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Nerd Dream Home?
Mark Nielsen writes "Offered for you approval - the
nerd dream home.
It offers privacy, security, a private airstrip, 20,000 square
feet of storage space, and is capable of withstanding a
direct nuclear hit. What more could you ask for?"
I'd say a T1, but I guess if if it does manage to withstand
a nuclear blast, your provider is probably going to be down
for a few days.
Most of it is underground to protect the true
geek from evil things like sunlight, nature,
fresh air, and human interaction.
My vision didn't include a former missile silo, but that's a damn good idea. I've thought about putting my dream home under some arizona or new mexico desert. Hopefully by then I'll have enough to drill down to the water table and not worry much about utilities. Solar/wind power with batteries (fuel cells??) should be enough to keep my electronics happy.
The fiber-optic sunlight transmission is a good idea, too. I was thinking about light wells, but the fiber-optics would probably require less maintenance, and be less expensive to put in.
I think I'd still like to have one room topside, with lots of glass. Imaging lounging around in the sunroom, reading a book, and then going downstairs into the nicely cooled living room to watch TLC. After that, a mosey into the computer den for some slashdot surfing via ... Hrm. How do I get my 'net access? Packet radio? heh.
Can't decide if I'd want the bedroom closest to the entrance or furthest away from it. Depends on my level of paranoia, I guess. :)
*sigh* Dream on...
A host is a host from coast to coast...
Unless it's down, or slow, or fails to POST!
But as a bona-fide framing carpenter (framing carpenters build houses), I really must insist any geek that wants to live in a house like this must build it themselves. And they gotta RTFM, or at least read the blueprints if they are so lame as to need blueprints (real framing carpenters don't need no steenkin blueprints). Otherwise they are just lame posers trying buy some coolness, because of course everyone wants to be as cool as framing carpenters.
For the humor impaired, please refer to the ongoing debian-clueless-newbie flame war.
Ciao
--mtngrown
"Son, don't come back until you know the difference between a casing nail and a green vinyl sinker."
Here i thought i was the only person that dreamed about living in am impenetrable fortress of solitude. I've seriously dreamed about living in something like this since i was about 8. But $2.3 *10^6??!!?? There's got to be more of these old gov't ratholes laying around that nobody has turned into some gentrified apocalypse retreat yet that you could get cheap(er). Anybody out there ever seen a listing of gov't surplus bomb shelter/fortresses out there? I know something like this must exist somewhere, it would involve paperwork so it would make the gov't happy, plus the people that made this silo house had to find out where to buy the land in the first place