somebody, and until he fully discredits himself (comparing cracking to soliciting sex from minors is a good start) we will have to continue to put up with his prattle...I have had to put up with it for the last 15 years...let's hope that this Rush Limbaugh of the digerati doesn't hold those ears for another 15.
In my world, the 'suits' don't get to decide what we run...they tell me what they want to do, and I tell them how we can do it...and if Linux is the way to do it, then that's how us geeks do it.
Am I just in some lucky little pocket of non-reality out here??
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Actually I'm missing something. This was my 7th burning man. I wear shorts and a t-shirt, as do most all my camp mates. And as do hundreds of our friends up there. We fix bicycles all week, and actually listened to the greatest hits of the 70s, except when the guys across the street were playing old black sabbath really loud, and then that was the soundtrack.
Anyone, including you, who try to describe it with such a broad brush end up only describing a small slice of it. It is a little bit of what everyone tells you it is...really, only a little bit.
There is no "pretty established aesthetic" that I can find, and I'm very active and invloved on and off the playa. BTW - some people base their idea of there being an established burning man style on the pictures they see of the event. Trouble is, all us many many thousands not dressed up (and we are the vast majority) don't get our picture taken, since we don't attract much attention.
Hear hear!!!!
I used to be exclusively Macintosh...but I actually bought a Wintel PC just so I could play Grim Fandango (way back when). How sick is that?
I do wish there were more games like those being produced.
Car rental places in South Africa are even offering the option of renting cars with or without the flamethrowers installed.
OR.....drumroll.....
Just learn Python and don't worry about how many more times Perl ends up needing to be reset.
A side effect of a label like that could, of course, be higher sales.
Ever seen that man dance? He has no rhythm!!! What's all the fuss about???
>``It looks like beige,'' he said. ``I don't know
>what else to call it. I would welcome
>suggestions.''
>In January, Baldry called the turquoise ``cosmic
>spectrum green.'' But the pair offered no fancy
>name for the new beige hue.
How about Cosmic Spectrum Off White?
Where is that soy bomber guy when you really need him??? >:-)
Seems to me that we humans are just genetically designed to be bilked and suckered.
How else could things like this have worked?
How else could the whole "Nigerian banking transfer with your help needed desperately" genre still be successful after all these years?
A fool and his money do part quite often.
A while back everyone thought we would run out of IP addresses by now...that hasn't turned out to be the case. Conservative estimates place the date about 20 years out.
Not that that's the only reason to do it...but that's one that might get everyone off their butts to do something about it.
What Mr Albertson is saying is that Iomega drives its employees to drink, and that can be problematic in SLC. That's all.
No joke!!
Vegas was built and financed by Mormons...pick up some history about it sometime...it's fascinating.
I have a Sony CD player that plays CDRs I record just fine...kinda blows anti piracy out of the water as the motive.
Has it been brought up yet hat people were having troubles with censorware filtering content having to do with "Gore" and "Bush" just recently?
Talk about getting hoist by your own petard!
I hate to sound like the old man here but it sounds like many, or even most, of you aren't old enough to have seen or read John Dvorak until the last couple of years. The man has _ALWAYS_ been a blithering idiot. In 1984, when the Mac came out, his argument against it was that the DOS running PC was a computer built by men, for men. He just recently pulled the same crap by calling the Apple iBook a girlie computer. If you don't like something, come up with a good reason, but leave the nonsense out of it. Also, he recently wrote a column about how Linux isn't worth a damn in a server environment...go check out the October 5 issue of PC magazine though; Winn Rosch has a much more sensible article. I don't know a single person in my circle (and we are a fairly high thinking circle) who thinks this man deserves an audience...sadly he has one. Dvorak obviously has the ear of somebody, and until he fully discredits himself (comparing cracking to soliciting sex from minors is a good start) we will have to continue to put up with his prattle...I have had to put up with it for the last 15 years...let's hope that this Rush Limbaugh of the digerati doesn't hold those ears for another 15.
>Would there still be 30 Million people using it?
Ummm...this same argument has been applied to MS Windows as well.
Enuf said.
CTP
In my world, the 'suits' don't get to decide what we run...they tell me what they want to do, and I tell them how we can do it...and if Linux is the way to do it, then that's how us geeks do it.
Am I just in some lucky little pocket of non-reality out here??
CTP