The coldest winter I ever spent
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In one paragraph there is a story about a woman who refuses to leave the hospital and come back in a few days when they can see her child because she doubts the child will last that long. In the very next paragraph she says…
…”Previously, I paid 700 Burundi francs [$7] for consultation, but now I don’t have to pay a thing,” she says as she inches along the long queue of patients waiting to see the only paediatrician on duty at the hospital…
– Using Pure Data to make the Serpent Mother into a giant fire organ with awsome special effects!
– Banging on metal, helping to put the Serpent Mother together
– Spending time with Charlotte and friends.
I haven’t told my readers (ie: you) enough about what’s been going on. Here’s a little personal bit about the Serpent Mother project that you won’t fully understand because I haven’t given you context.
I wrote some stuff to a guy interested in our project and then another guy on our project paraphrased what I wrote with…
Tad wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, lee sonko wrote
> lots of good stuff about the brain part: PD and color sequencing software
“lots of good stuff” Hurray! That sounds like buy-in. :-)
This was our camp at Burning Man in 2006 and 2007. The info below is just about the 2006 camp. I’ve got lots more pix but… phew, there’s not enough time in a day to post them. And you you really want to see them?
Low Key Peep Flambe Camp is a… well, it’s a pretty low key camp. The assumed group responsibilities are pretty minimal. We’re not nessesarily dining together, or showering together or building a giant humongus camp focal point together. Instead, maybe we’ll dine together if we’re ‘home’ at the same time. We certainly won’t be washing one another’s dishes! Maybe we’ll hang out under our (not so very large but quite homey and pleasant) shade structure together. We’ll certainly watch out for one another, keeping the dust madness away.
And of course, there will be Peeps. And they will be lit on fire and consumed with glee.
Low Key Peep Flambe Camp is
Lee
Charlotte
Ion
Barry
Coral
Justin
Kate (not confirmed yet)
Phil (not confirmed yet)
Honorary Peeps
Marah
Some random guy Barry saw on the street
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Forcasted highs for Sunday
Brentwood: 107F . . . 54 miles away
Walnut Creek: 100F . . . 21 miles away
Berkeley: 84F . . . 13 miles away
Downtown SF: 65F
Presidio: 60F
Hmm, I could make an audio recording of the entire 7 days. At 1 MB a minute, the whole thing, 24 x 7 would only be 10 gigabytes.
Hmm.
But I’d want some video as well. Recording video the whole time would be a big bother though.
Hmmm…
Me at work:
>> Do you know how I can allow my Windows and Exchange passwords can be
>> different? If not, say so and I’ll go googling for info.
Him:
>I do not know off hand, I would need to research it.
So does that mean he -will- research it or he -could- research it? And why didn’t he take me up on my offer? Maybe he didn’t read my whole (2 sentence long) email.
“What is it?”
“It’s an herbal mixture made up by a school teacher who got tired of being sick all the time.”
And yes, that was the full weight of the explanation.
I just posted the following to Craigslist. I suppose as problems go, this is a good one to have.
Looking to collaborate on large computer controlled fire art project
I’m working on a large, funded project for Burning Man. It is going to involve over 30 flame poofers, 100 full color LEDs, and hydraulic animatronics. There are several folks working on getting it all under computer control. I’m working on building the brain, a program that converts user input into a fantastic interactive fire and light art on the playa! I’ve started working with a programming environment called Pure Data. It’s been going well enough but I’d rather work and discover with a friend. Interested? Give me a buzz. There’s no pay, but it’s going to be a blast!