NIGHT PICS

I lugged a tripod one night to get these.

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LASER MAN

The giant laser man sculpture was impressive, but hard to photograph in one go. Here you can see one beam tower.

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MR. TESLA'S INVENTION

Two years ago this tesla coil produced 20 ft lightning bolts, but they were still tuning it up when I happened by.

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THE NEIGHBORS

My neighbors elaborate camp, especially significant because I sometimes write code for airplane simulations, and one of our airports is called lala land

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OVER AND OVER

An ejection seat bolted into a frame so that one can roll across the playa like a tumbleweed. (Well, sort of. Tumbleweeds roll with more degrees of freedom...but I digress)

Possibly Amusing Story No. 2: Shorts

I was sitting in a friends camp one day when a man came up wearing only shorts, and told us that he had gone around the fence (in 98 the fence was partial) to get in, and had just been released from prison for assault. (We were all a little more polite after that...) He said: " I don't know whose camp I spent the night in last night,

(looking down)...and these aren't my shorts"

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