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about me
i'm bland, smell bad, and like to stay indoors most of the time. i only eat white, bland foods with lots of salt and butter. i enjoy brooding and playing with my sock puppet.
As part of my quest to hand off the burningtruck project to a team of top notch hippies this year, I will host a formal question and answer and learn about what is involved in making it all happen session at the Cambridge Brewing Company this Tuesday evening during the meet and greet. I will be there to discuss this between 8 and 9 pm.
My current plan is to find a group of 4-7 people who will work together to continue this project into the future.
The primary roles that need to filled are:
1. Web site maintenance and community communication (1 person)
This involves updating the web site, sending out spam to mailing lists, and telling people to read the container guide when they ask you dumb questions.
2. Finances (1 person)
This involves accounting, tracking share sales, payments, and harassing non-paying shareholders, check cashing, paypal tracking, and eventually doing a large wire transfer to the logistics company.
3. Logistics coordination (1 person)
This involves being the point person for the logistics company and staying in contact with the logistics people while the load goes out to Gerlach.
4. Loading and unloading management (2-3 people per container)
This involves dealing with the loading and unloading, scheduling, etc.
I would like to have this crew working together within the next month.
So, yeah, show up, ask questions. Take on some responsibility. If you are lucky, people will reward you in some very surprising ways on playa.
word.
See you on Tuesday.
-wagner
Sun, March 9, 2008 - 9:18 PM
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Near-Death Experiences, Phenomenology, and their Neural Correlates
Willoughby Britton, Ph.D.
Thursday, February 7th at 8:15pm
369 Congress Street
7th Floor
Boston, Mass
T accessible, 10 minute walk from South Station
Contact wagner@flammablesolid.org for additional information.
This lecture is intended to give an empirical overview of the most common phenomenological elements of near death experiences and their after-effects, reviewing recent scientific investigations of the phenomenon.
It will also look more broadly at studies which have examined the neurobiological correlates of religious experience generally, ranging across a variety of topics of interest, including altered states of consciousness; the science of sleep; contemplative and meditative states; shamanism; and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
These and related subjects can be discussed at greater length during an informal question and answer period following the main presentation.
Willoughby Britton received a B.A. in Neuroscience from Colgate University, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona, and completed her clinical residency at Brown Medical School. She has studied a wide range of altered states of consciousness including the healing practices of Tibetan shamans in India, Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan; the effects of cocaine, heroine and amphetamine at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH), and the neurophysiological correlates of sleep, meditation and religious experiences.
Her pioneering research on the neural and psychological correlates of near death experiences was published in Psychological Science and featured in the New York Times in 2004. She recently completed a three year clinical trial on the neurophysiological effects of mindfulness meditation, and has lectured internationally on both research topics.
Currently a researcher working at Brown Medical School's Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, she studies sleep, meditation and emotion regulation, and is also a member of the Brown University Contemplative Studies Steering Committee.
Wed, February 6, 2008 - 8:08 AM
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Bicycle!,
Boring Man,
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Boston Burningtruck,
Burn Clean Project,
Demented Steel Workers,
Emacs,
Firefly Festival,
growing architecture,
Perl Programming,
Unix Supremacy,
December 4, 2007
Cris is obviously a highly specialized & classified robotic life form. His mind works like a computer and I never see him sleeping, just re-energizing for the next gig or night out. On a personal note, Cris has been a key player on my lighting team for the past two years at Burning Man. Co-leading an amazing crew of LED fanatics to help make my lighting design for the Man Base Pavilions become a reality. I could not have done it without his dedication to the art.
Thanks and cheers to making super creamy cold ice cream in the desert too!!!
Peace,
Blue
November 29, 2006
He's Wagner! Need I say more?!
July 19, 2006
Once you get through all of the wiring and gadgets and tools surrounding cris.. you find his heart is wired too. Not to some cold mechanical device , but to a divine machine with leaves sharp as any quality knife set, wires of ivy and vines, as durable and long lasting as any gauge, a battery designed to last from solar power, fuel of wine, and compassion that seeks to wed the scientist to the shaman, in some sort of wirey drunken mess.
February 8, 2006
Cris will always be my techno renegade leader. He is an excellent partner in all forms of crime - no one looks better in a ski mask. I have enjoyed exploring 6 of the 7 deadly sins with him, and can recommend him highly for this purpose. Two thumbs way up! Don't miss this one!
January 18, 2005
tout cest vrai!
i like me some well crafted fun...and cris be constuctin some craziness!
more fire,more radical two weelers, more heroic doses, and more compassionatly conservative utilikilts! only the codes know...just green..just gene!
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