[i also posted this on freshmeat. you may find more comments here.] i'm sitting in shelter #92 in patapso state park on a glorious cool spring day. the sunlight makes the leaves glow as the breeze tosses them, and the pair of does grazing the hillside next to us have finally wandered off. the picnic…
thoughts about riding the bus (and train)
"This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient..." -- Thoreau for the past six months, i've almost entirely let my car sit in front of the house and gotten around by buses and trains. so far, there hasn't been a single occasion on which i had to use the car,…
free stuff
this has to be one of the best uses of the internet i've seen: it's now trivial for people to pass the things they don't want to people who can use them. my first great experience with this was through craigslist. i've been looking forward for a long time for them to add a baltimore…
yuppies
[this is the text of a response i made on misc.consumers.frugal-living to a post criticizing the fact that elaine saint james's books advocate frugality to people who don't need to be frugal.] i think elaine saint james fills an important need, but i'll hasten to add that i'm not a part of her target audience.…
one plate, one fork, one spoon
time to explain the title of this section. last winter, i checked living the simple life, another of elaine st. james's books, out of the library. it had a bibliography in the back which i photocopied before i returned the book, and i've read a couple of the recommended books. one of them was clutter…
