Hehe... it will have a sink inside, elevated water tank out back and a grey water filter system. Still deciding how to approach a composting toilet out there. Other planned amenities: wood stove, solar panel with batteries enough to run a couple lights and a laptop, possibly a free standing studio space nearby at some point.
- SAM
Phew, now I could be an AiR. I could refine the art of sleeping in. Or perhaps loafing, that seems to've gone out of favour.
- Lnorigb
from FFHound!
I would live in that year-round. Easily. Heck, I'd spend most of my time hiking around the area anyway. And the rest of the time kicking it on that porch, reading or writing. :D <3
- Hookuh Tinypants
I like them, but I am tired of them dive bombing me on my porch. :|
- Kelli H.
I don't think that's a sphinx moth. It reminds me of zales, though it doesn't have the scalloped margin typical of that group. Maybe a geometrid.
- John (bird whisperer)
Oh. I thought sphinx moth was a whole family of different types of moths. You say this is the guy from Metroid?
- SAM
Many previous studies have shown that queen bee promiscuity creates a genetic diversity amongst the colony, preventing inbreeding and creating healthy, strong groups of bees. Though this is a commonly understood behavior among those who study bees, new research from North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) decided to take their study to the wild rather than observe bees in the lab.
- Halil
from Bookmarklet
extra info: A third of Britain's honeybee colonies perished in the winter following the wettest summer in 100 years last year, according to a new survey. The losses were more than double last year's toll, with 34 per cent of colonies failing to make it through the winter, compared to 16 per cent the previous year, according to the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA). http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...
- Halil
Whew, just made it for today. #1: we went to a park yesterday evening. #2: new carrier arrived today. #3 and 4: post-supper fun, arms in classic poses.
Yeah, and more than that, too, for a brief while this afternoon when I was filing a bunch of things... it's true what they say about toddlers and silence being suspicious.
- Heidi Crossley
So. True. Heidi, are you able to get him on your back unassisted? I love back carries, but I can only do them with a second person or a bed.
- laura x
from BuddyFeed
I am fairly new to back carrying, but it's going well. At first, I used a couch (perching myself in front of him, then sort of scooting together and picking him up to piggyback). Yesterday, I tried holding him on my right hip, then scootching him toward my back, swinging my right arm over his head to his right side, and scootch, scootch, scootch. It's the first method shown in this...
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- Heidi Crossley
That swing picture is fantastic. And I am definitely jealous of your back-carry! I was never brave enough to try that.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Mom says he insists on wearing his hat outside? So cute. <3
- lris
from iPod
It doesn't always last very long, but he does like the concept (and sign and sound) of hat.
- Heidi Crossley
Thanks, all! CAJ, not sure how long until I'll be able to recreate it. Will see tomorrow...
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Stephen, what is more important - going further or faster? For my biking, going further has also made me go faster - not sure if same applies when running. As your body gets used to doing something, it does it more efficiently too, and then burns less calories for the same distance/effort (at least for awhile, eventually you must plateau of course). So if you're running for weight control/maintenance, you'll have to either increase distance or speed to maintain the same calorie burn. YMMV of course. :)
- Ken Gidley
I think it's more important that Stephen set himself a goal and then worked to reach it. Period.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Def. agree with setting/achieving goals == good thing!
- Ken Gidley
what happens if the offender has a fetish for hairy legs ? em thingys are not going to fend of da offender ! Anyway that just looks so gross..
- Peter Dawson
Looks like a more luxurious version of a holiday I took in my youth with four friends; started in Athens too, then via Piraeus to Naxos, Ios, Paros, Syros, and Mykonos. We opted for the sleep out under the stars method because we weren't rich Norwegians. I imagine you'll have a wonderful time.
- Mark H
It was kind of tough to choose islands- Santorini (Thira) was our primary destination, Eivind wanted to see Rhodes, I wanted to see Crete, Eivind discovered something nerdy about Naxos and wanted to visit, and Ios and I have a special history (http://taoofcoffee.com/...). Sinfos was picked because of its natural beauty. As far as fancy digs- two nights will be spent on...
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- Kelli H.
Have been to Corfu, Crete, Rhodes, Santorini, Skiathos and Kefalonia. Not heard of Sinfos! Santorini is fabulous. Sure you will have a great time.
- Son of Groucho
If you visit Naxos, you can consider Amorgos too. And another (less known but just beautiful) island in Northern Greece is Thassos. Enjoy your greek holidays, Kalimera from Greece :)
- Citronella still FFing
An 80-line ruby script run via cron that just reads my feeds from a text file, checks for new articles, and emails them to me. I tag incoming articles with a filer and use the "Multiple inbox" feature of Gmail, navigate with keyboard commands, and at this point the flow is pretty much indistinguishable from how I used to use Reader. Except now everything is in one place. Actually better than Reader in that sense. Moved off Reader the day after the announcement.
- Ken Sheppardson
Interesting and cool idea Ken. Using email as the interface makes a lot of sense.
- Todd Hoff
"The biggest adjustment, says Tervalon, has been giving up her Costco trips. “It’s kind of silly, but I used to really like buying in bulk. I would buy huge amounts of toilet paper and paper towels, and I would only have to worry about buying them a few times a year. Now I don't have quite enough space to do that; I'd rather have my cabinets available for other things.” One of the greatest advantages: “I get to live in downtown San Francisco, which is where I want to be.”"
- Todd Hoff
from Bookmarklet
I am so fascinated by these types of projects yet I don't know if I would actually want to live in a space this small.
- Corinne L
Her name is Maria Magdalena and she's growing coffee! What's not to like?
- Eivind
from Bookmarklet
Fully funded? That was quick! Here's another Honduran coffee farmer raising funds if there are other slow pokes looking to donate. :) http://www.kiva.org/lend...
- Ken Morley
Only 4 people came up to them at CALIcon to say "oh, Sarah's parents! We hear about you on Twitter!" To which my parents were puzzled.
- Sarah G.
from iPhone
They're rock stars! Just look at those sunglasses!
- Julian
It does. Checked my library after reading the article and put it on hold. 79 people before me!
- Shevonne
All fantastic books (I downloaded Shining Girls for my extremely short summer reading list and have already burned most of the way through it...oops).
- Hookuh Tinypants
I think the problem with "this is not my America" is that it can be read as effectively disavowing any responsibility or even any affiliation, which is probably counterproductive to effecting change http://friendfeed.com/aswang...
"Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe belong to a select fraternity: the NSA officials who paved the way. For years, the three whistle-blowers had told anyone who would listen that the NSA collects huge swaths of communications data from U.S. citizens. They had spent decades in the top ranks of the agency, designing and managing the very data-collection systems they say have been turned against Americans. When they became convinced that fundamental constitutional rights were being violated, they complained first to their superiors, then to federal investigators, congressional oversight committees and, finally, to the news media."
- Andrew C (✓)
from Bookmarklet
"[their lawyer] Jesselyn Radack: Not only did they go through multiple and all the proper internal channels and they failed, but more than that, it was turned against them. ... The inspector general was the one who gave their names to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. And they were all targets of a federal criminal investigation, and Tom ended up being prosecuted -- and it was for blowing the whistle."
- Andrew C (✓)
Not even half way through and its laugh out loud funny. I can't listen to this at work or I'd be chuckling all the time with spurts of real life LOL's.
- Me
Finished. Very entertaining. Anyone with a sense of humor would enjoy it.
- Me
I enjoyed it. It was the Moore book I read.
- Friar Will
He's one of my favorite authors. I've been reading his stuff since back in the days when only a handful of people would show up at his signings.
- Alan
That's the only book by Moore I've been able to finish. It was the first one I read and I loved it.
- Running Slow
Christopher Moore is one of my favorite authors. :)
- Kelli H.
Cerambycids are one of my favorite types of beetles. I collected some MONSTER ones in the eastern New Mexico/Texas panhandle area.
- Kelli H.
When I was a child I used to always see green beetles in my garden, shiny metallic very dark green beetles, in my current garden it's a rare thing to see a beetle. Did they vanish?
- Halil