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I had to make aspirin in the chem lab one day...unfortunately I was actually there as a physicist (long story). My distillation setup looked a bit " Heath-Robinson" as I had basically used every piece of glassware I could lay my hands on. Plus I discovered that day that not all chemicals, and specifically the acid I was working with, do not behave like water and simmer gently at boiling point........for some, the term explosion point would be a better frame of reference.
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I knew a homeless guy that lived in some woods close to a walmart, he wasn't a druggie or anything his family just didn't want anything to do with him. Never asked for money just something to eat or drink from time to time. Then the winter came and they let him freeze to death. >.>
I would start a fight club. But don't tell anybody.
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JohnnyCacheStarting DefensePlace at the tableRegistered Userregular
edited July 2008
Has anyone read the novel An Alien Heat?
It's one of the few really interesting thing Michael Morecock ever did.
It's about a world that has existed as a post scarcity society for generations worth of time and how jaded the people get.
Basically, I see a post scarcity world as like second life: People will have the freedom to do anything they want with their lives, but most of them will use it to either look pretty, act perverse, or display rampant and utter fail at spiritual and artistic pursuits.
Or something close to a bum anyway, depending on your definition. I'm traveling, and have been spending as little money as possible. So, take today for example. I woke up in a city park. I packed my sleeping bag and tarp away as the sun came up, but on the clothes I'd been wearing for days before that. For food I bought a grapefruit for 50 cents (on special). I had some pita bread with honey on it (those little packages of honey that come with breakfast, I swiped a bunch a while ago). And later I had some peanuts and raisins for a snack, both of which I bought in bulk for cheap. I went to a mall to use their bathrooms. I'm at a public library right now to use the net. I've been getting around by hitch-hiking. I've been gone for a month and a half and I'm starting to slip, I ate at a Vietnamese restaurant the other day, and some pork fried rice yesterday. I normally get all my food from grocery stores because its cheaper. I checked into a Hostel today, it will give me a chance to shower, shave, do laundry and have a long comfortable sleep before I get on the road again. Its been an interesting experience so far.
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Or something close to a bum anyway, depending on your definition. I'm traveling, and have been spending as little money as possible. So, take today for example. I woke up in a city park. I packed my sleeping bag and tarp away as the sun came up, but on the clothes I'd been wearing for days before that. For food I bought a grapefruit for 50 cents (on special). I had some pita bread with honey on it (those little packages of honey that come with breakfast, I swiped a bunch a while ago). And later I had some peanuts and raisins for a snack, both of which I bought in bulk for cheap. I went to a mall to use their bathrooms. I'm at a public library right now to use the net. I've been getting around by hitch-hiking. I've been gone for a month and a half and I'm starting to slip, I ate at a Vietnamese restaurant the other day, and some pork fried rice yesterday. I normally get all my food from grocery stores because its cheaper. I checked into a Hostel today, it will give me a chance to shower, shave, do laundry and have a long comfortable sleep before I get on the road again. Its been an interesting experience so far.
Whoah, I don't know if I could live like that. The most I've ever been homeless was for two weeks nearly 10-15 years ago now.
But I guess if you're doing it by choice, then kudos. 8-)
Edit: Also it's good that you're eating sustainably rather than fast food.
Or something close to a bum anyway, depending on your definition. I'm traveling, and have been spending as little money as possible. So, take today for example. I woke up in a city park. I packed my sleeping bag and tarp away as the sun came up, but on the clothes I'd been wearing for days before that. For food I bought a grapefruit for 50 cents (on special). I had some pita bread with honey on it (those little packages of honey that come with breakfast, I swiped a bunch a while ago). And later I had some peanuts and raisins for a snack, both of which I bought in bulk for cheap. I went to a mall to use their bathrooms. I'm at a public library right now to use the net. I've been getting around by hitch-hiking. I've been gone for a month and a half and I'm starting to slip, I ate at a Vietnamese restaurant the other day, and some pork fried rice yesterday. I normally get all my food from grocery stores because its cheaper. I checked into a Hostel today, it will give me a chance to shower, shave, do laundry and have a long comfortable sleep before I get on the road again. Its been an interesting experience so far.
Whoah, I don't know if I could live like that. The most I've ever been homeless was for two weeks nearly 10-15 years ago now.
But I guess if you're doing it by choice, then kudos. 8-)
Edit: Also it's good that you're eating sustainably rather than fast food.
I haven't been doing the bum thing for the whole 1.5 months, I'd been staying with family for a few weeks of that. So I guess I've been effectively homeless for.... 3 weeks? Not really that long, and I'm already getting a pretty solid hankering for home. Ah well.
And yeah it is by choice, I've got a couple grand in the bank, just in case.
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KageraImitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered Userregular
edited July 2008
I think I'm going to create a new diet fad.
The homeless diet: If you want to eat you'll have to dig through trash!
I'd make indie movies, I would never stop traveling. I'd go to non-stop conventions, penny arcade conventions, horror movie conventions, comic book conventions. I'd paint, make models, play warhammer, and learn to play the piano. Oh and spend more time with the girlfriend.
HacksawJ. Duggan Esq.Wrestler at LawRegistered Userregular
edited July 2008
I'd become the Joker, for realz.
After all, being as the planet is going to burn eventually, what's the fun in waiting around for someone else to ignite the fire? I'd much rather spark the inferno myself and watch as the world goes up in flames.
Man, I would love to exist in a world where I had no obligations...sounds sort of like heaven.
I'd read a whole lot of books, play a whole lot of video games, teach myself to play the piano, move to the seashore so I can make my own insanely fresh sushi and yes, have sex with two women at once. They will be drawn to my incredible sushi.
Once I got bored enough I guess I could start adding more partners in the bedroom until it just turns into a global orgy. Can the force created by the whole world fucking simultaneously throw Earth off its orbit?
Honestly, if I could do anything, I'd do about what I do now. Play about with technology. Learn to do neat new stuff with it.
I can't afford the stuff I get to play with at work. If I didn't have to pay for stuff, I'd do the same thing I do now, but at home naked and with slightly diffrent technology.
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I'd design a house, go live in it, and write my books and make art in between gaming binges. Any time a friend wanted to come over and stay, I'd add on to the house with a new room themed after the person and my impression of them.
Eventually it would be a sprawling museum to people I know and library of my works.
Assuming we could still die, I'd be satisfied with my legacy.
I work with a guy who spent only 6 months of any given year employed for a very long time. He lived in a van and really enjoyed it. Sometimes he'd work for 3 months and take off for 9. His budget would be around 3,000$/year. If he wanted to go on a trip or something he'd pick up a little extra work and make the gas money and then go.
He said there are some simple rules:
1.) If it doesn't fit, you can't have it.
2.) If you don't use it three times a week you can't have it.
3.) Seriously, if it doesn't fit you can't have it.
You have to use some tricks apparently. A lot of cops will harass someone that's been just parked for a bit. So you get a clip-board and some cleaning supplies to leave in the front seat with a curtain to divide the driving/passenger seats from your living area. He was just using modified Ford Astro vans, using malformed foam from a mattress factory to insulate with a small single burner electric cooktop bolted to the rear door so that it could feed off a wire run to the rear lights and you could have the door open to cook something if it was going to smoke.
I've seen vans that were modified to live in, friend of mine had one with a dining-area style table that you could lower the legs on and turn into a pretty comfortable bed, with a fridge and a small gas generator with pump and exhaust designed to siphon off the main tank and vent properly.
If you wanted to, you could easily survive and be very happy like that, as long as you were healthy and able-bodied, people do it on boats all of the time. hopping between islands and living off of what they have.
Here's the problem, you don't ever "get ahead" with that lifestyle, you're fine as long as you're healthy and able bodied, but as soon as you get sick or injured, you've got no cushion. It's the sort of thing you should get away with while you're young, and give up when you're in your late 30's.
We were kind of like bums at one point, we had a house but it was below acceptable living conditions, our water was contimanited with some kind of bacteria and fungus ruined a lot of our possetions, hell we didn't have running water in the bathroom without shit spurting out of the faucets.
We were kind of like bums at one point, we had a house but it was below acceptable living conditions, our water was contimanited with some kind of bacteria and fungus ruined a lot of our possetions, hell we didn't have running water in the bathroom without shit spurting out of the faucets.
I'm going to go ahead and say maybe you should have done some DIY on the plumbing at that point.
They've rented the house out again and as far as I know haven't repaired it.
The idea that you could spend your life traveling this Earth and run out of new places to go and new people to meet without the advent of immortality is silly.
I imagine there would be some sort of system of hostel-style communal facilities for people to stay in while they were visiting new places. Perhaps the elderly, infirm or travel-shy would open their homes B&B style so they could vicariously experience the thrill of becoming a world traveler without leaving their homes.
Or perhaps each and every need would be catered to by robots, freeing us from any excuse for human interaction and leaving us a world of fat shut-ins connected to our ever-becoming-more-matrix-like internet.
Or perhaps each and every need would be catered to by robots, freeing us from any excuse for human interaction and leaving us a world of fat shut-ins connected to our ever-becoming-more-matrix-like internet.
Here's the problem, you don't ever "get ahead" with that lifestyle, you're fine as long as you're healthy and able bodied, but as soon as you get sick or injured, you've got no cushion. It's the sort of thing you should get away with while you're young, and give up when you're in your late 30's.
And then realize that you don't have enough money to retire because you haven't started saving and investing in your early 20s.
Here's the problem, you don't ever "get ahead" with that lifestyle, you're fine as long as you're healthy and able bodied, but as soon as you get sick or injured, you've got no cushion. It's the sort of thing you should get away with while you're young, and give up when you're in your late 30's.
And then realize that you don't have enough money to retire because you haven't started saving and investing in your early 20s.
Shhhh.
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What, like "no making aspirin" and stuff?
What if I have a headache one day?
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I had to make aspirin in the chem lab one day...unfortunately I was actually there as a physicist (long story). My distillation setup looked a bit " Heath-Robinson" as I had basically used every piece of glassware I could lay my hands on. Plus I discovered that day that not all chemicals, and specifically the acid I was working with, do not behave like water and simmer gently at boiling point........for some, the term explosion point would be a better frame of reference.
Conquer moon, install myself as Emperor of the Clangers.
But will you have ridden the mighty moon worm?
At times I sort of miss being unemployed.
Hell yeah.
Also, I would buy a lot of LEGO shit.
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It's one of the few really interesting thing Michael Morecock ever did.
It's about a world that has existed as a post scarcity society for generations worth of time and how jaded the people get.
Basically, I see a post scarcity world as like second life: People will have the freedom to do anything they want with their lives, but most of them will use it to either look pretty, act perverse, or display rampant and utter fail at spiritual and artistic pursuits.
I host a podcast about movies.
Can't believe this hasn't been posted. Seems like the character in the OP was inspired by this.
Or something close to a bum anyway, depending on your definition. I'm traveling, and have been spending as little money as possible. So, take today for example. I woke up in a city park. I packed my sleeping bag and tarp away as the sun came up, but on the clothes I'd been wearing for days before that. For food I bought a grapefruit for 50 cents (on special). I had some pita bread with honey on it (those little packages of honey that come with breakfast, I swiped a bunch a while ago). And later I had some peanuts and raisins for a snack, both of which I bought in bulk for cheap. I went to a mall to use their bathrooms. I'm at a public library right now to use the net. I've been getting around by hitch-hiking. I've been gone for a month and a half and I'm starting to slip, I ate at a Vietnamese restaurant the other day, and some pork fried rice yesterday. I normally get all my food from grocery stores because its cheaper. I checked into a Hostel today, it will give me a chance to shower, shave, do laundry and have a long comfortable sleep before I get on the road again. Its been an interesting experience so far.
But I guess if you're doing it by choice, then kudos. 8-)
Edit: Also it's good that you're eating sustainably rather than fast food.
I haven't been doing the bum thing for the whole 1.5 months, I'd been staying with family for a few weeks of that. So I guess I've been effectively homeless for.... 3 weeks? Not really that long, and I'm already getting a pretty solid hankering for home. Ah well.
And yeah it is by choice, I've got a couple grand in the bank, just in case.
The homeless diet: If you want to eat you'll have to dig through trash!
Or chase after a squirrel before you cook it.
Why chase after a squirrel when you can just find a dead one?
Because all that running burns calories.
I'd explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
Two chicks at the same time.
(I can't believe no one had said it yet)
After all, being as the planet is going to burn eventually, what's the fun in waiting around for someone else to ignite the fire? I'd much rather spark the inferno myself and watch as the world goes up in flames.
I'd read a whole lot of books, play a whole lot of video games, teach myself to play the piano, move to the seashore so I can make my own insanely fresh sushi and yes, have sex with two women at once. They will be drawn to my incredible sushi.
Once I got bored enough I guess I could start adding more partners in the bedroom until it just turns into a global orgy. Can the force created by the whole world fucking simultaneously throw Earth off its orbit?
My theory is that it can!
I can't afford the stuff I get to play with at work. If I didn't have to pay for stuff, I'd do the same thing I do now, but at home naked and with slightly diffrent technology.
Eventually it would be a sprawling museum to people I know and library of my works.
Assuming we could still die, I'd be satisfied with my legacy.
He said there are some simple rules:
1.) If it doesn't fit, you can't have it.
2.) If you don't use it three times a week you can't have it.
3.) Seriously, if it doesn't fit you can't have it.
You have to use some tricks apparently. A lot of cops will harass someone that's been just parked for a bit. So you get a clip-board and some cleaning supplies to leave in the front seat with a curtain to divide the driving/passenger seats from your living area. He was just using modified Ford Astro vans, using malformed foam from a mattress factory to insulate with a small single burner electric cooktop bolted to the rear door so that it could feed off a wire run to the rear lights and you could have the door open to cook something if it was going to smoke.
I've seen vans that were modified to live in, friend of mine had one with a dining-area style table that you could lower the legs on and turn into a pretty comfortable bed, with a fridge and a small gas generator with pump and exhaust designed to siphon off the main tank and vent properly.
If you wanted to, you could easily survive and be very happy like that, as long as you were healthy and able-bodied, people do it on boats all of the time. hopping between islands and living off of what they have.
Here's the problem, you don't ever "get ahead" with that lifestyle, you're fine as long as you're healthy and able bodied, but as soon as you get sick or injured, you've got no cushion. It's the sort of thing you should get away with while you're young, and give up when you're in your late 30's.
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They've rented the house out again and as far as I know haven't repaired it.
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I imagine there would be some sort of system of hostel-style communal facilities for people to stay in while they were visiting new places. Perhaps the elderly, infirm or travel-shy would open their homes B&B style so they could vicariously experience the thrill of becoming a world traveler without leaving their homes.
Or perhaps each and every need would be catered to by robots, freeing us from any excuse for human interaction and leaving us a world of fat shut-ins connected to our ever-becoming-more-matrix-like internet.
This is what would happen to me.
And then realize that you don't have enough money to retire because you haven't started saving and investing in your early 20s.
I need hippy landscapers.
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