Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Good point. Except he started to lose the ball and then his knee hit and then he secured it right before he was completely stretched out flat on the ground, and that's when the Bears defender ripped it out. If you are on the ground and secure the ball, even if it's for a second with a defender sitting on you, you are down.

TM

Do you have a link to the play? I need to re-review it. That's not how I remember it. Then again, my mind often distorts memorable events in my favor, like that time when I banged Jessica Alba.

[dc_chef]

Originally posted by Adder
Maybe I am just square (well, okay, so not maybe) but this does not sound appealing to me.

It does sound a little odd, but I would love to see the finished product. Eight feet wide seems a little narrow, but maybe if they were siamesed together, they could make a pretty cool den. (OTOH, it could look like your parents slapped a double-wide onto the back of their house.)

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Oh, I can understand the trepedation of holding two mortgages at once. I like, though, that the prefabs (if their literature is to be believed) generally take less time to construct than traditional construction. So theoretically the time waiting for the new house to be build is compressed a bit.

My parents just hired my brother to design a shipping container based set of extra bedrooms for their property, and they're anticipating that it'll cost less than $30K to pull off. What's cool about the shipping containers is that we import a hell of a lot more from China than we export, so there are a shitload of empty shipping containers in this country that could be used for something else. They're unbelievably structurally sound, well insulated, and they're designed to stack 9 high on the ships. Pop out some windows and doors, and you've got an 8 x 20 (or 40) x 8 room without a 2x4 having entered the picture. My friend says that they go (depending on size and quality) from about $2500 to about $7000. Get electrical and plumbing, maybe some sheetrock on the walls, some sort of foundation, and you're good to go.

Serious question -- would an 8-foot ceiling seem low? I don't know how high ceilings generally are.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Adder
I am apparently the only one who thinks that the Saints got screwed on the second "fumble" that they lost (as I have heard no one else complain about it). Sure, the ball "moved" before his knee was down, but since when is that the standard? Dude still had possession of the football when his knee hit the ground, thus not a fumble. That the ref couldn't get it right even after watching the replay is astounding.

Of course, it was completely irrelevant in the end.

I don't really like bitching about the calls, since I learned in that heartwarming story of the hotheaded, soccer-playing refugees that bad calls are just part of the game, but WTF was that "roughing the passer" call against Tully Banta-Cain to move the Colts down to the 12? Without that call, running that ball wasn't an option.

Maybe it was a decent call, but since CBS showed it only once and did not dwell on its significance, I don't know.

Originally posted by Hank
here's the one I thoguht blown. When the Colts center recovered the fumble, the ball was at his hip level and on the 1/2 yard line. it looked to me like he pulled it over the line.

Yes. The refs didn't signal TD at first, but waiting until they ran up on top of him, by which time he'd pulled the ball forward. But the Colts would have scored on the next play, so it didn't matter. That must have been some flu that the Pats had, because they looked spent for most of the game.

[dc_chef]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Serious question -- would an 8-foot ceiling seem low? I don't know how high ceilings generally are.

It would not be too bad. Eight foot was more the standard a few years ago; newer houses often go with nine feet.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

Is that Alba? Not that it makes a difference who the fuck it is...

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Unless you have tried to set your own house on fire, I don't know on what basis you intend to argue with the lady.

I leave my flat iron on all the time. Does that count?

[Adder]

Originally posted by dc_chef
It does sound a little odd, but I would love to see the finished product. Eight feet wide seems a little narrow, but maybe if they were siamesed together, they could make a pretty cool den. (OTOH, it could look like your parents slapped a double-wide onto the back of their house.)

I once saw a show on HGTV or one of those stations that featured a house made out of shipping containers that was somwhere out in the middle of the wilderness. It was nice, and looked pretty cool, but did not look like something I would want to see in the middle of a suburban neighborhood. But mabe it could be done well and look okay.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I realize Rex bashing is all the rage. But he looked pretty good to me yesterday. The scoreboard seemed to think so, too.

And the Bears were never behind. I'm not a Rex-hater, but he does tend to become a mess when playing from behind. His mechanics get messed up and he makes some poor decisions.

[nononono]

I think I've been persuaded into going to a Dark Star Orchestra (www.darkstarorchestra.net) performance. I am told this will win me at least the nomination for the Girlfriend of the Year award, but I don't know if it is enough. A recreated Dead show is likely to last how many hours?

Originally posted by nononono
I think I've been persuaded into going to a Dark Star Orchestra (www.darkstarorchestra.net) performance. I am told this will win me at least the nomination for the Girlfriend of the Year award, but I don't know if it is enough. A recreated Dead show is likely to last how many hours?

Subjectively or objectively? Will you be dosing?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Oh, I can understand the trepedation of holding two mortgages at once. I like, though, that the prefabs (if their literature is to be believed) generally take less time to construct than traditional construction. So theoretically the time waiting for the new house to be build is compressed a bit.

My parents just hired my brother to design a shipping container based set of extra bedrooms for their property, and they're anticipating that it'll cost less than $30K to pull off. What's cool about the shipping containers is that we import a hell of a lot more from China than we export, so there are a shitload of empty shipping containers in this country that could be used for something else. They're unbelievably structurally sound, well insulated, and they're designed to stack 9 high on the ships. Pop out some windows and doors, and you've got an 8 x 20 (or 40) x 8 room without a 2x4 having entered the picture. My friend says that they go (depending on size and quality) from about $2500 to about $7000. Get electrical and plumbing, maybe some sheetrock on the walls, some sort of foundation, and you're good to go.

I don't understand this. For $30K, you should be able to get an extra long mobile home that dwarfs this, and for $50K, you can get a 49 foot doublewide that would be about nine times the space.

And, I think they're much less likely to search a mobile home going across the border driven by an aristocrat than they are a shipping container, no matter who is taking the shipping container over. Remember, if they find the toys in the bedside table you could do time.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by nononono
I live at the North Pole.

Wait. So your ex- is Santa Claus? This casts things in a different light.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by dc_chef
It does sound a little odd, but I would love to see the finished product. Eight feet wide seems a little narrow, but maybe if they were siamesed together, they could make a pretty cool den. (OTOH, it could look like your parents slapped a double-wide onto the back of their house.)

Well, the general idea of shipping container houses is that they're completely modular. You can stack them, double them up, cut them in half, etc.

This is just one firm that's using them, but there are a shit load of others out there.

Here's another under construction, and the model of what it'll eventually look like.

This is a finished house (complete with blog documenting the construction) using 9 shipping containers.

I think these guys did an awesome job for student housing in Amsterdam.

This one out of Seattle looks pretty cool, I think.

I don't like their site, but these guys do a good job of explaining the versitility of shipping containers.

ETA: and I'm totally and completely in love with this 12 container house in Maine.







(more here, but there's a very, very annoying sound I can't turn off.)

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
Wait. So your ex- is Santa Claus? This casts things in a different light.

I think he's an elf. But what she wanted was the Reindeer.