Back from Burningman 2009

I could only be there from Monday to Friday.
So on the journey home I've made my photos available: www.dongrays.com/burningman2009

Enjoy.

(I will be putting them into categories, not just "by date")

"Random album" meme

Follow the instructions...

1 - To get the name of your band, go to Wikipedia and hit “random”
or click en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - To get your album title, go to Quotations Page and select "random quotations"
or click www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your album.

3 - For your album cover photo, go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use a paint package (eg Photoshop) to put it all together.

5 - Post it in your blog along with these instructions and hopefully your friends will all join in.

PS Mine is above.
• The flickr photo was: www.flickr.com/photos/blu...3290554759/
• Wikipedia sent me to the year 136 when in the Roman empire Nurses are accorded the same level of professional courtesy and respect as doctors.
• The full quote is: "We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

My Burningman ticket arrived

It actually arrived on Thursday, but I wasn't in and it required a signature to be delivered.

I like the images relating to the theme (Evolution), including Darwin, but also various creatures such as trilobytes, ancient dinosaur/turtles, but also there is a snake in the foreground - a reference to the garden of Eden, perhaps?

I like the theme (at last, after a few years of difficult themes to work with), but now I have to think about what I can do - that will be theme based. I've seen various previous years art pieces and vehicles that would be perfect for this theme, I hope their artists bring them back!

I hope to meet up (once again) with all my Burningman friends.

My first Christmas card of 2008

Hooray!

I got my first Christmas card, all the way from England!
And I think it looks neat.

Tainted Halloween Candy!

I feel this is a good warning to pass along: www.brasschecktv.com/page/460.html

"In China, ANYTHING made with Chinese-manufactured milk powder before September 14th was PULLED from their store shelves.
In the US, this garbage is still being sold!

Note: Brasscheck TV has found independent verification of all the claims in this video.
Source: www.brasschecktv.com/page/462.html

Foods at risk: ANY food manufactured in China and potentially any food containing milk powder. US food manufacturers imported millions of pounds of milk powder from China before September 14th. The FDA continues to allow to be sold.
This includes chocolate, cookies, cakes, and even things like packaged macaroni and cheese.

Background
Mike Mozart is a product designer who also runs a video blog about new developments in the toy industry.
His reviews are normally light, cheerful affairs and completely apolitical.
If he appears distraught, it's because he is. This is serious.

Mozart has discovered that the US is the ONLY country that still permits potentially melamine-contaminated food on its shelves. Even China has removed these products from its stores.
That's right. This poison that killed and injured thousands of people, mainly children, may be in US food. We're the only country that hasn't pulled it from its shelves."

My photos from Burningman 2008

I took a few!
So at my site dongrays.com/bm08 I put them into various categories (people, vehicles, structures, etc...)

I'm not into dancing, but I do enjoy the costumes people put a LOT of effort into, so it was fun to ask to take photographs (and it made it easier as I was costumed as well), and to point them at my website (by giving them a postcard) to download their photos, print them, show them to their friends/family, whatever... my gift to them.

I did however have someone think I was selling my services! And so I had to make it clear to everyone, my photos are free! A gift.
I then got to thinking about other people who go to Burningman events, take photos (specifically of people) then charge them for that photo - later. Not the Burningman spirit - and I've had this happen to me - to get charged for a photo, of me (taken without asking - but I'm ok about that), at a Burningman event.

Anyway, go to my website, enjoy my photos (from this year and earlier, if you want to go see).
I will also upload my favorites into my tribe photo album - feel free to comment (actually, I'd love you to).

A Burningman ticket for sale: $210

To people in the San Francisco bay area, so I can deliver it by hand, with it being so close to the event.

Cash only.

08/08/08

I hope you were awake at 08:08:08 too!

Apparently the Chinese see the number 8 as being lucky, so today should be triply lucky!

Memory

I recently upgraded Mona's computer which was suffering from a serious lack of memory for everything she used her machine for.
My first attempt at getting memory failed as I didn't realize it was a Dell Dimension 4600, and thought it was a Dell Inspiron 4600 (well... it has 4600i on the front). So the first set of memory I bought I couldn't use, as her machine needed non-ECC memory.

Anyway, the I have memory isn't compatible with her machine, but to send it back (with shipping) would not give me much of a credit with the place I bought it from, and the price of the right memory made it more cost effective to keep the incorrect memory and simply buy from somewhere else, which I did, and once her machine had triple the memory, it runs MUCH faster now.

Anyway...

I now have a couple of unused memory sticks, totaling 512Mb.
They are each labeled "256Mb, DDR, 200, CL2, ECC, REG" (see the photo) and I believe they are 184pin PC1600 SDRAM style (by reading the box, but I'm obviously no expert) but I believe usable in many machines (that use ECC memory), maybe yours?
Still in the packaged box, I am willing to send to anyone who can find a use for them, even if you have a way to trade somewhere else for what YOU need!
It just seems a waste for me to keep them - unused.

So contact me (PM on tribe, first come first served), I'll give you my address, you'll send me a self-addressed, stamped padded envelope that can take a 7"x5"x1" box that weighs: 3+3/8oz (96g).

For full image of what I'll be sending, see: www.dongrays.com/images/view.cgi

I also request any expert on computer memory to please comment, as I'd love to learn what things like "DDR", "200", "CL2", "SDRAM" and "PC1600" means?
I know "ECC" means Error Checking and Correction and enables single-bit memory errors to be fixed.
But I've seen things like CL2.5 or PC2100 - what do they mean, and how are they different to CL2 and PC1600 or PC800?

Memories...

Leave one (or more) memory that you and I had together, from recently or waaaaaaay long ago. Anything you remember! Don't send a message, leave a comment on here.

Next, re-post this in your notes and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty cool (and funny) to see the responses.