http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm That is probably the coolest house I have ever seen... It's like a little hobbit hole, organic but stylish, and I want one for christmas.
Wow! Amazing! "Lift logs, prop up, nail together and continue until no longer wobbly." Fool proof plan, really.
That is a great house. I love the new 'organic' architectural styles that have been growing up in the last 30 or so years. My sister wants to build herself a rammed-earth house as soon as she has enough money, or a straw-bale house (all the jokes about that one have already been made).
It looks absolutely awesome and I almost want one, except that I couldn't find a bathroom in any of the floor plans :?
The point is you build it yourself, so you could make yourself a house full of bathrooms if you wanted to
It a super brilliant house. The guy is being totally ripped off with his web hosting though if he's paying £600 a year for that little site.
nah, the Maljongarn Webhosting Corporation will happily host his site for two thirds his current cost. 150 of it goes to mal to host the site, the other 50 goes to me for administrative fees.
Yeah, sure, as if anyone would be dumb enough to even attempt that for anything less than a million... :cooler:
Hmmmmm Me thinks Ba will want payment in pies and the punishment for non submission of home work is going to involve Weasels and alot of heat instead of detention! Could be fun!
Weee!!! Does that mean that, if this technology can be applied to train-on-a-rail type system, we can finally have a functioning Hovercraft? Granted, it would still be tethered to its rails, but at least one can escape (somewhat) unharmed, if accidentally fallen under the train. Did that make sense?
Magnetic bed, great idea! Just the thing for us old 'uns with metal hip joints, pacemaker and steel plate in the head. At least we wouldn't fall out. Besides, if everyone in a big city fell for the advertiser's "Every home must have one" ploy, wouldn't that much concentrated magnetism play havoc with the earth's natural magnetic field? Could be a bugger for navigation.
They all use GPS these days. Even the guys that go fishing on the little lakes aroung here have GPS. They keep track of the "hot" spots with them.
That house is just weird. I'd be afraid of someone walking on the roof and falling through. Lets not even consider termites. Somehow I still don't reckon it will be healthy. To make a bed like that, in a practical way for mass production (not that there is much that is practical about it), would require a powerful electro-magnet to produce the magnetic field. For two reasons, a) it can be build to exact specifications and b) it can be turned on/off and the field strength can be adjusted (to match a persons weight?). Long term exposure to such a powerfull magnetic field would be not be a good thing.
I have found the emergency exits for my coolest house ever... How anyone can live without these, I don't know. Actually, these should be regular exits, not just for emergencies ! For the story, the building they're attached to is a pretty basic building, next to an amazingly beautiful church with glazed coloured roof tiles... I have no idea what the slides are/were for, they certainly look like they're made for human use... Oh I WISH !! I can has slides ?
The slides were for the ejection of heretics, blasphemers and others who were just not our kind of people. Of course there would be a vat of tar and feathers at the bottom of the slide...
because only heretics, blasphemers and people who aren't our kind of people are allowed. The pious seem to see fun as being had by other people and somehow its always ungodly. So people who are having fun must be punished!
