{"id":61,"date":"2018-04-14T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T15:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2018-04-24T04:04:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T04:04:04","slug":"acculturation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/acculturation\/","title":{"rendered":"Acculturation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Liminal Labs love virgins.<\/h4>\n<p>No, seriously. In 2012, our camp theme was Liminal Labs\u2019 Virgin Initiation Program (VIP) and every year since we\u2019ve devoted a significant portion of our offerings to schooling up the newbies without dampening their ardor (only their shorts).<\/p>\n<p>No matter what our theme each year, we use our robust <strong>Virgin Profiling Assessment (VPA) algorithms<\/strong> to identify, lure and school first-timers. We query them about how they\u2019re faring and test their understanding of the 10 Principles. For those in need of basic training (or old-timers with short memories), we guide them through moop vigilance, advanced hydration tactics (we\u2019re always happy to fill anyone\u2019s water bottle), map reading, sun and dust strategies, proper gifting protocols, opportunities for volunteering, and other <strong>playa-friendly facts and activities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduates are sent out into the world<\/strong> to school others and to send us any recalcitrants for \u201cspecial training.\u201d We particularly appreciate it when one of our virgins returns to share their wide-eyed tales of \u201cfirst year on the playa\u201d hi-jinx.<\/p>\n<p>This year <em><strong>Robotomat<\/strong><\/em> will provide special <strong>VIP body stamps<\/strong> for every earnest freshman that\u2019s done their homework, guaranteeing them all access to every spectacular burn and as many dance parties as their boots can carry them to.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-345\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-345\" src=\"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/04\/hydrating-Pharmakon-visitors.jpg\" alt=\"Making sure Pharmakon visitors are hydrated, Part 1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Rock newbie gets some help dealing with her first playa hangover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-344\" src=\"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/04\/happily-hydrated-Pharmakon-visitors.jpg\" alt=\"Making sure Pharmakon visitors are hydrated\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helping some newbies stay deliciously hydrated!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-347\" src=\"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/04\/Pharmakon-visitor-tries-on-undies.jpg\" alt=\"Making sure everyone has clean, tasteful (or tasteless) undies\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh no, you forgot panties! No worries, we&#8217;ve got you (almost) covered!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-349 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/04\/anal-bleaching-wipes.jpg\" alt=\"A mocked up label for Clorox &quot;anal bleaching wipes&quot; - making sure virgins know what NOT to do\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1214\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For that not so fresh feeling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-350\" src=\"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/04\/helping-Pharmakon-visitors.jpg\" alt=\"Helping Pharmakon visitors select the right OTC remedy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRC virgins visit Pharmakon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/26tPlB1nDe9QJZeO4\" width=\"480\" height=\"339\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liminal Labs love virgins. No, seriously. In 2012, our camp theme was Liminal Labs\u2019 Virgin Initiation Program (VIP) and every year since we\u2019ve devoted a significant portion of our offerings to schooling up the newbies without dampening their ardor (only their shorts). No matter what our theme each year, we use our robust Virgin Profiling &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/acculturation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Acculturation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liminallabs.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}