“People thought I was mad,” says Jim Butler, a retired English chauffeur, who has lived in his three-bedroom, one-bath cave in the Spanish province of Granada for around 18 months. “But I tell them, try a cave. It’s fantastic.”
Will West, the C.E.O. of Control4 and the father of six children, uses his own home-automation system for everything from monitoring the comings and goings of his 18-year-old son (he can program the security system to e-mail or text him with the time his son enters the house at night) to listening to three kinds of music in his bathroom at once (he has 3 zones of audio in his bathroom and 21 zones in other parts of the house).
Skeptical? Well, these aren’t your dank, caveman-movie grottoes. They’re dry and whitewashed clean, and they have windows and all the modern conveniences: electricity, running water, telephone, cable and parking.
cf
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
andy gilmore’s page reminds me of jahmad’s friend tauba (remember from that one swimming hole trip where I was driving? she kept freaking out that i was going to kill us all?)
the protagonist goes to visit these fortifications in the leadup to ww ii in kingdom of shadows. I haven’t read furst’s other spy novels, but I’d recommend this one.
I had heard about Off the Grid, but somehow didn’t realize it was already produced and available in syndication on the internet. MMM is a huge Survivorman fan, and I had read an interview with the man behind the show, Les Stroud, awhile back talking about plans for a couple of television specials that explained his family’s search quest for feasible off-the-grid living (not “hippy communal back-to-the-landers” as he mentions in the first 2 minutes).
AVC: The whole idea seems the opposite of cynical, though you’re often pegged as cynical.
ZG: I’m not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I’m cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit. I’m more at peace on that farm. I love it. I have no idea what I’m doing at all, but it’s just fun… There’s just something inside me that wants to cultivate land.
For Mr. Vail and his neighbors, “cooking” must often include a working knowledge of gardening, canning, charcuterie (every couple of years, he turns a whole moose into sausage, liver pâté and jerky), brewing and electrical engineering.
I’ve never been skiing, but these maps are so awesome. When we have a bunch of land near a forest for the people haven, we need to commission this guy to do a painting of the trails and various animals and secluded amp mountains.
See at a glance information on your favorite seed suppliers
Add your own seed suppliers, even if it’s your uncle Bob
Add the specific varieties of crops you grow (including vegetables, fruit, flowers, herbs, grains, and cover crops)
Display photos (either from the seed catalog or your very own) of everything you grow
Display detailed descriptions of your varieties, including detailed histories of heirlooms
Share your varieties with others and use varieties they’ve already entered
Record plantings, seed starts, and transplants
Record harvest dates and quantities
Give friends or customers the address to your own FarmNotebook.com page, which is constantly updated with information on what you’re growing and harvesting
Remember in future seasons what and when you planted previously.”
Big Pink better be code word for northern california cause I’m pretty much done with east coast winters. I’m wearing an extra layer of clothing each day this week- currently at 5.
cf
andy gilmore’s page reminds me of jahmad’s friend tauba (remember from that one swimming hole trip where I was driving? she kept freaking out that i was going to kill us all?)
http://www.taubaauerbach.com/works.july27.2008.html
we should implement autolinking for comments, eh?
cf jennifer daniel. (and check that awesome domain name.)
I see your jennifer daniel and raise you a E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone