1,875 sq. ft. house

A house I designed.

Floor Plans, Movies, Etc.

Here's a floor plan I've been trying to make work. I rebuilt it in SketchUp (requires lots of tweaking because inevitably I find I've cheated on distances somehow). I think I need to trim it back. It ended up being a five-bedroom/three-bathroom house and that's more than I'd ever need. Or, I dunno, maybe it's just a level of consumption I'm not comfortable with. I still need to figure out how its roof will work.

New season of Portlandia on Netflix! Watched the first three last night. Also recently watched Over the Garden Wall. Logan showed it to me. It's really good, kind of a cross between The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Spirited Away, if you can imagine.

Some movies I saw recently: The King's Speech (8/10); Mr. Nobody (8/10); The Master (5/10); Tiny: A Story About Living Small (4/10); Burt's Buzz (7/10). Also a couple Werner Herzog things, but they were pretty short. I love listening to him talk. He did a Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross back in 2011 which they recently replayed. That's what got me into his stuff.

Oh, and I'm halfway through the last book in The Giver Quartet. I'm liking it better than the middle two so far.

A Pile of Metal Boxes

Actually put a little effort into my video thumbnail for once.

Thanks, Giorgy! vlog

Jason and Erin make an appearance.

It's so obvious

Spoons, stoves, Alaska

I think I'll do a vlog for After Earth tomorrow. I thought it was okay (if you can get past the bad acting), Logan hated it. He texted me this morning: "That movie was the worst thing since genocide."

Tonight's movie was Alone in the Wilderness. So great. Made me want to learn woodworking. I might look into getting a spoon carving kit. I googled it and apparently that's, like, a pretty big thing. Look at this blog this guy does: Spoon Carving: Adventures In Spoon Carving. This guy sometimes gets commissioned to make special spoons for people! Man, it's weird how you can find so much esoteric info about these semi-obscure hobbies on the web. I bet people are inventing new ones every day. Vintage thumbtack restoration. Hunting marmots to make mandalas from their vertebrae.

Actually, speaking of mandalas, look at this thing:

Anyway, that spoon carving guy spent £250 on a knife! Can you believe it? I gotta watch some New Yankee Workshop. (Awesome, there're torrents for like every season.)

My next house will have a wood-burning stove in it. One that looks cool. Like this, maybe:

Except I bet that thing costs like $10K and that's just too much to pay for a stove. If I were a millionaire, that's the stove I'd have. And I wouldn't put future-y plastic chairs around it like that. Maybe something like this:

Today was Valentine's. Really awesome celebrating it with the berfren. He says so many nice things to me. Pretty boss.