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Jay Angler wrote:

Burra Maluca wrote:OK, current ideas involve something like this...

OK, I was thinking along those lines, but with taller legs to be a foot stool or a "sit-upon" when you need to be fairly low to the ground, but don't bend well enough any more to actually sit on the ground. Sigh, I can still kneel if the surface is soft, but sitting cross-legged was never my strong suit. If I need to sit to sort through my lowest sewing drawer, I sit on a footstool that's approximately 6" tall. I was lucky and found an old set of sofa legs to make my foot stool out of.

I like this. Is multi-functional to begin with and could also easily be turned into a stool, foot stool or seat of about any height.

Not nearly as useful. Unless you need a tabletop candle holder...

Best thought so far is to make a sign(s). Routed or carved into. Maybe one is the sign post?

Maybe the dragons need a drawbridge somewhere?

Cool tape measure!

Hi Billi,

Of the options you mention I think that if you can do the research to insure that the food meets all the creatures needs and can pull it off then homemade food is best. Same as us. I also think the best quality backup foods you can afford and variety is good for all of us.

The only difference between then and us in my view is that most of these pet creatures don't live very long and are actual INNOCENT beings on the planet that should be given the best of everything for their short time here.

Good luck and have fun with the new pal! Oh and do they have a name yet?

If it's for flatware I would say it is either missing compartments or it is for after the flatware is rolled together into cloth napkins like many restaurants do.

M Ljin wrote:
That we choose who and what shape our minds, and this is a serious decision.

If I were to choose who my foremost teacher is, the one I listen to above all others, I would call it “mystery”. Or myself. Or both. Trusting yourself leads to creativity, to wisdom, to perception. Whenever I gave my mind to others, I would find that the language-mediated reality they offered was only partial. When I gave my mind to mystery, finally I would learn. Not knowing is knowing truly.

I am not trying to imitate sustainable people, or anyone, just follow what I know in my heart to be true. That has always lead me well, even if it has taken me to places that seem like madness or irrationality.

I flipped open a book yesterday: “This is your mind on plants” by Michael Pollen, the chapter on caffeine. It was just the right section—it was describing how caffeine, in effect, shaped the patterns of thought and perception in society and ushered in the age of rationalism. (I don’t use caffeine and it makes a difference!) If we took that one substance away, would the whole paradigm crumble, would our perception of reality change entirely? And culture works the same way. If you only work within one cultural context there is no room for contradicting it. If you free yourself from cultural context, it opens up into the vastness of the world. And that is where we find what we need to create real change.

Not saying people in college don’t think (not at all!) but that working alone, self in concert with mystery, is a very different and very valid approach, and allows for a lot more creativity and novelty than working within an existing cultural paradigm. (It might be said that that is the work of the shaman, even…)

M Lijn,

So beautifully well said. Thank you.

The more I learn the less I know. If I'm doing it right.

The thing I always thought about college or even trade school is why would I want to go learn how to do things like we have done in the past that got us here. I don't. There are better ways. Look where we are, The results speak for themselves. College serves our masters not us.

The title of this thread is pretty specific. The only reason I come here is because most of the answers that I haven't come up with on my own are already here. Thanks to Paul. Wheaton Labs is a great idea manifesting as we speak. But we need millions of them at this rate.

The last thing I ever want is another "job". It would be nice to be able to make a living though. Like before "jobs" were invented. That's what jobs and whatever masters we serve have taken away from all of us.

John F Dean wrote:I have had it in the house for a while. It lights up, but it doesn’t run.  Yes, I checked the chain break.

Interesting! That would suggest the condensation theory. Maybe more time inside will lead to more functionality. Sounds like a design flaw to me. Maybe worth trying to contact someone at Makita and see what they say.

Eric,

I guess I would ask what do you want there?

Deer tongue grass is at least is native so beneficial to something most likely.

Mow it. Plant something else. leave it alone and see what happens. Those are the acceptable options for me.

Whatever the case things generally don't seem to stay the same. It will do it's job and something better (or worse) will be there eventually if nothing at all is done.

paul wheaton wrote:I hear from many people (and see it all over the internet):  gotta stop AI; gotta stop the bots ...    "DEY TERK ER JERBS!"    ...   it strikes me as twisted to desire jobs so much.

I had huge hopes that we would embrace the scenario I laid out, and then explore permaculture solutions.  

With a humble home and a huge garden ...

  - maybe it doesn't matter if you lose your job

  - maybe you have a MASSIVE advantage

  - maybe all this stuff becomes interesting rather than scary

  - is better than living in the city with a lot of money ...  which will drain away

  - maybe you can share your bounty with friends

Community seems the hardest thing to build and grow. Maybe the best thing that could happen is for jobs to go away and peeps will have no choice and more time for building community.

That would be interesting and exciting.