#safety third!

[thatsbelievable]

[missewoodhouse]

I’ve got to say, the whole “let’s just send the new guy to appease the strange whims of the wealthy Hungarian count in the mountains” thing we’ve got going on in Dracula here gives off really similar energy to the “oh, we just pay the murderer in the theatre’s basement a monthly retainer not to murder us” thing in Phantom of the Opera.

Is this solution OSHA approved? No. But will it get the problem off my desk in the short term? Probably.

And Jonathan ‘there-are-lots-of-red-flags-here-but-I-guess-that’s-all-just-part-of-being-a-newly-minted-solicitor’ ‘I-enthusiastically-scoped-out-a-definitely-haunted-mansion-for-the-real-estate-client’ Harker would absolutely cut a check to the Phantom if his boss told him that’s the way that things are done.

[nny11writes]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Catra: Hey, can you send me $300? It's for an escape room.

Glimmer: What escape room costs $300??????

Catra: Jail.

[furbyfubar]

Throwback to a bunch of years ago, before my twink dead set in, when I was out in the woods and I threw a fireball.

No, really.

What's going on in the photo is the underrated "sport" of "hot potato" being played by a bunch "contemporary circus artists and fire performers". (That's typically pronounced as "dirty hippies"). It was at a week long camp our organization held. I used to be heavy into juggling and can juggle torches, so I fit in. The ball was made out of Kevlar wick and was fueled by lamp oil. Lamp oil doesn't burn at a very high temperature and won't burn at all while in liquid form as it needs a wick to get enough oxygen. This meant that hitting the lit ball pushed oil through the ball's outer wick, making it into tiny oil droplets in the air. In that form lamp oil burns very well, so hitting it like a volleyball produced an impressive fireball but didn't get hot enough to burn your skin. Though it only worked as long as you didn't hold the ball. Or were too fond of your eyebrows. While the cropping of the photo makes it look like I'm having my mutant awakening alone in the woods, there were a dozen other people running around me trying to keep the ball in play. Also not visible in the photo are the collection of fire extinguisher and fire blankets, as well as the poor people who signed up to be on fire guard duty for the shift the hot potato was brought out. Also, the properties of the ball had been tested out earlier that day in more controlled conditions. We were being dumb, not stupid.

While several people did leave the camp with first degree burns that year, all of those burns were caused by the sun.

[tetradamallian]

Storming Area 51: Safety Tips  |  Door Monster

[myjarofmarbles]

oh man, building shit is totally a new skill for me. yikes.

We're building a facsimile of a boy scout chuckbox to keep all our kitchen gear in for Burning Man. It's coming along, and will be perfectly usable, but I can already tell that round 2 of making-shit-out-of-wood is going to be so much easier than round 1 has been. There have definitely been some missteps and some errors made, and there will be some fancy footwork in making it all fit together - but hey, that's part of the learning process.

also, I need a power saw. hand sawing sucks. I'm getting super buff, but only on my left side. :p

I did get a really cute sander though. Its name is Mouse. Hi, Mouse! Mouse is super awesome, and very helpful so far. I only intended to use Mouse pre-painting, but Mouse is so much better than a sanding block. SO MUCH BETTER.

Oh, and I added a new goal category this month (Goals: project). It's basically a catch-all for any miscellaneous projects I'm working on. Right now it's mostly Burning Man.