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circletimessquare writes "This story should excite the nerd in anyone. Build a luxury treehouse! The New York Times reports on an entire subculture devoted to an idea which sounds funny at first... but really, why not? Much serious discussion in the article about the technical considerations involved in treehouse construction. Also mention of 'treesorts' at the bottom of the article (one being called 'Lothlorien Woods Hide-a-way' lol). I hunted down some links to two of the big players mentioned in the article, TreeHouse Workshop Inc. and the World Treehouse Conference. No mention as to whether or not they support Banyan VINES (sorry, I couldn't resist)."
No mention as to whether or not they support Banyan VINES (sorry, I couldn't resist).
Apology DECLINED.
With the ADA, anyone foolish enough to build a tree house hotel or restaurant will get sued out existence. A proper tree house would have a wheel chair ramp and elevator. You would also need to chop down the adjacent forest to make room for the legally specified number of handy capped parking spots.
I say sue 'em and sue 'em good.
Bah. Even the trees were a bad move; we should never have left the oceans. ;)
Yeah, but still, if it's good enough for Chewbacca, Wicket, Prince Barin, and Cosmo Fishhawk, it's got to be good enough for us, right? ;)
One word: trebuchet.
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
"Darling, this is marvelous! You're so wonderful.......ants, ants, ANTS! Damn you you f8cking geek!"
Table-ized A.I.
I've always thought of tree houses as an insult to injury. First, you're wounding the tree, that's ok. But then you're attaching another dead tree to it. It's almost like beating someone with their own arm. The trees in the forest must riducule thier members with dead trees nailed to them. (its funny...laugh)
Cthulhu Saves.