Bored While Sick: Counting Dust Bunnies
Being sick is totally, TOTALLY boring. That is, after all of the pudding is gone. (Don't worry. I'm not terminal or contagious. I think.)
Anyhoo. Being bored AND sick AND having access to a computer, I decided to let my brain jump the tracks today and present you with abode-related linky goodness not entirely having to do with our own House In Progress. I decided to comb the internet for fun house-related stuff around the internet neighborhood.
Don't worry. We'll return to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.
MAP OF MONTICELLO
No admission fee required. Online house tours:
- Bill Gates
- Monticello
- Wright's Darwin D. Martin House
- the Simpson's (Seriously. It's the house from the Simpson's. You can live in it.)
Graceland,
- The Sculptured House
- Purcell-Cutts Online Tour
- the Winchester Mystery House
- Vermeer's House & Studio
- Dozens of homes belonging to strangers.
Totally Worthwhile Stories...Very Unlike This Blog Entry:
How to Wrap Your Friend's House in Tinfoil: A Love Story by Rachel Elder of Blacktable. (Close friends don't let friends go without tinfoil....)
My Dream Kitchen by Mark Schatzker of McSweeney's (Don't sip your coffee while at the computer...put it down before you read this or IT WILL end up on the monitor.)
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Treehouses...really cool ones!
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Post 2004 Holiday Season ...um..."Enthusiam" Round-Up.
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Helpful AND fascinating...the Household Cyclopedia published in 1881.
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SCARY HOUSE! The Shining in 30 Seconds Enacted by Bunnies.
and
in honor of the pigeons, who are back and on our roof again, PigeonKam!
Okay, I feel better now.
(Thank you to many search engines, Boing Boing, MetaFilter and Web Zen for helping me out on the links!)
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Comments
I want a tree house!
Posted by: Kristin | February 1, 2005 10:00 AM
Sorry. I didn't see the disclaimer on the Dream Kitchen story and snorted tea out of my nose. That guy was funny!
Posted by: Rita | February 1, 2005 11:19 AM
Don't forget the House on the Rock!
Feel better soon, and get more pudding!
Posted by: Tully Monster | February 1, 2005 6:14 PM
Sorry to hear you're ill. I had the flu on top of a pre-existing bronchitis the week before last all while I was wasting my week of vacation, during which I had planned many fabulous house projects. I accomplished nothing. I barely made it out of bed a few times a day. I was too wiped even to read! Feel better, and *definitely* get more pudding. Frosted strawberry Pop Tarts were my poison once I could eat again. :-)
Posted by: Kristen | February 1, 2005 9:19 PM
Get well soon Jeannie. Being sick is no fun!*
I have seen the Gates complex from Lake Union. The tour guide on the boat finished up his 10 minute description of the place by saying that in building it, Bill and Melinda spent the equivalent to what two people who make a combined 42k a year would spend on pizza for four. Think about that the next time you treat your friends.
*pudding caveat excepted
Posted by: SD | February 1, 2005 10:21 PM