autonomous dj collective

catamaran cruisers

houseboats like these might be a good way to have a relatively cheap vacation home somewhere (wonder if you could keep one on one of the bigger mountain lakes in CO).

TX container house

simple design

matroshka

this would preserve flexibility.

architectural furniture

to conserve space (and flexibility), need things that do double duty:

layout

on a line makes too much sense, only real question seems to be if bath at end or in middle:

lamb/eggplant/etc.

shallots in pan, then zucchini with lemon; lamb sausage, baby eggplant, red pepper on grill; add all grilled items to pan, then cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, parm, some polenta or bread.

beds

could use something like this at both ends of cabin:

glorified camping

not sure why you'd need much more in baja:

 

signal shed

wonder how much the signal shed costs to build.

a-frames

i may have to reconsider my dislike for a-frames.

 

pro shed

a camping cabin might work in granite, though it might have to be site built.

rolling huts

something like this might work in baja (or granite):

terracross

i want a unicat terracross:

super fall pork

pork chops on grill, a few minutes each side; olive oil, garlic, italian parsley, ground fennel seeds in pan, salt/pepper; put pork on top, a few minutes each side at medium heat; add mushrooms and some more olive oil, a few more minutes; add red wine, cover, low heat, simmer; add slice of polenta under each chop for a few minutes; eat.

repugnant

the repugnant conclusion seems particularly relevant to domesticated animals.

24

very nice 24.

consensus science

chricton nails it:

Let's be clear: The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period. . . .

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way. . . .

tent

might be cool to use f.m. allen tents in granite or baja, rather than building, but probably not worth the potential security issues, let alone hassles of making and breaking camp.

dennett on zombies

[C]onsciousness is not some extra glow or aura or "quale" caused by the activities made possible by the functional organization of the mature cortex; consciousness is those various activities.

those who claim they can imagine a being that has all these competitive activities, all the functional benefits and incidental features of such activities, in the cortex but is not conscious are simply mistaken. They can no more imagine this coherently than they can imagine a being that has all the metabolic, reproductive, and self-regulatory powers of a living thing but is not alive.

trawler

a trawler might be a very cool surf platform/mobile home.