I think the marketing department for dead-tree magazines needs to go back and think carefully about their sales model.
Category: environment
Brilliant
Spotted this on one of the British shed blogs — I really like the idea of a detached, functional, year-round home office space. In fact, I’ve been wanting to build one in my own back yard for some time, but haven’t settled on size, cost, savings, or style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8M90UaSZ0
Now, though, that my daily commute is up to 40 miles (at 15mpg), it’s starting to make more sense to work from home a bit more often and my existing “office” at the house is everything except office-like. Time to redouble my efforts I think.
Simple, Brilliant
One of my future life dreams involves a houseboat. This is simple, inexpensive — though no numbers are actually shared — and brilliant:
Couple thoughts though:
– time to have the hull cleaned and painted, I think.
– he kinda reminds me of the late David Graf (Tackleberry from Police Academy movies)
Good Idea
Not ideal for your ECB, GHB, or your lightweight BOB, but for general camping, these are a neat idea.
Looks like it’s just inexpensive mini Dixie bath cups, some sawdust (don’t use pressure-treated stuff), and a bit of unscented paraffin to coat the sawdust and bind it all loosely together.
Might need to whip some of those up.
Everything’s Fine
On account of Zombie Snowpocalypse 2011 ™ and the surprising number of employees working from home or just taking the day off because it’s, uh, snowing in Colorado, I’ll be working from work today.
Roads are completely clear and empty.
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Zombie Snowpocalypse 2011 ™: Hey, that’s just how the media has been portraying this, the first storm of the season, so that’s what I’m going to call it. They got everyone worked into a frenzy so they’re now terrified to go outside. There were even runs on grocery stores yesterday while the citizenry panicked and bought up all of the perishable items. Alas, for the well-prepared and aware, even if it turns out to be 16″ of snow for the metro area like some talking head predicted, it’s just business as usual.