Fire at the Skies

FLAME EFFECTS ARE A GO AT DARK SKIES!
As of 8:30 am on Thursday, Clark County Fire Department has approved fire performers at Dark Skies. This means fire spinners, breathers, and others are allowed to perform at this event. WHAT IS NOT PERMTED: Compressed gasses, that means NO PROPANE. Sorry. We had hoped to get that but it just didn’t happen. We are also getting approved for aerial fireworks during our icon burn on Saturday night. Do not bring any of this stuff, only our pre approved shot schedule is going to go up on Saturday night. (and it’s gonna be awesome!) We greatly appreciate the communities support and understanding. This has been a major challenge but hopefully we are on the right track to becoming one of the west coasts premiere legal fire events. Hope to see you all on Roach Lake this weekend.

[From Cameron]

- But I still need a lift.

Darker skies

Okay, not only is it looking grim to get propane and fire performance okayed for dark skies, but it's looking like I may not go.

My ride options are very limited and all "iffy". If anyone is looking to carry a freak to Primm, please let me know.

Microwave Tip

Actually this is two tips in one.
I was taught, some time back, that if you have a dinner roll or muffin that's too dry, you can put it in the microwave oven with a glass of water. Nuke for a minute and the roll softens right up.

I was boiling water for ramen when this little fact slipped into my mind. I looked inside the Microwave which had not been cleaned since before the pre-Burningman rush. I took a sponge to the various stains that would normally require a hammer and chisel to remove and to my surprise, they all wiped off! Every bit, every tomato sauce splatter, every soup overflow, everything came right off. It took a total of about 10 seconds to get the thing looking like new. Give it a try sometime. Just put a bowl of water in there and nuke it until it's steaming. Pull out the bowl and wipe down....

Well, I'm back, and my @$$ hurts....

...does that mean I had a good time?

Actually, I think I may have broken my Coccyx. I was trying to lower my hammock and failed a knot-tying roll. The hammock came down, and I sat in the dust having a "fuckin Meoowwww" moment. Now it hurts to sit in certain positions. Fortunately, the driving position isn't one of them, so the trip back was fine. I'm hoping this is just a well positioned bruise.

So, m-w I taught about 2 dozen people to breathe fire. Oddly, this made me feel like a part of burningman more than anything else. I may have to do it again...just for the kicks of it. But, of course I had ulterior motives, and the Ocean of fire finally had more than enough people to break the record. In the picture you see us just about to get the first real attempt off. That's me between the lines. It was a blast... heh.

Friday I got blitzed on some double strength margaritas, so I didn't get much done then. But burn night was awsome. I put the portion of our show where we pulled out the dragon here.
Watching the nearby FIRE TROUPES stop to watch was priceless....

Sunday, I got asked to help out with the temple burn again. Totally cool. I provided the 4 torches used to light it and got to light them with a fire ball. Nice to get appreciation.

Check the burningman site for pictures, all the ones I took are in my profile.

Final packing

Okay, so i managed to get my new bike working. So I'll be able to carry around my sound system as needed. But more importantly, I got it AND the 6 dragon pieces to cooperate inside the van. Now packing is just a matter of picking up everything in my apartment and stuffing it in and around those two.
Still have to do laundry, but I still plan to leave first thing tomorrow.

Never forget

Okie dokie, here'a wild idea that struck me recently.

There's a time theory which states that every choice, every decision creates a new timeline. This leads to near infinite timelines. However, this theory assumes -conscious- thought. Thus, no timelines were created until man came around, no? Silly.

My thinking is that EVERY decision creates a new reality. Conscious, subconsious, quantum, etc. decisions from every creature reflect a new reality. In fact, we might say that every moment of time is delineated by one of these events. Not just seconds, not nanoseconds, but every moment of time, down to the smallest possible unit (hehe, atomic time :).

Now, let's say that moving from one stream to an alternate stream is actually much easier than we ever imagined. Since each second produces a functional infinity of alternate universes or timelines sliding readily from one to another /could/ be easy since all the closest ones happen to be closely related to the decisions that we know to have been made.

Okay, now take into account that we have no idea why memory is faulty. For all practical purposes, the way we store memories should be perfect. Well, what if it is? I mean, what if we are able to perfectly store every memory we ever had? But, here's the hitch, every time you "forget" something, or remember incorrectly, it's actually that you come from a universe or timeline whare it actually happened differently.

Deja Vu? What if you actually did just experience that moment, and now you've shifted to a universe where it didn't happen the first time? Forgot a birthday? maybe your original universe didn't actually let you hear it? Ever had your whole perception of the world shift radically? Perhaps you just shifted to a place where the world is actually different.

If ya really want to have your head messed with, ask me about the secret of mirrors... :)

Big Bang bomb

Okay, I just figured this out and I need to get it written down. Something about the big bang theory has always bothered me, and there was something humanocentric about all these galaxies moving away from us, but not from each other.

But here's the final stake in the Heart. Okay, according to einsteins theory of relativity, 1) light moves at a constant rate, 2) the source of light emission can move at whatever speed it wants, the emitted light moves at the speed of light, period. Regardless of the velocity of the emitting source, the light wave is emitted in an unchanged state.

In order for us to see red shift via doppler, WE would have to be moving away from the lightwaves at the appropriate speeds. As illustrated in the image, it's impossible to move away from all sources in every direction. If the blue dot is us, and the red dots are the galaxies moving away from us the blue dot cannot move in a direction that could cause a red shift.

Further, the theory that galaxies are moving at velocities so incredible that they emission source is moving away from us sufficiently fast enough to produce the wave over an extended expanse of space has it's issues as well. The velocities needed to shift light would also create a noticable DIMINISHING of light within our observable attention span.. In short, Nearby galaxies would have to fade to the intensity of farther galaxies within the period of our observance, perhaps even within the measurment of a single evening's viewing. If they're moving away at 0.1 lightspeed the radiation sphere would be growing, relative to us at phenomenal rates, which would rapidly diminsh the avaliable light directed specifically at us.

The theories of red shift produced by gravity wells is entirely more plausible, though with disturbing consequenses to universal origin.