A tiny home tour: living in 96 square feet
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Here is where you'll find all sorts of randomness that I decide to share online. I have given up on the "fancy" blogging services and started to use Posterous due to it's ease of use.
It's been 2 weeks and I'm just now getting around to posting about it.
I heard Kevin Smith talking about this video on SModcast today. It's funny because we have all sorts of luxuries here in the US, yet I can't just hop on a zip line like this to go places. Instead, I have to get in the boring car.
I found this ad quite funny:
Hundreds of people have checked out my Posterous page and I'll bet that most of them were turned-off by the basic look. Well, on Thursday, Posterous has changed everything. We are now permitted to customize our pages. Even the least web-savvy person can change themes and colors. If you're into Photoshop (or another graphic program) you can finally upload a custom header.
If you're the type that likes following the trends of avatar creation, check out obamicon.me. I made this image from my normal avatar picture and I think that it turned out pretty well. The only downside is that the lettering must be in all caps. I prefer my screen name in all lowercase.
We got the final prepping done on the walls today (which allowed us to start putting up cabinets). We have mounted 2 of the 6 cabinets for this wall.
The "wet wall" (sink & dishwasher) is already designed. This will be the "hot wall" (stove/oven & microwave). I used SketchUp to design this section due to the ceiling beam that cuts down the middle of the room. Once these cabinets are up, I will fabricate a housing around the vacant space created by the beam.
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I've used SketchUp in the past to model everything from a sofa to an entire apartment. I'm just now downloading it to my new computer so that I can finish the design of our kitchen. I took many CAD classes in college and that has helped me with the basic understanding of transferring real objects onto a computer monitor. SketchUp is great because it is free (as opposed to the THOUSANDS of dollars that you'd spend on a copy of AutoCAD or Solidworks).
I saw this picture on a lifehacker post and just had to share it. Both dogs have the same facial expression, except the one on the right is clearly more excited. The one on the left is trotting while the one on the right is running, but they're still next to each other. I like this picture a lot.
