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[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

OMG! Sounds like you have my dream life - if only I weren't so info/media addicted and liked the outdoors more.

:-)

In 2005-2006 only one seed of a bunch grew in my Oakland window. Planted for fun on a whim. I had sworn off pot as it just wasn't my buzz (nor was booze, but ketamine was!) but I was rebellious and liked plants. In the end that partly sunburnt tree went into a bunch of butter. I later learned that crockpot was rice cooker - and that's why it kept turning off. After a couple extremely stinky days I just gave it all to my neighbour. She said it kicked ass, and I would have tried it only because I bothered with it all, but I never got around to it.

i used coconut oil, it won't go off.

I have a bunch of seeds now my neighbour gave me. But I need some gear to grow indoors. Or maybe I'll sprout and plant them outside soon. It will all just go to my neighbours. If I were to partake in pot again I'd want to actually learn what the different types do and narrow in on a preference. In the old days you just took whatever was available, good, bad, and ditchweed.

the best method for indoors for me was to stick a lot of seeds in manageable sized trays (6-8 inch soil depth) with perforated bottoms, and then to set those in larger, shallow containers with aerated water (just 1-2 inch deep). used two or three cheap aquarium pumps, so the roots wont rot. because they are planted so thickly, the roots don't have much space to develop, that will keep the plants small. bonsai weed, but the yield/sqft was better than any other tek even with just plain cfl's; (but a lot of them, multiple light points from every direction, so there were no shaded areas).

because it's just cfl i had to keep the light close to the top of the plants, but that allowed me to use the smallest grow tent set on its side (the zipper ran horizontally). a cfl can even touch the leaves without burning them.

so it was soil based, but also aquaponics, sort of. and i did 12/12 from seed, so as soon they had the required hormones they went into flower. very efficient, low maintenance, three months/run method. the soil is good for two or three runs. and it can be perpetual: pull a ready tray out to harvest, stick a new one with seeds in..

Friends in Austin Texas used to plant pot on public property - highway cloverleafs, ditches, etc. They were trying to make weed grow like weeds - everywhere! And to make it more difficult to control something already in excess.

ah, yes, the 'overgrow the government' movement! :-)

Some Toronto Burning Man friends have a friendly competition to make the best whisky. I'm not into that, but theirs was actually so good it might be worth it. I wouldn't mind giving it a try at least once. Maybe with cider. Or with flavours hereto unheard of.

i say it's worth it even if you are not a drinker, they are great as gifts. i made about 50 gallons of hard cider two years ago, couldn't drink it all, and now i have a ton of apple cider vinegar. thinking to stick it in an oak barrel and turn it into balsamic. it should work.

Sounds like you could throw a grand party with all your booze.

no, i am squirreling it away! aging is only making it better and i hope to barter it. some neighbors down the street keep bees, others have goats.

I think you mentioned the slingshots before. In my mind it sounds quaint, but I'm guessing there's more to it. I mean, you could go nuts with the aesthetics alone, assuming the carving was purely decorative.

i keep it simple, letting the wood grain be the main attraction. i carve to round the edges, sand it all down, just enough so it is all smooth and ergonomical, coat with tung oil, done. i would like to make bows eventually. way more involved. it's just hard to find good wood.

This fall I built a lot of neat small and geometric things with bamboo food skewers and wood glue. I learned what I can and can't do and how to do it more quickly. I made a lot of presents for Xmas, then my family bailed - so meh. Now I have an excess of lamps and domes and shit. And I've learned that you simply can't drop them a little. I need much better glue. I even have ideas for grander things like furniture with tensegrity, geodesic, and hyperboloid elements - but without a less brittle glue I can't proceed.

pva is too brittle? maybe glue gun glue sticks or epoxy?

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Coconuts are tastier too. Neat idea.

You know your pot shit. I forgot all that I ever knew in 1994 and I long since gave my grow books away. In 2005 I just didn't care beyond watering the thing. And now there's this thing call the Interwebs.

I just remembered one booze I really like, besides Absynth. Maple whisky from Quebec. One Xmas I bought a case for everyone. Didn't last long.

Apple cider vinegar is good at Burning Man for the feet in the alkali playa and for sunburn, so I've heard. I don't know why apple. Maybe it smells better. If you wear shoes all the time then it's not such a problem, but if you don't, after a week out there you run the risk of getting terribly cracked feet, especially between the toes. I always tried to spend as much time there as possible, even up to a few weeks, helping set up and clean up.

Lots of oak barrels here in Windsor, home of Hiram Walkers. Many are now large flower pots.

Aces for bartering, the foundation of Burning Man culture, and gifting/sharing. Anything beyond "normal" commerce.

My grandparents had goats. I'm not a fan. They're stupid stubborn bitches. Satanists can keep em.

Never heard of tung oil before. My grandfather taught woodworking but didn't teach me much. Yet I am a massive enthusiast with advanced to expert knowledge of totem poles and the Pacific NorthWest art and culture. (example) I also have a collection of DIY lazer cut plywood designs I want to unleash upon the world (too modern for my grandpa), that all started with this project mentioned previously in this thread and even more preveiously. Grain and texture is good. In the case of the floor, rather than hide the cheap OSB floor I embraced it with stain.

Have you seen the YouTuber who's made automatic crossbow and bow attachments? Pretty nifty. He's made many versions and documented his developments. And soon they will be available for the masses.

I don't know enough about glues. And since Xmas was cancelled and I burned out rushing to get it all done, I've burned out on my bamboo motivation. Besides I really need to focus on getting my story presentable enough to finally promote it.

[–]useless_aether 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

but goat milk is so good, probably just like that maple whisky!

rather than hide the cheap OSB floor I embraced it with stain

bold move cotton!

well, don't let me hold you back, go and write that stuff.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It wasn't until I was in my 20s that I actually started to experiment and appreciate "weird" or unfamiliar foods, including goats. The thought of it as a kid (punny) was enough to sour me on trying it.

"Cotton"?

Every day chipping away. I had the story complete locked up in my head for years but only recently I've decrypted a sequential order to explain it all rationally and compellingly. The dam is finally breaking! Now I just wish I was faster and smoother. It will all get ironed out eventually.

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

well i want the milk, not the meat, but goat meat is very common in many parts of the world. a poor mans cow they are called. but yes, the goat kids are very good to eat according to my neighbor. btw children should be called children and not kids, but they do have a period when they behave like kids i guess..

cotton is just a reference to a meme about a sports commentator called cotton. "It's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him."

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I've had a lot of curried goat and it's great. I've never delved into the milk or cheese. I just know it's work and routine that is just not for me.

Oddly it still bugs me when the MSM pushes the idea of goats eating anything, including tin cans. Those fuckers are picky.

They're also clever sometimes. But not enough. You MUST lock down your dry feed bins or they might it eat and die/explode. So I was told.

I cotton on to what you're saying. (I'm not certain that's a real proper usage too or not.)

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Burnin

this just occured to me: i never attended burning man, but it strikes me as the exoteric version of the cremation of care ritual at the bohemian grove

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Here's the beauty of the great Burning Man Cult... It's an un-cult.

You can read into it whatever you want. You can take away from it whatever you want. It means nothing and everything.

Maybe that's what those rich fucks think at the Bohemian Grove - but I doubt it.

I, and many, picture the whole thing as more of a Buddhist sand mandala - a meditation on the ephemeral nature of life. We build things up yet nothing lasts forever. And it happens every year in that week up to Labour Day. We celebrate and we mourn sooooooo very many things, including that the festival can't continue and we must decompress and return to the "real" world where hugs are rare.

I attended 1999-2008. I was always a skeptic and truther, but in 2015 I started to get deep-woke to every conspiracy I could find. Now knowing what I know I would have noticed many things at Burning Man, SF, NYC, and professional animation and live action productions. Actually understanding the "game", maybe I would have been a better employee, or worse.

50k people within a pentagon fence 1 mile on each side! My city of Windsor has 200k covering half this county. For 1 week it's the 3rd largest city in Nevada.

365 x 80 = 29,200 - So most people don't have 30k days in their lives. With 50k people, a number almost to large to really grasp, many "celebrating" excessively, and with lots of climbing etc, it's a wonder that so few die each year. And many people get seriously injured. The desert is a harsh environment. And there are rapes. And the police and many agencies are there to exploit the event for money and other things. And then there's all the Silicon Valley corporate money and their peoples and culture. There are hippies and witches and wickans and such, and then I'm guessing there are Satanists, etc. Also the rules get much worse every year.

Of course there are darker sides to Burning Man, but there are much much much more profound good sides to it. To delve into that would take pages.