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Stepping Off of the Grid?

Posted by Cliff on from the going-nowhere-fast-and-loving-it dept.

torpor asks: "Has anyone on Slashdot ever stepped off of the grid? I don't just mean long yuppy vacations to pacified islands, but seriously gone from 'tech-dedicated' to 'doing my own thing in the middle of nowhere for a while'. It's that time of year again. I've killed my TV, and I'm finding myself looking for adventure and mayhem in distant quarters. Have any of you ever done this, and returned with interesting stories to tell?"

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  1. From the if-you-can-read-this-then-... dept. by BandwidthHog · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess you're only gonna get responses from people who have stepped off the grid and then returned.

    Or perhaps there are some out there who are essentially off-grid but still have access to it via non-traditional means. So where exactly do you draw the line?

    I've wondered once or twice in the dead of night whether it might be good to step off the grid permanently, so that if the pessimistic peak oil predictions come true, I'll have already made the transition and won't be one of the billion newbies trying to figure out how to feed myself. But then the sun rises, the birds chirp, and I drive to work again...

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    Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
  2. i hate to ask by Glog · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But if you stepped off the grid how did you get that article to Slashdot?