Just picked up this story from CNet on the PowerPod, and ecologically friendly tiny house aimed at the high-end minimialist client. With a pricetag of $100,000.00, it’s not economical for many folks, but I must say I like some of the features, in particular the roof line and the passive/active solar options.
Be sure to look at all the photos (inside and out) when you read the story.
I’m going to veer recklessly off course from my typical blog entries today. It’s been a difficult week, so overlook me…
I’ve always been drawn to decorated band rings. I like fanciful engravings on basic bands. (Think Victorian and Edwardian era stuff – laurel leaves, ivy and acorns.)
I like the idea of decorating the plain, of giving the simple more depth. I like functional art. Whatever that makes me, so be it. I like symbolism and the meanings conveyed in natural items and decorative invocation of the symbolic power of those items.
In the same way, I want to live in a simple house and eat from my over-done, fanciful, renaissance-styled sterling flatwear. I know that may sound contradictory, but I think that we should have the beauty we want in the things we need, rather than having art knick-knacks or examples that can only be admired and never touched, held, enjoyed and used. Museums are wonderful places, and I love them, but I wouldn’t want to live in one. I prefer my home and my life to incorporate the beautiful into the everyday. Continue reading
I’ll be glad when I can say (with a great deal of pomp and circumstance), “I don’t DO windows!” For now, I’m struggling with a damaged operating system that is giving me fits. I’ve not been writing in my blog, I’ve not been getting all my work done. Nope, I’ve been trying to limp along Windows on my Tablet PC (my primary machine) until I could either reinstall the entire OS, or until I could get a Linux box up and running. I tried a repair install last week to get me by. It didn’t. Continue reading
My sister told me this weekend that her thesis professor had recently returned from a trip overseas. I can’t recall where he visited. I do remember what she told us about his bot fly “bite” that resulted.
Ok, I’d never heard of a bot fly. I could have gone my whole life without ever hearing about one. They are, probably, the nastiest things I’ve ever seen. Of course, being MY family, we all had to look them up on the web and see what they were. Big mistake… HUGE.
My father got an iPhone from my mother this year for his birthday (Happy B’day, Pops!) I can’t believe my non-geeky mother bought this piece of equipment. What’s even more unbelievable is that she likes it too and (methinks) wants one of her own! This, gentle reader, is the power of the iPhone… to convert to technology the unconvertable (namely, my mother).
So, Pops is spending the wee hours of the morning finding all the cool stuff online and on the phone itself. I’ve found a few cool new things for him that I’ll share with my readers here… Continue reading