Sorry, but a formless wail/sigh/groan is what does it for me right now ( Read more... )

I have a big collection of board games. I mean, really big. Not everything gets played and for the last couple of weeks I have been trying to trade away a lot of the dross in my collection - not bad games necessarily, just things I don't think I will ever play, to trade for things I have always been looking for ( Read more... )

Tickets for Burning Man go on sale online at 1200 hrs California time. I go to the site at 1200 hrs California time and there is an ad page telling me how great InHouse Ticketing is and how they will solve all my problems as an event planner ( Read more... )

BURNING MAN 2005 AFTER ACTION REPORT

Yeah, this one is done kind of linear, but let’s not be all McLuhanesque about it.

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I'm leaving for Black Rock City in three days. Yikes ( Read more... )

... is how I feel these days when I think about all I have to get done in the next while. Fortunately I have help.
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As promised, here are a few shots of the metal castings I made and gave away at Burning Man. Apologize for image quality but I was going for small file sizes.

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After Action Report (AAR)

Exercise BURNING MAN 2004

27 August - 8 September, 2004

Black Rock City, Nevada, USA

1. GENERAL

The general purpose of BURNING MAN 2004 was for the writer’s unit to deploy from its base in Victoria, BC, participate in this event with host nation (HN) personnel as part of “Camp Gothalot”, and to redeploy to Victoria.

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OK, instead of writing the BM thing all boring and linear, I am just going to hang out a bare schedule of narrative blocks and jam in a bunch of HTML anchors so you can just flick off to different sidebars and anecdotes, all jumbled together at the bottom of the page. In the end the whole story will be here in one piece, just not all at once. OK? ( ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got my ticket for Los Angeles, the real point of no return for going to Burning Man. I will be going down to "LA" (I guess I can call it that now, or do I have to wait unitl I've actually been there?) via Alaska Airlines on Friday, August 22. My editor friend Joe will pick me up, we'll have a Saturday to stock up on last-minute items ( Read more... )