Recent content by shabti

So I'm on my first long term road trip since joining the site. We went through all of northern Cali, and It was my first time hitching. A lot of really cool people and experiences, but there was one thing that stuck out to me: how obsolete most of the info on Hitchwiki is, and how perfectly...

So I needed...dafaq was it? Bearing lube I think. Found these hanging on the wall of Zumies. Your opinions?

Just what the title says. I'm pretty stoked. Tickets aren't that expensive, so if you're nearby, hit it up.

So I'm researching the whole tiny house thing, now that I have a tow vehicle. Ran into this article where they made a house out of the shipping containers you find on trains. It's kind of astounding how many of these 'not suitable for habitation' type things can be turned into totally insulated...

Hey, so I went to my first archaeological dig over the labor day weekend. It was close to Three Rivers in NM, so I went up there to check out the petroglyphs. We were excavating a paleo-indian site that's been dated from 600 C.E. The place where you see us all digging was a Kiva. There could be...

Prices being what they are, and capitalism doing what it does, and Petroleum being what it is, has all led me to research alternative fuel sources. You can run your van/car/whatever internal combustion thing on Ethanol, which can be made in a portable still. Here's a list of resources I found...

This guy is making tear-drop campers that are light enough to be towed by a bicycle. http://www.tinyhousedesign.com/ultralight-teardrop-trailer-for-a-bicycle/

So I like being dirty, but not riding dirty. Anyone know how this whole insurance thing works? I'm looking around at all these different companies, and I don't want to request a quote from all of them, since they run your credit everytime you do this. Are there specific things to put in a...

I ran across this article on the Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/the-pre-made-solar-powered-tiny-house/394112/ It's about these tiny houses that have wind turbines, collect rain water, and are solar powered. Pre-fab too. I know there are a lot of these, like...

I'm tired of paying rent at the homeless shelter. I've wanted to do the tiny house/camper living thing for a while. So I'm house sitting for a friend, and driving her hybrid around, and I started looking online for cars, and BOOM. A 2005 Jeep Liberty CRD. I don't know how long they'll host this...

So....I can't do it. The Exploited, the Casualties, Pisschrist, the Dead Kennedies, Reagan Youth, Minor Threat... The list goes on and on and on. The list of bands that EVERYONE seems to love, but I can't...seem to get into. So I'm asking for help. I'm a metalhead. I'll provide a list of...

So what happened to the news section? Anyway, for lack of a better place to put this, here are some people making skateboards out of discarded building materials, and then giving them out to kids in Cali. "Once there was trash....now there is skateboarding." what do you guys think?

Da fuq? Ran into this article on gawker. FBI ran an op called "project thunder" that targeted Crusties, and animal liberation peoples. http://gawker.com/5892639/how-the-fbi-monitored-crusty-punks-anarchist-hangouts-and-an-organic-farmers-market-under-the-guise-of-combating-terrorism Here is a...

Who here uses them? Designated hiking gps thing? I was looking at buying a garmin gps and two way radio thingy. http://www.rei.com/product/825518/garmin-rino-650-gps2-way-radio At school, I know the geology department uses them. I kind of wanted to figure out how to log coordinates into a GIS...

So................. folding bikes. Or a bmx. Whatcha think? Is an extra 30 pounds worth it? (with tubes, pump, patch kit, lock, multi-tool, lights...? all that jaz is like, 30 pounds.) would you guys take one with you?