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Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

Burning Man tip 04 - Don’t bring a rug. Make a floorcloth!

A rug can provide a haven, from the playa, for your feet; reduce dust (ha!) in your shade shelter; and introduce visual interest in your camp. However, a rug can also be hard to transport; a magnet for dust; and nearly impossible to manage when wet, muddy, and heavy.
Make a floorcloth instead. Floorcloth […]

Flickr tools, toys, and things to try

On my “someday” list, I had this entry, “Upload photos to Flickr.com account.” I had created the account a year ago, but hadn’t used it.
My comet McNaught pictures inspired me to give it a try. It was easy. Real easy. I installed a helper program that I got from the flickr site, uploaded […]

Burning Man tip 03 - Have a supplies/gear tent

After posting my first Burning Man tip, Erik suggested the topic of using “two tents: one for sleeping, and one for your dusty, playafied gear”.
Excellent idea. I’ve been doing it for awhile, though I can’t remember when I started, or how I heard of it. If you have a small sleeping tent, trying […]

Hack your brain

To see more of Pete Moraites’ amazing work, visit his site at http://www.petemoraites.com/.

Burning Man tip 02 - Simplify everything

Burning Man happens in 33 weeks. Tickets go on sale next week. Have you started planning yet?
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
    ~ Hans Hoffman
After years of believing that I had to take two of everything, “just in case”, I’ve been scaling back what I […]

Ordered list numbering workaround

Ordered list with descending numbers:

5. Blue
4. Green
3. Purple
2. Yellow
1. Red

Here’s how it’s done…

Burning Man tip 01 - Water bottle lantern

There are 34 weeks until Burning Man 2007. Every week I’ll post a new idea, tip, or suggestion. Some of these will be things I’ve learned the hard way, other ideas are clever solutions my friends have developed.

Week 01 idea: Because hydration is so important at Burning Man, and it gets pretty dark at night […]

2007 articles, ideas, and possibilities

I have a few articles in the works and a number of ideas for future articles: using a slide and photo scanning service; the second parts of the time-lapse video and EL wire butterfly prop articles; Burning Man tips; some sculpture and bookbinding projects; and a GPS datalogging idea that I’ve been think about.
I also […]

Computer Configuration Management Kept Simple

Back in the IBM-PC days, I kept all my computer detritus in a small box. I would have to sort through it to find what I needed. It was always a struggle ― is that the information for the multi-IO card that died last month (which I should have thrown out), or the one that’s […]