La Jolla, CA - Friday, June 27th 2008, Sundown - Fae Tide

Bongo

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Ever wondered what two thousand glow sticks look like all active at once?

I've been lurking around CPF for over two years. It seems to me that there are two distinct types of 'flashaholics'. The first type likes portable lights that are so bright that if six of them were aimed at a hunk of sulphur, it would achieve fusion and solve all of our energy problems. The second type likes low level aethereal lights. Things like candles, fibre optics, LEDs, electro-luminescent wire, chemical-luminescence , blinkies, throwies, phosphorescence, fireflies, poi-poi, and anything else that looks cool in the dark. (Some of you miscreants go both ways :p ) This event is definitely for the 'aetherholics' out there.


Despite the site's (un)slickness it's really just a few people and whoever happens to be passing by. So if you live anywhere in San Diego County you may want to drop by for an hour or two. There are lots of other things to do in La Jolla, like coffee shops, restaurants (both economical and expensive), bars, and places to smooch. Bring your kids/family in the afternoon for a day at he beach/picnic and catch the first hour of Fae Tide, before going home.

The floodlights on the East side of the park go off at 11:00pm, and would be a perfect place to engage in 'flashlight envy' with normal 'flashaholics', but please no super bright lights on the West side of the park.

-See you there!

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Welcome to CPF, Bongo!

That sounds cool, but I guess my tank searchlight wouldn't be appreciated. :green: I might make it with some UV and colored LED lights and a little tritium. :D

Larry
 
I don't own the park, so you can do what you like. I'm just asking please no bright lights around the maypole and games on the west side. The East side is 3x bigger and you can fire lights out over the ocean to really show off those mega-lumens. Unfortunately there's floodlights until 11:00 pm from the La Jolla Cove suites on that side. Those floods are bright enough to play field games like it was daytime (which is good or bad depending on what you want to do).

There are also a couple of beaches less than a hundred metres from the park that are totally dark, if you don't want to wait until 11:00pm. One can see them here if one switches to satellite view, and zooms in on the westernmost part of the park (down the stairs).

Hope to see you there!

PS. You two guys are in LA (county). I think this thing is great, but I don't know if it's great enough to drive all the way from LA great. La Jolla is almost exactly like Laguna Beach, so you know what to expect. Still I hope to see you!
 
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La Jolla (UCSD which I attended with that Don guy in the early '70s though we hadn't met) is only 78mi south from me in Orange County. :D I am still considering attending! (Free bump.)

Larry
 
My cuz came out of UCSD, resides out there as well. I could always use this event as an excuse to visit.
 
SD guy here. looks interesting, can we bring our own glow sticks?

Yea sure, the more the merrier. I'll be bringing 2200 glow bracelets, 100 bunny ears, 100 Glow Ball connectors, 100 "4- mini clip sticks, and 82 blinkies. All except the blinkies are totally free with only your shame to limit you. ;)

BTW. The blinkies are prizes for people who get an 8" bracelet on the maypole (unlimited tries) or at least tries for 10 minutes, or mentions the secret word, or mentions CPF.

The blinky breakdown is:
10 blue/blue blinkies
17 blue/blue blinky rings
13 rainbow rings
18 red/white/blue 'v-fingers' blinkies
12 12" electronic light sticks
12 keychain white LED flashlights :p

-See you there!
 
I had a beyond crappy day at work, even offered my resignation effective 2-weeks, which wasn't accepted by my director! I have chosen to remain home in CM tonight, without consideration of outside potentially fun stuff!

It would have only have been 160mi RT, but..... I hope some pics happen!

Larry
 
I had a beyond crappy day at work, even offered my resignation effective 2-weeks, which wasn't accepted by my director! I have chosen to remain home in CM tonight, without consideration of outside potentially fun stuff!

It would have only have been 160mi RT, but..... I hope some pics happen!

Larry

You didn't miss much. I did show up at the place and I don't think there was anyone from CPF there. I made it there at about 9:30 p.m. and found the pole everyone was throwing lightstick necklaces on. I asked the people there "is this the CPF group". Their response was asking me if that was like AA. Another guy mentioned that his brother and their AA group were meeting there later. I would have specified that I meant CandlePower Forums, but I didn't want to risk getting laughed at explaining it to them after their last comment. If they were from CPF, I just got punked. I walked around for a while looking for any indications of people carrying cool looking or bright flashlights. I didn't see any signs of CPF members. At 10, the bright lights went out and I started looking for signs of bright spotlights being used in the area and over the ocean. Again, nothing. I left at 11:30p.m. disappointed that I didn't meet anyone here. 60 mile round trip was a waste of gas, especially at $4.50 a gallon. At the next CPF get-together I go to, there better be people using H.I.D. spotlights so I can find them ten miles away. Without bright lights to find you guys, I just look like an idiot asking normal people who just don't get it.
 
Dude. You were talking to me. I had this wierdo cousin I barely know walk by earlier who was part of some youth drug rehab group, and I thought you might be part of that group looking for him. I my sister's husband's friend was there, and was being kind of annoying to all of us around the 'cracking matt', but I ignored it because he was away from the pole people and the kids.

Sorry, you drove all that way for nothing, it was only about 1/2 big as normal and petered out early (I had like 800 glow sticks left). If you had just mentioned CPF I would have loaded you up with lots of free blinky stuff and even some uncracked glow stuff.

-Sorry
 
You didn't miss much. I did show up at the place and I don't think there was anyone from CPF there. I made it there at about 9:30 p.m. and found the pole everyone was throwing lightstick necklaces on. I asked the people there "is this the CPF group". Their response was asking me if that was like AA. Another guy mentioned that his brother and their AA group were meeting there later. I would have specified that I meant CandlePower Forums, but I didn't want to risk getting laughed at explaining it to them after their last comment. If they were from CPF, I just got punked. I walked around for a while looking for any indications of people carrying cool looking or bright flashlights. I didn't see any signs of CPF members. At 10, the bright lights went out and I started looking for signs of bright spotlights being used in the area and over the ocean. Again, nothing. I left at 11:30p.m. disappointed that I didn't meet anyone here. 60 mile round trip was a waste of gas, especially at $4.50 a gallon. At the next CPF get-together I go to, there better be people using H.I.D. spotlights so I can find them ten miles away. Without bright lights to find you guys, I just look like an idiot asking normal people who just don't get it.
That is hilarious:crackup:
 
Dude. You were talking to me. I had this wierdo cousin I barely know walk by earlier who was part of some youth drug rehab group, and I thought you might be part of that group looking for him. I my sister's husband's friend was there, and was being kind of annoying to all of us around the 'cracking matt', but I ignored it because he was away from the pole people and the kids.

Sorry, you drove all that way for nothing, it was only about 1/2 big as normal and petered out early (I had like 800 glow sticks left). If you had just mentioned CPF I would have loaded you up with lots of free blinky stuff and even some uncracked glow stuff.

-Sorry

Sorry it went down that way, and hope to meet some day! Like I said earlier, welcome to CPF!

Larry
 
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