don't tell me. I assembled a shoe rack yesterday LOL.
Just like the rats, I do not understand what people like about 'modern art'. I prefer the old paintings, even before perspective was a given. From the 1300s and 1400s, when people used a 2 hair brush to paint a flower so you can look at it with a magnifying glass and see exactly what it is. And the buildings that have been standing for 1000 and more years, whereas a modern school has to be torn down after 50 years because it is on the brink of collapsing!
Once upon a time, before 1913 and fractional reserve central banking, houses were hand-made and stately, their designs were grand and elegant works of art. Today, domiciles are no more than composite sheeting held together with glue and staples.
Really!? I would have about a million questions for you if I could see it IRL. I spent most my life as a building contractor and at first scoffed at the idea figuring pests would be a constant nuisance, but enough time has passed and people are still using it. Where is your locale?
Well, I'm in the Utah desert, the ideal environment for this kind of thing, though people have successfully built them in more humid locations.
Tightly baled straw is almost impervious to things like fire—I tried it once—and not a very good habitat for pests, insect or rodent, especially since part of the building technique involves at least an inch of plaster on both sides. In the big California fires a few years ago, straw bale houses remained mostly unscathed.
Unlike hay, which is a food for many species, straw is just stems, with no nutritional value. My walls are 20 inches thick and provide excellent insulation and soundproofing. This building technique is at least 150 years old, with the earliest known examples in 19th century Nebraska.
An Internet search will provide tons of information if you're still curious; it's a pretty popular building technique, especially around here and in Arizona, where building codes have been adapted to allow it.
No, that's a rendition of the masterpiece prank some genius pulled off at an Ikea. IYKYK
don't tell me. I assembled a shoe rack yesterday LOL.
Just like the rats, I do not understand what people like about 'modern art'. I prefer the old paintings, even before perspective was a given. From the 1300s and 1400s, when people used a 2 hair brush to paint a flower so you can look at it with a magnifying glass and see exactly what it is. And the buildings that have been standing for 1000 and more years, whereas a modern school has to be torn down after 50 years because it is on the brink of collapsing!
Once upon a time, before 1913 and fractional reserve central banking, houses were hand-made and stately, their designs were grand and elegant works of art. Today, domiciles are no more than composite sheeting held together with glue and staples.
And don’t get me started on cars!
Ha. Not my domicile, which I built myself out of bales of straw. Very solid.
No wolf jokes, please, I've heard them all ;)
Really!? I would have about a million questions for you if I could see it IRL. I spent most my life as a building contractor and at first scoffed at the idea figuring pests would be a constant nuisance, but enough time has passed and people are still using it. Where is your locale?
Well, I'm in the Utah desert, the ideal environment for this kind of thing, though people have successfully built them in more humid locations.
Tightly baled straw is almost impervious to things like fire—I tried it once—and not a very good habitat for pests, insect or rodent, especially since part of the building technique involves at least an inch of plaster on both sides. In the big California fires a few years ago, straw bale houses remained mostly unscathed.
Unlike hay, which is a food for many species, straw is just stems, with no nutritional value. My walls are 20 inches thick and provide excellent insulation and soundproofing. This building technique is at least 150 years old, with the earliest known examples in 19th century Nebraska.
An Internet search will provide tons of information if you're still curious; it's a pretty popular building technique, especially around here and in Arizona, where building codes have been adapted to allow it.
I do like my art to mean something. I'm going with "Evacuation Plan."
An evacuation plan, not a map to the maze? We know how much rats like mazes.
Ha! 😂 Good one!
How well do the Freemason Rosicurian pay you?
I’m not sure… no way to check how many of my subscribers are Rosicrucians. :)
Would somewhere between "all" and "all except the Masons" be a fair guess?