RE: Keeping gear clean at Burning Man

["Gary Lehmann" <healthquestrecruiter@earthlink.net>]

Just want to point out that (although I have never gone to Burning Man and
am not likely to camp out in the stinking desert with treasured gear), it 
is
as fine an example of a "Scene" (see earlier posts) as one could find--
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sottilaro [mailto:sine@zerocrossing.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:00 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Keeping gear clean at Burning Man


Here's how I keep my gear clean as a whistle at Burning Man.  First,
find a nice muddy area near your home and roll around in it naked for a
while.  Let it dry and then crumble it off.  If you can't find such a
mud situation, you can get facial grade beauty mud, which I'd actually
recommend, but it's expensive.  Get most of it off, leaving a fine dusty
layer on you skin.  You can wash your hands but try to keep it at a
minimum.  Don't bathe the day before (or two...)

Prior to this, stop at a army surplus store and buy some RTE meals in
those foil pouches.  Yum.  Don't forget to stay hydrated!

Next, get all your gear set up and ready to use.  Turn it all on and
make sure it's all working 100%.   Then (this is the important part)
DON'T LEAVE YOUR HOME.  That's right.

Don't go.

Instead, take a hit or two of acid (which you were going to do anyway)
and make all the damn noise you want! invite others for extra realistic
Burning Man action!  If you need to see more naked people, the internet
is chock full of sites.  Turning up the heat and all your halogen lamps
is also a plus, but I personally try not to waste natural resources.  At
the end of the day, light a roman candle if you can get your hands on
one.  If not some nice Jesus votive candles are fine, and inexpensive.

I've actually tested the above method, and I can confirm it's
effectiveness.  The next day, there's a little pocket of dirt near your
gear, but it's mostly clean as it ever was!

Burning Mark Sottilaro


On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 10:28  PM, Paul Weissman wrote:

>
>> i hope you're all looping at burningman.
>
> speaking of which... anyone figured out how to bring gear out to the
> desert
> without it getting dust infested yet?
>
> i want to build a hermetically sealed chamber for electronic gear,
> unless
> there's a better way someone has already thought of...
>
>