[RTO] Armchair explorers

She talks of Lady Adventurers like chicks have never heard of RPGs.
If only I had Jack Flanders' teleporting green armchair...

Since I am planning to go to Burning Man -- and specifically without a confirmed ride from SF yet, I am probably covered in the adventure department.
(cobweb last I remember, you aren't going. Is Freezing Man? If not, is there anything you want from the event that I could conceivably bring back for you? I still owe you some form of thanks for the ride y'all gave me a couple years ago.)

I have finally come up with an art idea for the playa. Direct Animation. (http://www.coolidge.org/balagan/devon_spring2003.html) However, this means I have to be hooked up with a projector and projectionist and someone who has successfully taped loops together before trying it for the first time in the middle of playa dust. I've seen projectors on the playa, so I know it happens.

I can get an extra reel, and sharpies, but, I'm sorta helpless after that. (Although, I could spend a lot of time just doing that, I suppose. Doodling for hours is fun anyway. Still, it'd be nice to see it projected around burners, and not just in the screening room at the Coolidge.)

Help!

I can EAT your spicy brains

One of the joys of contracting for medical publishers is overheard conversations of folks trying to figure out how to make an edible giant replica of a cell, out of jello, for an eventual company picnic. (I was drawn in with my own comments about why they should not to use a brain mold for anything like chocolate coating...)

"And the nucleus could be a darker color of Jello! This would be excellent!"

Of course, they have to be accurate, and not just vaguely cell-like, since they have tech illustrators and hard-core biologists to impress. Their bickering about what would look most convincingly like mitochrondria, and NOT render the final product inedible, was the stuff of which (geeky, shortlived) sitcoms are made.

(But what do I know? I've also theorized that Dogma was inspired by the thought of a demon escaping hell during a "routine possession". Sure, it's a fun movie, but that's the line that made me think, wow, had I thought of it, I'd've had to write a whole script that let me use it, too.)

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

It appears that my cell phone is broken. More so than just the weather storms, since jbsegal has the exact same phone style, and service, and his phone works just fine here.

Yeah, because I need this now. Ugh.

When I have no home voicemail, or home net, and have to sort out all my burning man and general bay area travel arrangements, and the possibility of having to leave in the middle of burning man for a conference call that no longer has enough legal lead time to happen before, but probably has to happen before I get back.

O joy, o rapture.

On the other hand, JB has fixed my new primary mail servers so that I won't miss apocalypse too terribly. Emacs behaving familiarly, so that my wee little non-sys admin brain can cope. Yay!