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Crosspost from the painting thread, that's why you don't paint your white vinyl siding dark colors
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`Nemesis posted:
My brain didn't put it together correctly, but I saw the comment with this image and thought "yeah, that does look like a house Gary Larson would draw."
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Mar 23, 2023 19:46
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The bottom part is for truckin' and the top part is 4 fuckin' e; heres your sign !
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I was cleaning up my Flickr account and was reminded of this house I rode my motorcycle past 13 years ago. Don't remember exactly where it was, like 30 miles south of Peoria, IL.
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Uthor posted:I was cleaning up my Flickr account and was reminded of this house I rode my motorcycle past 13 years ago. NSFW tag please!
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Uthor posted:I was cleaning up my Flickr account and was reminded of this house I rode my motorcycle past 13 years ago. It's a Monolithic Dome Home - https://www.monolithic.org/search?q=peoria "Solar Equipped in Illinois — Kati and Robin Millers’ Monolithic Dome home has 6 solar-thermal collectors that collect the sun’s heat and convert it into thermal energy. It heats water that circulates through the radiant heating system to heat the home. “All great projects start with a spouse!” That was Robin Miller’s reply when asked how and why he got interested in a Monolithic Dome home. He went on to explain that Kati, his wife, had lived in several coastal states but never in the middle of the country until they married and moved to Illinois. When Kati realized that tornadoes occur in Illinois, she insisted on building a disaster-resistant home. So the Millers began researching and found Monolithic Domes."
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MarxCarl posted:It's a Monolithic Dome Home - https://www.monolithic.org/search?q=peoria Holy poo poo, much thanks!
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They have to be a bitch to live in, but I gotta love domes.
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MarxCarl posted:It's a Monolithic Dome Home - https://www.monolithic.org/search?q=peoria The Article posted:“I had to assure my neighbors that it was not a mosque or a nuclear reactor. Then things calmed down. But we still get gawkers all the time, and if they’re interested and we can, we give them a tour,” he concluded. Rural Midwesterners: "That's a weird building. It must be either a mosque or a nuclear reactor, and either way I'm scared of it."
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We just got out hot water heater replaced two days ago. After it was replaced, the hot water wasn't working. Turns out we needed to replace a breaker, which involved undoing two screws, pulling out the breakers, putting new ones in and screwing the panel back on. 5 minutes, and it cost $378.16. I know it's a shock hazard and you should get professionals to do electric stuff but god drat if I am not considering doing it myself for that kind of money They also quoted me like $3700 to do a bunch of stuff, but currently I feel like our situation is "it ain't broke so don't fix it" even though the box is old, but still in good condition. This house probably had stuff done in the 70s but the guy who came here specifically said that they future-proofed it at the time and the box is in good shape for its age and we don't use much power as it is... generally like two lights, two PCs, a water heater and a fridge, that's basically it. We don't have an electric car or a flat screen TV on all day. I kinda get the feeling we're being fleeced a bit for work that we don't really need but that's just my feeling. The quote is below. Any thoughts? 
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MarxCarl posted:When Kati realized that tornadoes occur in Illinois, she insisted on building a disaster-resistant home.
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MarxCarl posted:It's a Monolithic Dome Home - https://www.monolithic.org/search?q=peoria Unless it's made of a stone, it's just sparkling concrete.
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Toxic Mental posted:We just got out hot water heater replaced two days ago. After it was replaced, the hot water wasn't working. Turns out we needed to replace a breaker, which involved undoing two screws, pulling out the breakers, putting new ones in and screwing the panel back on. 5 minutes, and it cost $378.16. I know it's a shock hazard and you should get professionals to do electric stuff but god drat if I am not considering doing it myself for that kind of money
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I dunno, someone said I should post it here, maybe it was the wrong place lol. I just saw that there were some electricians who post in this thread.
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You want the wiring thread.
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They just want to live in the abandoned railroad tower in my hometown. 
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Sash! posted:They just want to live in the abandoned railroad tower in my hometown. Oh man whenever I was riding the train as a kid I'd always look dreamily at the railroad towers and imagine what they looked like inside, and how you could fix them up as a cool house, and live right next to the TRAINS in a TOWER. ... I still do that as an adult. 
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Why should I reroute? Plumbers are the ones who suck!
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Its a humidifier.
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Well, it is now.
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Liquid Communism posted:They have to be a bitch to live in, but I gotta love domes. I think there was an idea for one of those 50s "home of tomorrow" concepts that if you had a home without corners, you'd never need to vacuum because there would be nowhere for dirt to collect. That probably doesn't work, but only a select few know for sure.
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Liquid Communism posted:They have to be a bitch to live in, but I gotta love domes. They have their place, but they take away a lot of the feeling.
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Cat Hatter posted:I think there was an idea for one of those 50s "home of tomorrow" concepts that if you had a home without corners, you'd never need to vacuum because there would be nowhere for dirt to collect. That probably doesn't work, but only a select few know for sure. there are still flat surfaces, no? unless they've come up with a way to eliminate that as well: spherical home!
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Gravity would still have stuff collecting at the bottom. Antigravity sphere home it is.
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Yeah, even as a kid I thought that designer was an idiot.
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Haifisch posted:Gravity would still have stuff collecting at the bottom. Make the bottom of the sphere the door, now all the dirt falls out when u leave the house.
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In my neighborhood, there's one the few Alcoa Care Free homes. I guess the path to carefree living was being OK with most of the house feeling like an airliner galley and not being able to replace the toilet ever.
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https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1638895184883912704?s=20 It's literally impossible to know how these tiles will line up.
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A Penrose set with a single shape? That's cute, I wouldn't have guessed that that was possible.
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I need to cut out a ton of those on a cricut just to give to people to pay with, anyone have a link to a vector file of the exact measurements of it? I don't trust a news article to have useful info
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Preprint here - I don't think they give a simple vector or angles-and-lengths, but it looks like it's fairly simple to construct anyway.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1638895184883912704?s=20 That's pretty cool. 
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1638895184883912704?s=20
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Flipperwaldt posted:Some of these are mirror images of others, so this assumes tiles have the same finish on both top and bottom. I'm not going to keep staring at that image, but aren't only the dark blue ones the other way? Although having to buy tiles with the correct chirality would be an experience.
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