My son, Evan, will be hosting the Shelter booth at the Maker Faire in San Mateo this weekend selling books at a discounted price. Come on by and check out the booth.
Maker Faire Info: www.makerfaire.com/…
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
My son, Evan, will be hosting the Shelter booth at the Maker Faire in San Mateo this weekend selling books at a discounted price. Come on by and check out the booth.
Lloyd,
Sorry to hear that you won't be posting as often. I'm one of those 500 that check your blog pretty much daily and use your blog and a little background information about you in introductory computer science classes as an example of blogging/Social Media. After reading your post I went to the Shelter pubs site and bought 3 more of your books. Best wishes to you and keep up the good work!
Marshall Reeves
Spy town for sale: $1M for 92 homes plus dorms, police and fire stations, sport facilities. Don’t mind all those satellite dishes
http://news.nationalpost.com/homes/spy-town-for-sale-1m-for-92-homes-plus-dorms-police-and-fire-stations-sport-facilities-dont-mind-all-those-satellite-dishes
an auction reserve of US$1 million, the buyer will get a 120-acre former government spy station in Sugar Grove Station, W. Va. The giant satellite dishes are still there and still track the location and content of international telecommunications activity, but they’re not part of the deal, and anyway they’re hidden behind a thick forest a mile away (makes you feel better, right?).
the property sits within the U.S.’s 13,000-square-mile National Radio Quiet Zone, where no cellphones, wi-fi or any equipment operating on radio frequencies are allowed
The highest bidder will get a fenced and gated town, with 80 charming houses (“in like-new condition”) on tree-lined streets just as many small American towns have.
Included in the price are a pool, a bowling alley, a daycare centre, a community centre, a gym, a full-size indoor basketball court, tennis and racquetball courts, a football field, a playground with kiddie pool, a hobby shop for cars or woodworking, a police station and a fire hall. And dorms and administrative buildings.
http://news.nationalpost.com/homes/spy-town-for-sale-1m-for-92-homes-plus-dorms-police-and-fire-stations-sport-facilities-dont-mind-all-those-satellite-dishes
Auction Page
http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucdsclnk?sl=PEACH416004001