Would/Could you do this?

[George K]

Sure, if I had my music and my books.

Double sure if I had my movies/tv shows.

[jon-nyc]

Plumbing? Electricity?

[89th]

I’d do it, even without plumbing or electricity. Now, tell me more about these call phones

[George K]

@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.

[Aqua Letifer]

ereader = sign me up.

[jon-nyc]

@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.

[Axtremus]

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.

[89th]

Ok Ax you win. I think you need this cabin more than anyone

[jon-nyc]

@89th Lol

[Axtremus]

@89th said in Would/Could you do this?:

Ok Ax you win. I think you need this cabin more than anyone

[jon-nyc]

@axtremus lol

[brenda]

Can I bring hubby? Can I bring my rug hooking? If I have those, I would be fine. The money would be fun, too.

[bachophile]

I’d do it for six months if u upped the fee to one million.

[Klaus]

One month without the kids and my wife? Heck, I’d even pay $100K for this.

[Catseye3]

Would I do it? Heck, yeah. With hardback books and a stack of loaded Kindles and a good complex yoga routine? Piece of cake.

[Jolly]

Could I do it?

Heck, I've done it. I was younger, though.

[LuFins Dad]

Why are ya’ll looking at pictures of my childhood home?

[brenda]

@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.

[Horace]

100k lol. I take shits worth more than 100k.

[Doctor Phibes]

@horace said in Would/Could you do this?:

100k lol. I take shits worth more than 100k.

Where do you take them from?