Combustible cell phone
According to the news stories, Firefighters arrived at the Travelers Hotel in Vallejo Saturday Jan 13, 2007 just before midnight. The sprinklers had been activated when a phone in the right hand pant pocket of Luis Picaso, 59, caught fire. Picaso was transfered to U.C. Davis Medical Center with burns on over half his body but is in "stable condition". There was $75,000 damage done to the room.
"Authorities declined to name the phone's manufacturer and model."
--Associated Press
This is the kind of shit that bothers me about the media. If you Google "Luis Picaso" and phone, there are 10,300 results (15 pages worth). Not one of them lists the make and model of the phone. Doesn’t Luis have any friends or family that he calls with that phone? Am I to believe that not a single person that knows him knows what type of phone he uses? Couldn’t even one of these reporters have tracked down one of his friends in the hospital and asked them what phone he had used? They could have done any number of things with that information to further the story, not the least of which would have been to contact the company for comment.
If anyone knows this guy and has any idea what sort of phone he was using I'd like to know.
Black Rock City 2007
I did it. I was one of the first 10,000 people to get my Burning Man ticket. Tickets went on sale this morning at 10:00 PST. With any luck I'll be going to Black Rock City in August to watch the man burn.
The theme this year is The Green Man.
A couple years back, at a regional Burning Man festival, a friend of mine showed me his yurt dome. I was so impressed with it that last year I purchased my own. As it turns out, the dome is way overkill for my personal needs, at least it was last year. Hopefully this year I can find some way to personalize it at make it more of a home.
UPDATE: It's a little after noon. I just went back to the site and they've already sold out of the first 10,000 tickets ($195). They're going through the second 10,000 tickets ($225). The page was last edited at 11:28:48 AM. That's probably when they updated it to say they were sold out of the first batch.