The search for the next LooneyBin…
I’m looking for a house. I’ve basically got Saturday to get any coding done, as Sunday is going to be totally spent now looking at houses. I’m looking for the perfect spot to call The LooneyBin v4.0. Ieally it’ll be somewhere near the North-West side of Indy.
Speaking of Indy. I’ve about sucked a coworker into helping out with Haiku! We’ll see if anything materializes here.
One of these days I’m going to get around to starting HUGIN. Or, the Haiku Users Group of INdianapolis. If anyone is interested, let me know. I figure our first few meets could smack of waltercon / begiestert style open forums. One of these days I may visit an Indy JUG meeting and drop a few references to Haiku. :-p Heck, what harm could it do? Heck, if we ever get Java running on Haiku, it might be worth presenting as a tech demo at Indy JUG… Hrmm
Anyhow, I’m out. I’ve got to watch my cousins kids (a.k.a. The Munchkins) tonight. Hopefully Pizza and the movies they rented yesterday will keep them calm.
November 11th, 2005 at 6:47 pm
Hopefully the rented pizza is good quality and still fresh :)
Be careful, though: there’s an extra surcharge for excess wear on the pizza! :P
/me starts singing “Food for Rent” http://www.Bobs.com/Lyrics.cgi?Food_To_Rent
by “The Bobs”
November 14th, 2005 at 10:34 am
But will there be a bomb shelter?
November 15th, 2005 at 10:07 am
I may have to forego my paranoid dreams of an earthquake / blast shelter for now.
Although it’s not too expensive to make the dugout models.
http://www.survivalring.org/ has links to the old FEMA documents from the 60′s that outlines materials and construction techniques / methods for various fallout and blast shelters that you can make on your own property.
November 15th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
Having lived in the neighborhood, I’m quite confident you wouldn’t be able to get the approval to create such a shelter, Bryan. If nothing else, there’s all the utilities to deal with that run underground there. Note that once you’re in the neighborhood, there are no utility poles anywhere! This means that you have telephone, cable, gas, electric, water and sewer lines underground, and you may just have a yard that has all of those running through it, and it wouldn’t be too surprising if they fragment the yard too severely to have a hope of building such a thing, even if the HOA didn’t object.
Maybe you could be sneaky and build a shelter in the middle of the southern portion of Northwestway Park, where the weeds and brush tends to be several feet high, and most people don’t wander through: you could do it at night, and leave the patches of ground covering it like an earth-toupee, and distribute the dirt you dug out evenly amongst the rest of the area. That would reduce your chances of being caught by the police that like to entertain themselves in the parking lot near the waterpark after the park closes (past sunset) :) Just keep in mind that there’s plenty of thorny/prickly plants in the middle of that patch! You’d also be competing against a lot of rabbits as well, I’m sure: when I’d go for runs, sometimes I’d count my RPM (Rabbits Per Mile) as a form of entertainment. Sometimes I found myself wondering if there were only really a few rabbits that just got around much faster than I did, or whether they’re all clones, because they seem to be identical :P
November 15th, 2005 at 5:49 pm
Haven’t you seen the Kids in the Hall movie, Brain Candy?
Do you know why it was weird that Kevin Spacey was mugged walking his dog at 2 am or so in a park?
There are reasons why the police are there.
November 15th, 2005 at 5:53 pm
Bryan, this idea beats the old jobless one of large cardboard box house with garbage dumpster bomb shelter.