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[redbird]

I hope to do more of a con report later; for now, I want to note that last night I tried two new foods, alpaca jerky (having never had alpaca meat in any form) and hani melon (I think Jon said hani, it might have been hami). The jerky didn't taste significantly different from beef jerky; the melon was okay, not as good as the yellow watermelon I'd been eating earlier in the evening, but Jon said this wasn't a very good example of that kind of melon.

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[beable]

Hi Redbird, apropos not so much of Farthing Party, but of one of the things we were talking about in the park, I accidentally discovered that the "300" club really was 300 (one finds interesting bits of history while straggling through one's mailing list archives looking for birth announcements):

>
>> Pfff... want I find more interesting is no clothing, at -100F.
>>
>> Yup, I'm now a 300 club member! Pfffffft!
>>
>> --
>> * $afriend
>
>OK, I have to ask. You and 300 other people went outdoors, naked, without
>your ECW gear?
>

Yup!

Basically, as soon as the temp. dips below -100F, we all (17 out of 50
station members participated) go in the sauna, butt naked, which is set
to 200F, for 15 minutes, and then run outside. I was one of four people
who made it to the actual South Pole. That's right I've run around the
South Pole naked! :)

300 Club, comes from the fact that the temperature difference is
300F. If I include the actual sauna temperature and the windchill
factor, the difference that day was 346F.

Cool eh!? :)

What I mostly find freaky is the part where they went outside voluntarily in -100F degree whether

[redbird]

Thanks.