Why Abraham Lincoln Grew a Beard
Sometimes I think I should have lived in the 19th century…
All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husband’s to vote for you and then you would be President.
Monthly Archive July, 2008
Review of Caribou Iced Coffee
Caribou Iced Coffee has the logo of the Caribou Coffee chain on the bottle, but it appears to be a Coke product. I’d call it a coffee version of a Yoohoo. To my taste, it’s kind of watery for an iced coffee that contains milk. Although I tend to make iced coffee at home with whole milk or half-and-half. Odd aftertaste that is not coffee-like. Perhaps it’s the NATURAL FLAVORS that are listed in the ingredients. Normally, I think of coffee as pretty flavorful already. Perhaps I’m wrong.
Anyway, thumbs down on Caribou Iced :op
Little Houses
Grownups like tiny houses just as much as kids. This example from North Carolina is awesome.
It is solar and insulated and with a flat screen TV, a toilet, and a queen size bed, it has been our home practically every weekend for the past 3 1/2 years while we build a larger house by ourselves. It stays warm with body heat (two adults and a 70lb dog) in winters that can see 40+ inches of snow. It has been absolutely great! It forces you to get out and stay active.
I have dreams of remodeling the windowless outbuilding on our property that was originally built as a storage space. It has electricity, but I’d love to take it off the grid, add windows, insulation, and better A/C for the steamy Austin summers. I’d also like to partition the space into a shop on one side and an office on the other, with some kind of dust barrier in between. An inner sanctum of sorts with all the crap no one else wants in the house.
Maybe not quite the same as these little structures, since I don’t plan to sleep there, but you get the idea.
links for 2008-07-26
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Get materials and cutting free on free part day
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article going through the steps of designing and manufacturing something using Big Blue Saw
links for 2008-07-25
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uses the -p and -i (-pi) command line switches to swallow files and edit the files in-place. rad!
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super cool retro sixties pop colors for a Childrens book. Illustrations by Alain Gree.
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The Giant Golden book of Biology - An introduction to the Science of Life
By Gerald Ames and Rose Wyler.
Illustrated by Charley Harper. c 1961 Golden Press. -
Vintage book illustrations that warn against the troubled times of infancy, childhood, and adolescence (and ultimately, motherhood).
