paul wheaton

Andrés Bernal wrote:The summit begins today! Do not miss Paul's presentation at 1pm mt time today!!

I'll be there!

We just finished doing a little polish on the slides.  

And my understanding is that we will be giving out a freebie ...

Maybe get a 50 pound sack of organic alfalfa pellets.  

Have you tried urine yet?  Wow, it makes a huge and immediate difference.

Decades ago i would buy "compost" or "topsoil."   In time, I learned way, way, way, too much ...  

The short version:  I would like to dissuade you from buying compost or topsoil.  Ever.  Instead, I would like for you think about what are the end results that you desire, and then think about how you get there without such commercial products.

15 years ago:



And the stuff you get now is worse.



What you want is happy, healthy growies.  There are many paths to happiness.  Select one that doesn't have commercial products.

https://permies.com/wiki/207075/Chandeliers-Wheaton-Labs





This general design is something I like a lot.  I have done a lot of fiddling and have a lot of fiddling yet to do.  

The general idea, to me, is to block the light from shining directly into your eyes, but still illuminate what you want illuminated.  I think another bit of wisdom, is to lower the light so it is closer to what you want illuminated.

I used to put reflectors and diffusers inside ....  mixed results there.  Could use a lot more research.  

I like dabbling with houseplants on the top.  Some day the whole thing could simply look like a giant house plant with light bulbs.

https://www.1000bulbs.com/category/incandescent-light-bulbs

Andrea Medina Steward wrote:How do I get to my purchase? Cannot find the link! :)

Andrea,

All of our stuff says that you never bought it.  So it makes sense that you don't see it.  

Is it possible that you did buy this, but with a different email or a different permies account?

This movie appears to now be free on youtube!

middle bits ... take a look at these

Thekla McDaniels wrote:Here is my sawbuck. It is in my greenhouse because in the greenhouse the Fire Wood is pre warmed ( compared to outdoor temperatures), if it got snowed on or was wet, it can dry.

It is a new use for the greenhouse, which has its long axis east to West. I’m using the north side to store Wood. The greenhouse got torn up by hail last summer. I did not get the roof replaced. I threw a tarp over it and then chicken wire completely covering the tarp. The chicken wire is weighted down. The point of the chicken wire is to keep the tarp from flapping because we get a lot of wind here.  It seems like maybe half inch chicken wire installed with an inch gap over the replacement glazing might protect future greenhouse from future hail storms.

And back to the sawbuck, right now it is collapsible, and I am reluctant to put permanent boards, holding the legs a set distance apart. I am thinking I will just tie string around them.

Two suggestions:

suggestion-1:  move the middle bits closer to one edge.  It helps when cutting smaller chunks.

suggestion-2:  add a rope or wire to the bottom so that the sawbuck footprint is limited.  This keeps the sawbuck from getting lower and lower to the ground.

Jay Angler wrote:How can one be nice to others if they feel their way is the only way? We are all different, and we need to accept other people's feelings and beliefs by expressing our own nicely.

:)

Your statement implies that there is only one way :)

Take your statement, and all the feels behind it ....    I want to say that the space you are thinking about right now is actually about 10,000 times bigger and more complex.  

How can one be nice to others ...

Just breaking this down ...

First, "be nice" probably has thousands of definitions depending on who are talking to.  And then for a lot of those people "be nice" is interpreted as being obedient to a degree of clairvoyance.

In fact, your statement has a bit of "obey" sauce woven into it.  

If you turn to a dozen people and say "be nice", what you are really saying is "be obedient to my idea of nice" which most of those people are now seething at the subtext.  Now they need to be not nice just to prove that they are in control of their own lives and, further, that their idea of "nice" is superior to yours.

:)


When people sign up, they agree to "be nice."  And by agreeing, they know that this will be according to the values and standards of some crazy dumbfuck (me).  Most people cross their fingers as they agree.  They think they will be nice by their own standards, or that they fully intend to live large in violation of the standards that they don't know the details of.  But they all know that if they cross the crazy dumbfuck, they could lose access to this site.  

So I make a feeble attempt to share what I think "be nice" means.  And then a deeper comedy begins.  :)