koyote

Wow. Just friggin wow.

I've worked (volunteered) WEF before, but this year was my first year on staff. Very intense.

Even more intense being Logistics- my part began at 7AM on Wednesday and ended 11:30 AM this morning (though we have plenty of work still to do over the next week or two cleaning up our stuff, the UC Davis campus quad is pretty much done.)

We had well over the annual "30,000 people"- If our norm is that then we probably exceeded 40k based on ... well, poop. It's all logistics, even the poop.


The staff have been GREAT- I came in a bit late, replacing a friend who had to drop his position only 6 weeks before the event. It was a bit rough the first 2 or 3 weeks with one of the directors, but everyone, by opening day, is as close as a clan marriage.

The kids had a blast, Leif got to meet Leif (the lead of Tempest) and hang out a bit, Astrid had a ball wandering around backstage. We made them shirts, with the logo and "property of main stage" on them.

hopefully next year I'll have a staff position that's a bit lighter on terms of straight through time on site- but I definitely want to be on staff again.

1: can whoever it is who steal bikes from our house PLEASE STOP, at least until mid May?? I don't have time to be building up bikes right now.

2: there are bike racks available for free at the domes, i should grab one so that self-locked bikes don't wander.

3: I'm not updating much because I'm *busy*. Logistics for the Whole Earth Festival is a purty damned big job, looks like. How big? I probably won't be spending a night at home from Wdenesday until tuesday night (the festival is friday afternoon, all day saturday and Sunday on Mother's Day weekend). 4 stages (and not tiny ones) to set up, solar panels, lighting, compost and recycling, first aid kits, tarps, hundreds of tables, straw bales, ice, bikes, trikes, the list gets bigger every few hours.

Wish and Dream list- I wish I had a pair of chaco sandals ($90 at REI but so worth it) and/or a pair of good flip flops. The kind with a real footbed, like reef makes, say. Really want something besides boots for at least part of my week of logisticking. (and 4 weeks of pre and post logisticking)

I wish I could find a way to afford an xtracycle. This isn't *just* for WEF, though it would make life an order of magnitude easier doing the event. But $400 ain't happening soon for us. (And here I am volunteering, economically makes no sense, but dude, it's WEF. This is a really major part of a lot of lives.)

A second utilitkilt in 37x21.5 is due. I really *like* and wear the carpenter's model, but mine is a: black and b: only one. Another thing that isn't just for WEF, but of course it will be on me as WEF staff as for as many years as we are near enough to staff the event.


Oddly enough, aside from warm bodies to help with setup and tear down, I'm otherwise completely set for the event. It's always the big things I'm missing.

If you have no clue what I'm talking about- http://wef.ucdavis.edu/

It's a huge and old and well maintained slice of heaven.

got a knife out in the mail today, another done without an order- now I have 3 stock pieces for a show someday. i need about 25

some phone thoughts, and how we got here-

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note, this entry is public. if anyone wants me to flist it for responses, I can. also, as long as I'm at it, if you find someone you want to crosspost to or send here, it's always fine.

read it here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/sql_server_hit_by_leap_year_bug/


Loki's left nut, people. LEAP YEAR crashes your ass?

how many first year CS students have had to deal with this in class projects? Come on, this is not simply MONUMENTALLY DUMB, it points to a corporate culture that lacks ANY concern for the customer experience. How could this NOT be on the QA checklist?

How do they stay in business?

We live in a rather extremely liberal bastion of the central valley in california.

We live in a rather extremely conservative area of california.


I have been noticing more and more that the advertised democrats have bumper stickers shouting for ending the war, voting for obamintonwards, school lunch programs, natural birthing, etc etc. And the right wing stickers about W04 and Mccain and support our troops and fingering obama.

But you don't even have to read the stickers to know which are which. You know why?

The liberal lefties NEVER HAVE ANMERICAN FLAGS.

Hello? dude! it's OUR country. OUR flag. ALL of us. I don't really care which side of which debate you are on, kay? I'm just sick of the polarization having gone so far.

So here's a little $1.50 reintegration exercise i want everyone to do.

Buy an american flag sticker. Get it onto a "liberal" or Democrat automobile. Don't care if it's yours.

If you ARE a democrat, go buy a pile of them and get your local campaigners to hand them out.

Take it offline, repost, crosspost- don't care if it's my idea or someone else's, but I think we should get it out there.

22:13 < koyote> sweet, i can hear radio bounce off the moon
22:14 < koyote> with a 54 foot 2/3 inverted vee longwire in a tree


'nuff said

http://www.arrl.org/?artid=7958

Levee report shocks city

<http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/637772.html>

After years of post-Hurricane Katrina pressure to improve the nation's
defenses against catastrophic flooding, the federal government took a
drastic step Tuesday.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it would place Sacramento's
fast-growing Natomas in a flood hazard zone, essentially halting
construction of homes, offices and stores until the levees are improved.




Wow. I'm struck dumb with pure awe. My government has TAKEN FIRM AND ENERGETIC ACTION.


with action like this, I know my disaster prep kit isn't redundant.

la luz is still out, half of davis has power.

kind of boring, at this point. I should go fix fence.

damn, my treo rowser sucks.

still no power.

walking out I the rain with jess, we found another downed power line - so another fix before they can turn on our lines.

currently at a candlelit local bar, sharing rumors.....

NPR reports 350000 people without power in sac region. PG&E reports 1600 SEPERATE power outage causes. No ETAs for us

posted from a treo again

power out in patches throughout Davis. with the exception of a 1 mile stretch on cowell, ALL traffic signals are out. some different grid segment? all shopping centers except the cowell strip between chevron and safeway appear to be out.

The ONLY gas station open is chevron by ihop. and they haven't raised prices to profiteer yet. They may not realize they are IT yet. (or they could be decent individuals. but my experience with recent franchise owners is .... bad)

Delta is open. IHOP (gag) is open.

power pole down across road 29 (pole line road) north of davis. road closed. broken RR signals.

lots of trees down.
storm goes on

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Current Mood: accomplished

Made this one for a friend.

15N20 steel, osage orange handles with linseed oil finish.


http://sietchtabr.googlepages.com/pettyy-1.jpg
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The first knife I forged was out of 5160, I've been carrying it around a bit, and it's great.

I had it wrapped with deerskin lace for a handle, but then decided to try this out: polyurethane glued a layer of thin linen cord, let it dry, then overwrapped with the linen again and linseed oiled it. Very comfy.

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I ganked this from my flist, but it needs to be shared.

100mog in a continental?

how about an H3 hummer with 600 HP, massive torque, and 60mpg?

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html

and this one is forged 1084. 8 5/8 inches, 4 1/2 inch blade. very heavy and thick, it's a utility/hunter/thrower.

check it out:

O1 steel from 1/8 inch stock, 8 1/4 inches OAL, 4 1/4 inch blade. Convex grind cuts all day smoothly. 18 degree edge bevel. Modern high performance skinner, not my normal trad stuff.






That's lemurbaby down there holding it. He's getting pretty big, you betcha.

worksafe unless you work for a republican with no sense of humor.

Dennis kucinich on the colbert report

Colbert: "This is the famous pocket constitution.. did you shrink this down yourself?" Kucinich: "No, no, no.. George Bush already did that."

This is a sort of non specific post that I've been half meaning to write for over a year, not directed at any one person, though a lot of it is taken from people I know, have lived with in the past, worked with in restaurants, and of course myself...

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what items of daily carry does an Urban Ranger require?

Why are napkins of utmost importance?

What about baggage?

pocket knives?

Kleen Kanteen or Nalgene?

Notebooks?

Watch? Screwdriver? Leatherman? pocket degausser?

discuss.