Browser-based Idle Game by Frank Lantz lets you control an AI that runs a paperclip company.
There are no instructions but if you are familiar with the game AdVenture Capitalist you will probably work things out (and get drawn into it in the same way, drawn by the growing numbers and frustrated with impatience to level things up).
“The SOLARDOME encasement is 25-foot high
and completely encapsulates the five-bedroom, two bathroom abode. This
building protects the six-person family from strong winds and heavy snow
loads. Additionally, it helps to drastically reduce the heating bill. “
“Because the geodesic dome
extends past the cob home, there is room for a garden area which
supplies the family with apples, cherries, plums, apricots, kiwis,
grapes, cucumbers, tomatoes, herbs, squash and melons – basically, much
of their food supply. The family is able to subsist sustainably despite living without sunlight for three months every year.”
This is lovely.
I wonder how much it costs to acquire land and build it and run it (things break and must be replaced, someone has to haul away the waste, etc). Are designs open source? How do they generate energy in dark winter months? Where do their children go to school and what is the quality of education there?
What would happen if 1% of US (ostensibly first world country with resources) population, or 3,230,000 people, decided to live like this?
I don’t do backslaps and high fives. I just can’t physically bring myself up to do it and I recoil when others do it.
I can’t sincerely call people I barely know “buddy” and “bro” and so I don’t. Though somehow genderneutral “dude”, “mate” and “mon” – to both men and women – comes easier – but only if I know them a little.
I will never fit in this company.
That Camille show at Le Poisson Rouge I was so excited about that I got tickets for that was supposed to be a surprise?
Ain’t happening. 7pm shows is just not something we do anymore. Or 8pm shows. Or 9pm, or any shows for that matter, it seems.
Just emailed my friends to see who would take the tickets off my hands (for free) because Camille is incredible, and she never comes to the States, and it would be terrible for them to go to waste.
A man in a smoking jacket on subway plays Bach cello suites, beautifully…
The sign next to the cellist has his name – Eric Robert Jacobson. I think of the thousands of hours of practice-practice-practice he has to have spent, the hopes he and his parents had for his future. Did he ever get to perform at Carnegie Hall?
I don’t want to get on the arriving train even though I am hopelessly late to the office that manages the Very Rich Man’s money.
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