Would/Could you do this?
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 02:12 last edited by
@89th said in Would/Could you do this?:
I’d do it, even without plumbing or electricity.
When I was a kid, our family would vacation in Canada, near Georgian Bay. My parents would rent a cabin for 3 weeks or so, and in the early days, these cabins did not have indoor plumbing (at least as far as sanitation is concerned - I remember using an outhouse) or electricity - kerosene lamps were what we used for lighting.
Somehow, we survived.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 02:49 last edited by
ereader = sign me up.
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@89th said in Would/Could you do this?:
I’d do it, even without plumbing or electricity.
When I was a kid, our family would vacation in Canada, near Georgian Bay. My parents would rent a cabin for 3 weeks or so, and in the early days, these cabins did not have indoor plumbing (at least as far as sanitation is concerned - I remember using an outhouse) or electricity - kerosene lamps were what we used for lighting.
Somehow, we survived.
wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 02:57 last edited by@george-k said in Would/Could you do this?:
Somehow, we survived.
Sure. I could survive. But would I want to do it for a month? Nope.
Electricity and plumbing and I bring my digital, then sure.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 03:07 last edited by
Heck, I would do it even without that $100K if I could just get away from my existing responsibilities for that one month. Would be a bonus if a functional piano is thrown in.
Not that I "need" TV and recorded music, but I did some calculations anyway:
- Standard definition TV, assuming a generous 2 Mbps bit rate, you need only 218 GB to store enough video to watch 8 hours a day for 31 days without repeating any scene. A 256 GB iPhone/iPad can handle that just fine. Double up to a 512 GB iPhone/iPad and you can watch "TV" for 16 hours day for 31 days without repeating any scene.
- Pretty good quality AAC audio at 160 kbps, you need only 16 GB to store enough music to watch 8 hours a day for 31 days without repeating anything.
- Books ... assuming 600 words per second reading speed (because you don't necessarily read every word and you skip over some boring/repetitive passages every now and then) and considering the typical English novel averages less than 6 letters per word, throw in spaces and punctuation, call it 8 bytes per word on average. You need only 9 Mbytes to store enough words to read for 8 hours a day for 31 days. Let's say you throw in some pictures and graphics embedded in whatever books you're reading, and we multiply by 1000 to account for these pictures and graphics, it's still only 9 GB.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 03:55 last edited by
Ok Ax you win. I think you need this cabin more than anyone
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 04:12 last edited by
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 04:52 last edited by
Can I bring hubby? Can I bring my rug hooking? If I have those, I would be fine. The money would be fun, too.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 06:53 last edited by
I’d do it for six months if u upped the fee to one million.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 09:39 last edited by
One month without the kids
and my wife? Heck, I’d even pay $100K for this. -
wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 12:22 last edited by
Would I do it? Heck, yeah. With hardback books and a stack of loaded Kindles and a good complex yoga routine? Piece of cake.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 12:28 last edited by
Could I do it?
Heck, I've done it. I was younger, though.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 13:11 last edited by
Why are ya’ll looking at pictures of my childhood home?
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 19:18 last edited by
@klaus said in Would/Could you do this?:
One month without the kids
and my wife? Heck, I’d even pay $100K for this.I'll build a bunk in my garden shed for you, Klaus. Get your bank account ready to make the money transfer to my account.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 19:36 last edited by
100k lol. I take shits worth more than 100k.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 19:45 last edited by
@horace said in Would/Could you do this?:
100k lol. I take shits worth more than 100k.
Where do you take them from?
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@horace said in Would/Could you do this?:
100k lol. I take shits worth more than 100k.
Where do you take them from?
wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 19:49 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in Would/Could you do this?:
@horace said in Would/Could you do this?:
100k lol. I take shits worth more than 100k.
Where do you take them from?
Smugglers who swallow diamonds, mostly.
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 20:15 last edited by
Piece of cake. I wouldn’t even need books. Art supplies would be nice - or at least paper would be nice - (I could make my own drawing and painting materials) Would prefer it not to be winter - but if I had all the food and water and firewood, I could manage, no problem. Would be fun!
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wrote on 29 Dec 2020, 20:20 last edited by
I would certainly look at it as some sort of fun adventure. I think one month would go by pretty fast for me.
