where's my fscking hovercar

[cranius]

its almost 2005.

i almost got killed driving on frozen slushy roads today for teh nth fvcking time. :evil:

where the fuck is my hovercar?! :x

[kidcanuck]

Invest in some winter tires you cheap ba$tard.

[roguestar]

Invest in some winter tires you cheap ba$tard.

or move to beautiful sunny california 8)

[kidcanuck]

It was minus 40 c here yesterday.

Fvcking COLD.

[roguestar]

it was 62F here last night :mrgreen:

[kidcanuck]

Do you have an extra bedroom..?

[cranius]

I am also fucking angry with the damn hippies for taking away my nuclear home heater! :evil:

anybody remember those? in the 60s-70s-even 80s, kids books about the atom and physics and nuclear technology always talked about a tiny pile of uranium or plutonium in your cellar making all your home's energy for you!

:roll: :oops: :x :shock: :( :cry:

damn hippies! :evil:

[Lady Rhian]

Hey, the other night, we were minus 12 degrees. Talk about freezing your ass off- I so want to move to a warmer climate. Unfortunately, my family loves winter, so I am outnumbered. :x

[Funky Monkey]

Hey, the other night, we were minus 12 degrees. Talk about freezing your ass off- I so want to move to a warmer climate. Unfortunately, my family loves winter, so I am outnumbered. :x

we are getting our asses snowed off as i write this :shock:

[Lady Rhian]

we are getting our asses snowed off as i write this :shock:


ACK! Not the dirty four letter word...........

*runs to Cancun*

[kidcanuck]

We had at least two feet of snow in the last 3 weeks. Thanks to the blowing snow I just finished shovelling 3 feet of snow off my deck and another perfect storm is allegedly on the way. It's all Bush's fault.

Oddly, I filled my car up with gas late last week @ 68 cents a litre. Gas has been in the high 80 cent range up here. Gas prices were 66 cents a litre in 1997 and oil was 20 $ a barrel. The gas prices are as weird as the weather.

[exitwound]

We had at least two feet of snow in the last 3 weeks. Thanks to the blowing snow I just finished shovelling 3 feet of snow off my deck and another perfect storm is allegedly on the way. It's all Bush's fault.

Oddly, I filled my car up with gas late last week @ 68 cents a litre. Gas has been in the high 80 cent range up here. Gas prices were 66 cents a litre in 1997 and oil was 20 $ a barrel. The gas prices are as weird as the weather.

This is why I intend to live in a totally self-sufficient home by 2007 or 2008 at the latest....

[Lady Rhian]

This is why I intend to live in a totally self-sufficient home by 2007 or 2008 at the latest....

Will it clean and tidy itself up at the end of the day? If so, build me one.

[exitwound]

Will it clean and tidy itself up at the end of the day? If so, build me one.

Well, I'll see about having a few basic bots for routine stuff, but I'm fairly good at keeping homes clean when I have enough room for organization and storage (of which my current apartment has neither).

But if I manage to get any decent cleaning bots going I'll be sure so share the details with TBH 8)

[GBA]

But if I manage to get any decent cleaning bots going I'll be sure so share the details with TBH 8)

We use Mexicans here.

J/K ! J/K !!!
:D

Ever check out those roomba's ??
They look pretty cool, but for $250.00, I think I'll stick with the good old Hoover.

[Lady Rhian]

Whatever will clean and tidy the house, I shall take. I am not picky.

[exitwound]

Whatever will clean and tidy the house, I shall take. I am not picky.

I guess I never considered cleaning/tidying as a major objective of my self-sustaining living brainstorms....I'll be giving it more thought now, although I still think it's something that in my own home will mostly be done my human hands (hopefully my kids' in a few years' time, but between now and oh say 2010, that's a moot point).

The main things I've been thinking about are inexpensive means to construct several scattered smaller structures equipped for whatever their purpose is (recording studio shed, massage office shed, lookout towers/treehouses, then the guest house, main house, etc) which all have their own on-site power/bandwidth/equipment sources, are secure, and take advantage of fancy tricks to be very energy efficient while also being cheap wherever possible.

Some buildings will be wired into the "guest house," which will probably be the small but respectable contractor-built/mostly-standard home that we'll build when we initially buy and clear the property (which we're still a year or two away from even searching for).

Others will be totally dependent on whatever off-the-grid systems are installed on their "local loop" which may be one or in some cases 2-3 small structures with miniature wind turbines, small-scale stream/brook water turbines, human "pedal"/excercise-machine power, the occasional high-efficiency next-generation solar panel (up here, mostly only for summer-seasonal structures), the odd solar heater, and for winter-seasonal or year-round structures, a range of fuel-heated/fuel-energy sources including split hardwood, wood pellets, gasoline, diesel, general biomass/biodiesel, plant ethanol, etc....

Basically I'd like the main living site be capable of comfortably hosting as large as family as I could hope to have in my lifetime, plus some guests at a distance of several acres from the family compound for privacy and security. Also have room for semi-public access to business traffic for my business, those of my fiancee, and family/guests who are authorized to do business out of the place....

....in short, a sort of personal village compressed into 20-80 acres...

[Ono]

Whoa! That's some big planning!

[kidcanuck]

EW, start saving your Turkey dropping.

http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/17287.php

[exitwound]

EW, start saving your Turkey dropping.

http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/17287.php

heh....i don't like keeping avians, even flightless ones, nearby. they carry all sorts of nasty viruses and by nature of their digestive systems are very unsanitary....

we will probably do some forms of farming. non-kill wherever possible, since we're vegetarians, but I might also grow some food animals for my cats, for example. I may also help along some native animal populations whose populations are depleted by my cats or other pets....or by any varmint hunting I need to do on the property itself....

...y'know, being a bleeding heart liberal is hard work 8) :wink:

[exitwound]

Whoa! That's some big planning!

It sure is.

[Master Chief]

Sounds like a LOT of fun!!!

[roguestar]

Sounds like a LOT of fun!!!

if by fun you mean work :?

[exitwound]

Sounds like a LOT of fun!!!

if by fun you mean work :?

when there's no difference between the two, you know you're doing it right 8)

[kidcanuck]

We had at least two feet of snow in the last 3 weeks. Thanks to the blowing snow I just finished shovelling 3 feet of snow off my deck and another perfect storm is allegedly on the way. It's all Bush's fault.

Oddly, I filled my car up with gas late last week @ 68 cents a litre. Gas has been in the high 80 cent range up here. Gas prices were 66 cents a litre in 1997 and oil was 20 $ a barrel. The gas prices are as weird as the weather.

This is why I intend to live in a totally self-sufficient home by 2007 or 2008 at the latest....

EW, here's some info on a self sufficient home in Ontario.

http://everdale.org/


Here's some more stuff.

http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2004/10/15740.php

http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15602.php

http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/8501_comment.php#14869

http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2004/02/11949.php

[Funky Monkey]

wow....awesome!