In response to request for new house pics, I am starting a house pics thread, which will double as a DIY showoff thread or something.
HERE IS MY NEW HOUSE. ALMOST DONE MOVING IN.
EXTERIOR SHOTS:
(https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10437793_10152501293674513_7437617214400075241_n.jpg?oh=5246b97926dbedff8faa15070630e2d9&oe=54300941)(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10345809_10152501294109513_8956968025864125307_n.jpg)
DON'T LET THESE SNEAKY FUCKING STAIRS FOOL YOU. THEY SHIFT LIKE THIS IS HOGWARTS OR SOME SHIT AND SKILLFULLY EVADE ANY ATTEMPT TO TREAD ON THEM.
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THIS SECOND PICTURE IS THE GROWING INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY LIBRARY IN OUR LOO SO PEOPLE CAN GET EDUCATED WHILE POOPIN'. BEST IDEA.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/10382000_10152501296039513_5746652817972850214_n.jpg) (https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t1.0-9/10402650_10152501308574513_5507978544588130197_n.jpg)
THERE ARE MORE ON SIGNORA'S FB IF YOU'RE HER FRIEND. OR ON MINE PROLLY. MORE TO COME WHEN WE START TEARING THINGS DOWN AND PUTTING NEW THINGS UP.
I like very nice. Right on the edge of something, seems, a body of water, perhaps?
Interesting.
Squeeee! Nice house, spags! What is the white void beyond your back yard?
I'll go take some of the Casa del Nigel in a bit.
What do you mean beyond? New Zealand is very small.
One of the things I really love about moving into an awesome place is choosing a soundtrack. Geogaddi by Boards of Canada is a great choice for locking-in the awesomeness
Quote from: Pæs on June 22, 2014, 07:57:56 PM
What do you mean beyond? New Zealand is very small.
:lulz:
This is the place where I live.
The street in front of my house, facing south:
(http://s28.postimg.org/tz4mzhjvx/2014_06_22_11_54_43.jpg)
Looking out my front door:
(http://s14.postimg.org/icnfbegk1/2014_04_25_17_10_52.jpg)
Front of my house:
(http://s28.postimg.org/e2f1u9699/2014_06_22_11_55_32.jpg)
From the front door:
(http://s28.postimg.org/pat8i1k31/2014_06_22_11_56_00.jpg)
In the dining room facing the living room:
(http://s27.postimg.org/iem2prqwj/2014_06_22_13_46_22.jpg)
In the living room facing the dining room:
(http://s28.postimg.org/5f6ftzht9/2014_06_22_12_25_12.jpg)
Kitchen:
(http://s28.postimg.org/hfrvupp7x/2014_06_22_12_24_38.jpg)
Kithen, other end:
(http://s28.postimg.org/zfwhlcs19/2014_06_22_12_21_31.jpg)
More kitchen and door to housemate's room:
(http://s28.postimg.org/b71yne299/2014_06_22_12_00_30.jpg)
Stairs to the basement and the Top of the Bottom:
(http://s28.postimg.org/eronf4s19/2014_06_22_11_58_56.jpg)
Attic:
(http://s28.postimg.org/n7itadka5/2014_06_22_11_59_46.jpg)
Door to Little Orange's room:
(http://s28.postimg.org/w154dqhv1/2014_06_22_12_00_13.jpg)
Insanely messy office:
(http://s28.postimg.org/urghq62ul/2014_06_22_12_23_07.jpg)
Back yard:
(http://s28.postimg.org/7tybeey25/2014_06_22_12_03_10.jpg)
Oh my god you've got one of those geodesic thingamawhatsits in your backyard! I loved that shit when I was a kid.
I'll try to remember to take pics of my living arrangements. It looks like poop.
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on June 22, 2014, 09:16:59 PM
Oh my god you've got one of those geodesic thingamawhatsits in your backyard! I loved that shit when I was a kid.
Little Orange toned her perfect abs on that thing. She's mostly moved on to scaling the apricot tree now, though, so I think it's about time to pass it on to my best friend who's kid is about to turn one.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 22, 2014, 10:12:37 PM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on June 22, 2014, 09:16:59 PM
Oh my god you've got one of those geodesic thingamawhatsits in your backyard! I loved that shit when I was a kid.
Little Orange toned her perfect abs on that thing. She's mostly moved on to scaling the apricot tree now, though, so I think it's about time to pass it on to my best friend who's kid is about to turn one.
I had a rope swing on a tree between the ages of about 5 and 13. I was a scrawny little kid, but by god I could climb better and hold a pull-up longer than anyone my age.
Climbing is great, I need to find a way to do it more as an adult.
Nigel has the best kitchen ever.
It's large, and probably also the room other than my office that I spend the most time in.
Here's pics of mine. Mostly exterior since the inside right now is a shitshow because work puked all over the place.
This is what my studio looks like when it's not a huge violation of OSHA and the Geneva Convention:
(http://i.imgur.com/wS6A9QBl.jpg)
This is our hunting lodge, which is actually a corner in our living room. complete with bar and pith helmet. For adventurin's.
(http://i.imgur.com/J4q8XDhl.jpg)
This is my balcony. It's lovely, and infested with wood bees.
(http://i.imgur.com/QrwgZBYl.jpg)
And this is the giant slab of granite my building is perched on. Because I live in the Granite State.
(http://i.imgur.com/x5QVrjXl.jpg)
Suu, I love your hunting lodge, it is epic!
And useful. When I invite friends up to "the lodge in New Hampshire." They don't need to go farther than my living room for a fine Balvenie and a real dead deer!
I love the hunting lodge, and the slab of granite! We don't have granite here. We have basalt. Hundreds and hundreds of miles of basalt.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 23, 2014, 11:56:01 PM
I love the hunting lodge, and the slab of granite! We don't have granite here. We have basalt. Hundreds and hundreds of miles of basalt.
Igneous rocks ftw! I often wonder where the volcanoes were in the Appalachians, but I do know that a fair chunk of New England was underwater. They've found whale fossils in Vermont.
Quote from: The Suu on June 24, 2014, 12:24:38 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 23, 2014, 11:56:01 PM
I love the hunting lodge, and the slab of granite! We don't have granite here. We have basalt. Hundreds and hundreds of miles of basalt.
Igneous rocks ftw! I often wonder where the volcanoes were in the Appalachians, but I do know that a fair chunk of New England was underwater. They've found whale fossils in Vermont.
Unless I'm hugely mistaken, there were none. Any igneous rock visible in that region is almost definitely exposed basement rock, or ophiolites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiolite) (uplifted chunks of oceanic crust).
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on June 24, 2014, 02:03:28 AM
Quote from: The Suu on June 24, 2014, 12:24:38 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 23, 2014, 11:56:01 PM
I love the hunting lodge, and the slab of granite! We don't have granite here. We have basalt. Hundreds and hundreds of miles of basalt.
Igneous rocks ftw! I often wonder where the volcanoes were in the Appalachians, but I do know that a fair chunk of New England was underwater. They've found whale fossils in Vermont.
Unless I'm hugely mistaken, there were none. Any igneous rock visible in that region is almost definitely exposed basement rock, or ophiolites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiolite) (uplifted chunks of oceanic crust).
So the range itself was built entirely by tectonic movement, and the ophiolite makes sense, in that a great deal of the coast was underwater, and it all got moved up. It's entirely humbling to think of how old these rocks here on the East Coast are as opposed to the West, which are STILL old. Geological time is fascinating.
Quote from: The Suu on June 24, 2014, 02:27:05 AM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on June 24, 2014, 02:03:28 AM
Quote from: The Suu on June 24, 2014, 12:24:38 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 23, 2014, 11:56:01 PM
I love the hunting lodge, and the slab of granite! We don't have granite here. We have basalt. Hundreds and hundreds of miles of basalt.
Igneous rocks ftw! I often wonder where the volcanoes were in the Appalachians, but I do know that a fair chunk of New England was underwater. They've found whale fossils in Vermont.
Unless I'm hugely mistaken, there were none. Any igneous rock visible in that region is almost definitely exposed basement rock, or ophiolites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiolite) (uplifted chunks of oceanic crust).
So the range itself was built entirely by tectonic movement, and the ophiolite makes sense, in that a great deal of the coast was underwater, and it all got moved up. It's entirely humbling to think of how old these rocks here on the East Coast are as opposed to the West, which are STILL old. Geological time is fascinating.
Yep. East coast geology and tectonics are a fucking mess, too. This whole side of continent is accreted from various smaller continents that got smashed into it while the subduction zone still existed, and various mountain ranges that grew and eroded away. The Catskills are not tectonic at all, on that note: they are the leftovers of the Taconic Mountains, now gone, which eroded into sediment at the bottom of a shallow sea. When that sea got uplifted above sea level and the sediment became stone, rain and river formation carved out the Catskills.
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on June 24, 2014, 02:50:30 AM
Quote from: The Suu on June 24, 2014, 02:27:05 AM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on June 24, 2014, 02:03:28 AM
Quote from: The Suu on June 24, 2014, 12:24:38 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 23, 2014, 11:56:01 PM
I love the hunting lodge, and the slab of granite! We don't have granite here. We have basalt. Hundreds and hundreds of miles of basalt.
Igneous rocks ftw! I often wonder where the volcanoes were in the Appalachians, but I do know that a fair chunk of New England was underwater. They've found whale fossils in Vermont.
Unless I'm hugely mistaken, there were none. Any igneous rock visible in that region is almost definitely exposed basement rock, or ophiolites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiolite) (uplifted chunks of oceanic crust).
So the range itself was built entirely by tectonic movement, and the ophiolite makes sense, in that a great deal of the coast was underwater, and it all got moved up. It's entirely humbling to think of how old these rocks here on the East Coast are as opposed to the West, which are STILL old. Geological time is fascinating.
Yep. East coast geology and tectonics are a fucking mess, too. This whole side of continent is accreted from various smaller continents that got smashed into it while the subduction zone still existed, and various mountain ranges that grew and eroded away. The Catskills are not tectonic at all, on that note: they are the leftovers of the Taconic Mountains, now gone, which eroded into sediment at the bottom of a shallow sea. When that sea got uplifted above sea level and the sediment became stone, rain and river formation carved out the Catskills.
I'm assuming that also goes for the modern Taconics/Hudson Highlands as well. I always thought the Catskills just looked weird in comparison to the Adirondacks and the Whites, which are arguably still "pointy" for old mountains. That, and you can see the rock differences just driving on the highway on the switchbacks from New Jersey to Massachusetts. The Hudson and Mohawk valleys are all shale and slate, while the Berkshires into the Greens and Whites are granite. Weeeeeeird. I learned a thing! I shall impress the Jeff with this on our next "hang on, we gotta drive through the *bleeping* mountains" roadtrip.