I was on vacation last week, totally "off the grid" at the Burning Man festival.
And of course.... the one time I can't use the internet is the one time that BookMooch decided to act up. Usually (in past years) this has been caused by the launch of some new search engine that maniacally crawls all of BookMooch, thus slowing it down a lot.
I'm back in the real world now, and will shepherd BookMooch back to happiness!
On another topic, at Burning Man I ran an "art piece", which was projecting ambient light sculptures I've made this year, onto a 20ft dome, so that the light appeared in a sea of surrounding darkness. There's a very short youtube video of it below. It's part of a hopefully-to-some-day-finish project I'm calling "Pixcycler.com" which will help you you reuse the under-used screens in your home to display art.
Lucky guy, you got a vaca. Love Burning Man, glad you enjoyed it. Thought I was having a meltdown when it took hours to get around the site. Glad to know it wasn't me or the computer. LOL
Good picture....I sure had a time mooching a book. Thought it was my computer and it took me close to 2 hours to mooch the book I wanted the other day. I had used up my time and it really slows down my computer. But I kept trying and was finally successful.
Glad you had a great vacation and sometimes glitches makes us appreciate this site even more. Tried ebooks but always go back to paper & hardback books. Thanks for BookMooch and all that you do to keep us reading! Good luck on your project, sounds interesting.
What a relief to know that BM's problem was fixable. I was finding it hard to get anything done here, and I rely on BM! Thanks for telling us what happened.
For me there's nothing like a real book made of paper. The experience just isn't the same with digital books and magazines.
I love the fact that even our imperfect and/or old books can be listed here because when I am eager to read a book, I couldn't care less if it has some tears or writing or stains in it, just so long as none of the text is obscured or missing!
So glad to see BM back up! For everyone who assumed there was something wrong with their devices, I recommend this website: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com. if you type in the address of the website that isn't loading, it will let you know if the problem is at your end or theirs.
Lookin' good there, John. I didn't know what 'Burning Man' was, so googled and read up. Wow, quite the event, it seems. (better you than me out there in the dust, lol...and I even live in NV) ps: a daughter went to Woodstock '94.
