Yeah, if I had the money, I think I'd use one of the zero/global warming polyurethanes along with grancrete (concrete created with magnesium based cement that has much lower GHC impact than Portland cement). You end up with a superinsulated super air tight house, that will use much less energy to operate but that also has low impact in creation - total plastic only slightly more than the plastic or fiberglass used in insulating a normal house, low impact cement has less impact than even sustainably harvested wood.
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Typo Boy - May 03, 2009 8:13:46 pm PDT #8673 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Cass - May 03, 2009 8:16:17 pm PDT #8674 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Moving is *awesome* because you are moving in the right direction. Um... Mine.
Hil R. - May 03, 2009 8:30:21 pm PDT #8675 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
A green house would be great. I'm in an apartment now, and there's just about nothing that I can do, other than recycling, toward that sort of stuff.
meara - May 03, 2009 9:48:53 pm PDT #8676 of 30000
I just ended up (rather randomly via last minute very nonspecific invite) at this movie at the Seattle Jewish Film Fest, and it was pretty darn good!
"Secrets is the story of a gifted and pious daughter of an Orthodox rabbi and her rebellious quest for individuality. Wary of marriage in an insular community, Naomi convinces her father to send her to an all-female Jewish seminary in Safed, an ancient center of Kabbalistic study, or mystical Judaism. There she befriends another free-spirited student, Michelle, and the two encounter a mysterious, ailing foreigner (the iconic French actress Fanny Ardant) with a disturbing past. Attempting to purge the woman's sins through kabbalistic rituals, Naomi and Michelle embark on a risky journey into forbidden realms."
The girl who played Naomi was *gorgeous* (she looked very Kate Winslet-y), and the girl who played Michelle totally reminded me of...someone...and I can't figure out who.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 03, 2009 10:59:24 pm PDT #8677 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
'Secrets' sounds a little like Naomi Alderman's 'Disobedience' (a fantastic book), at least in terms of themes. meara, do you know if the film's going on general release at any point? It sounds interesting.
Moving is crazy, you know? But kinda fun.
I'd stick with just crazy, myself. Gah - two weeks to go, and I'm spending them here (uni) while the other one packs. What's the new place like, Beverley?
omnis_audis - May 04, 2009 12:18:54 am PDT #8678 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
A green house would be great. I'm in an apartment now, and there's just about nothing that I can do, other than recycling, toward that sort of stuff.That is the frustrating part of watching Planet Green channel. Lots of cool ideas, and I'm looking around my rental going "nope, can't do any of those". Thankfully the place is well insulated (except for the single pane glass sliding glass door). Oh well.
Glamcookie - May 04, 2009 1:38:18 am PDT #8679 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I saw Secrets! We liked it but it had a very frustrating ending. Not exactly sure what the message was.
billytea - May 04, 2009 1:42:03 am PDT #8680 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I saw Secrets! We liked it but it had a very frustrating ending. Not exactly sure what the message was.
Hence the name.
vw bug - May 04, 2009 3:28:41 am PDT #8681 of 30000
Mostly lurking...
What is the logic in this?
Where the poverty numbers are concerned, if poverty rates have increased along WITH the population, then things have really gotten worse, haven't they? After all, 11% of 200 million is a lot less than 15% of 300 Million or whatever it is now (I haven't looked up these numbers, they're just hypothetical). Regardless, whatever they've been doing these last 50 years ain't been working, in my opinion.
I'm starting to think that there is a language issue with my brother. I understand words to be one thing, and he twists them to mean another.
Shir - May 04, 2009 3:34:55 am PDT #8682 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
chocolate pudding
Nom. Also, want.
So, IOmeN. Remember the drama about the paper in that class with the lecturer who started the class with 30 minutes of "that's what you did wrong"?
I got 100.
Now, it's 100 with tons of comments, mostly about the way I write and not elaborate enough (so it seems). And he did wrote me that he wanted to give it under 95 so I'll want to make an effort and aim higher next time. But he loved it, along with another paper of mine I got back from him, and using "excellent", "interesting", "bright" and "extremely bright" on both of them (alongside being frustrated, apparently, with the way I write). This is just... neat. And I don't even think some of my conclusions are that interesting, or even great. They're just... there, you know? Maybe that's the part of me who could never grasp introduction to logic in full.
I know the next 100 from him will be twice as hard to get, because he will expect me to articulate myself a whole lot better. And for someone who perfected her obscurity skills enough so others can leave her on her own to go outside and do whatever she wants to do, that's gonna be a hell of a psychological test. It took my years to build my style of writing and talking in a way it'll be both obscure and understandable enough so others would just leave me be. But I have no doubt this gonna make me write better.
Yeah. Neat.