I've been to Burning Man in 2003 (part of The Intuition camp), 2004 & 2005 (part of Burnstream Court camp). I'm hooked - I love the people, the attitudes, the atmosphere, the creativity. I feel that I haven't been contributing back to the community on the playa sufficiently and am looking for a way to make a bigger impact.

I have a lot of technical skills (I am a self-employed computer consultant by trade), tend to dream big, but also have enough random sills and resources to pull off a variety of projects. My creativity is usually technical in nature - I'm looking to this project to bridge the technical with the artistic.

I'm an accountant by trade and shocked my co-workers when I told them I was going to Burningman. How could an accountant embrace a non-commercial community where artists rule? Do accountants even appreciate art? While I'm personally not much of an artist (witness my drawings of the art car), I appreciate creativity in others. I also appreciate passion.

I've been indulging Paul and his wild ideas since 1997. When he tells me about his latest ambitious plan I quiz him on how we are going to make it happen - then we make it happen together. While he takes care of the technical side of things, I figure out how to make it presentable or even pretty.

Since an early age, I've always loved designing and building projects. Some might say "ambitious", other might say "obsessive". :-) I've been lucky to make a career out of what I love, now going on 14 years working as an electrical engineer designing instruments for scientists and many commercially successful products.

I've been drawn to Burning Man for some time, and when Robin agreed to go last year, I had to hold back. Still, brought electronics to animate the lights on the camp's sign, and made fading LED color lighting for our bikes, and together we made up several gallons of homemade raspberry sorbet which people loved!

I just love a good project. Anyone can grind up a couple bags of ice and dump a bottle of syrup on it. But 5000 snow cones... now that's a project! I love a challenge, and if this works out well, maybe Robin will let me do "big art" in 2007?