Comment I'd like to see the itemized medical bill (Score 5, Funny) 246
The $.05 sandwich bag was probably billed at $50+
Comment Going white? (Score 1) 482
Remember to skip the water-wasting lawn. White pebbles are the way to go if you want to save the Earth.
The irony. Caring for vegitation is a waste, and not 'green?'
Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home 482
An anonymous reader writes "Scott Adams built himself a new house with the goal of making it as 'green' as possible, and detailed his experience for those interested in following in his missteps. Quoting: '... So the architect — and later your building engineer, too — each asks you to sign a document saying you won't sue them when beavers eat a load-bearing wall and your entire family is crushed by forest debris. You make the mistake of mentioning this arrangement to your family, and they leave you. But you are not deterred because you're saving the planet, damn it. You'll get a new family. A greener one. Your next hurdle is the local planning commission. They like to approve things that are similar to things they've approved before. To do otherwise is to risk unemployment. And the neighbors don't want to live next to a house that looks like a compost pile. But let's say, for the sake of this fascinating story, that everyone in the planning commission is heavily medicated with medical marijuana and they approve your project over the objections of all of your neighbors, except for the beavers, who are suspiciously flexible. Now you need a contractor who is willing to risk his career to build this cutting-edge structure. Good luck with that.'"
Comment Don't tell me... (Score 1) 198
There's not a guy in Tiananmen Square standing in front of the line of cars, is there?
Comment Re:reading stuff like this (Score 1) 138
i begin to think less about sending life out there, or about how life got here, and i instead think more about the idea that it simply doesn't matter, that it's been a wide four lane two way street forever, and everywhere, that life is boringly common
i begin to entertain the notion that the reality that is most likely, as we explore more and more outside our planet (and eventually, our solar system), that we're just going to find that the basic chemical machinery of life everywhere, dormant or vaguely active, is on the surface of everything, waiting to seed and grow on anything it touches
I'm pretty sure Louis Pasteur would beg to differ.
Comment This makes no sense. (Score 1) 5
Next step: Builder collects fees for breathing air in house. Mortgage companies collect fee for managing collection of air fee. Builder allowed to sue for uncollected fees in the event of homeowner death and subsequent non-breathing.
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