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Reno has better air, water and weather than SF. I'll haul my travel trailer out of storage and you can stay in it. Space rent is $240. Buy me a 12 pack of Heineken per month for my share of the rent. Add on $10 for elect. and whatever phone connections you might need. DSL available.

Peppermill 2 blocks. Evening dinner specials at coffee shop M-T $4.95. Atlantis 2 blocks. Soup & salad bar for maybe 3 or 4 bucks -- all you can eat. I'll introduce you to my 5' 10" favorite cocktail waitress at the Peppermill and will introduce you to the breathtakingly beautiful Olga at the Atlantis.

Here's your chance to turn a curse into a blessing. Olga is enough to make a man want to leave home -- or at least muse about it from time to time. It took Anna Nicole 2 or 3 years to kill off the old geezer she married. If I could last that long it might be worth it.

Quit looking over my shoulder, Yangdu!!!
 
John:

I'm truly sorry to hear of your tough times, and as far as Health insurers go-- I think there ought to be a law against them! (I've had my fun with those idiots :mad: )

My wife & I just got through a rough spell with her getting canned after 11 years with the same company. The timing was bad ( I know, never a good time to get kicked to the curb), but She found a job through a friend making more with@#!%^* insurance costing us less.

This was the best thing for her and us. It was a growth experience, albeit painful.

I've always appreciated your posting and your pix helped show my reluctant wife how awe-inspiring Khukuris can be!

Please keep us all posted, you are in our prayers.

-Craig
 
No hippie compounds left? Guys, the structure that I am making back into a house is a DOME.
 
Yuppies took the Dome concept away from the hippies a long time ago..not unlike what happened to the log cabin. Now, if you'd said you were remodeling a PYRAMID- I would have believed you.



munk
 
Ha! Finally another dome-dweller. I love my geodesic dome. I'll never live in a square house again.
--Josh
 
..famous last words in a world of square houses. Domes are cool, though.



How bout those folks who refurbish Cold War missle silos?


munk
 
Josh, what is your dome made of? What part of the country are you in? I'm in central Texas, and the top half of this thing is some kind of foam over an aluminum frame. The doggone woodpeckers come right on inside, whenever they please! Makes rainproofing a little problematic.
 
Jack-- I'm in Northern California in the Sierra Nevada foothills, about 2400 ft elevation. My dome is standard wood frame construction with comp shingles and regular exterior siding like you'd find on a house. The interior wall surfaces are sheetrock--pretty standard construction actually. My wife and I have lived there for just over two years, and there hasn't been a single day I've regretted buying a dome. They are simply awesome. Your dome sounds interesting. Never heard of foam construction over aluminum. There's a company out there called Monolithic Domes which produces domes that are actually based on an inflatable skin under which a rebar skeleton is constructed. The whole thing is then sprayed with a thick layer of some sort of proprietary concrete mixture. They are supposed to be pretty indestructible. I like the more conventional-looking geodesic domes though.
--Josh
 
Monolithic Domes are very cool and I hope to build one some time. No more square, wind-pushing-over, termite-vulnerable, energy-wasting houses for me! And the structure uses pretty standard shotcrete, not anything special. The MD company's main product is just the inflatable, weatherproof shell.
 
... To get this book published?

I am sure we can sell a 100+ copies of the book in advance among ourselves. Perhaps Bill would even be willing to offer it for advanced sale on the HI sales site. John may be able to use that to negotiate support from a publishing house. Knife World, or Paladin Press would probably be interested in the title. It will be easy enough to find out since many people associated with both enterprises frequent these forums.

We may have to give up on the expensive glossy photos for now. But, those can always be released in a later (premium) edition of the book.

The only thing we need right now is a good synopsis of the book, a committed release date, and a price tag. If John fails to get a major publisher lined up, he can still publish the work as a velo-bound photocopied material. It wouldn't be the first time that that has happened.

I am sorry to hear about the job. There is way too much of that happening right now. But, who knows, this can be the start of a new career as the world's foremost authority of khukuries.

n2s
 
I still think a 'web'-version has many potential advantages. I don't mean an 'online book' that one has to pay for (which I think is what munk took me to be saying).

What I suggest is actually two-fold:

(1) an 'online version', which would be sort of like the Khukuri FAQ, in that it would have various chapters with text & images, etc.

(2) a (free) downloadable version, which could be printed out. we could put this downloadable version into an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file. And, in fact, this would allow for 'glossy photos' for those with colour printers. We could actually have two different downloadable files, one with the text, and one with the 'colour plates'. This way, one could print out the text in normal black and white and separately print the colour plates. One can buy glossy photo-paper for printers which would allow the colour plates to be glossy if desired.


Though the downloadable version still wouldn't be as nice as a prof. printed hard-bound book, it would actually be nicer than a photocopied version (and cheaper, at least on the 'publishing' side). And an online version would obvious be more easily accessible, and more widely 'advertise-able' than an photocopied version.

Further, the site itself would be a sort of advertising, so that it could act to facilitate a future professionally-printed edition.
 
beoram,

Why should it be free? John should be compensated for his work, and he is entitled to retain his material.

Frankly, I hope he makes a bundle.

n2s
 
I doubt he makes a 'bundle', but a modest return, and think about lectures, maybe even TV spots based upon the scholarship of the Book.

I appreciate what Beoram is saying. I like Sharp's idea of presenting the manuscript through Paladin or Wolfe. (sic) My fear of the internet as Beoram presents is it may place the book in a holding pattern; as N2Sharp suggests, if much is available through free download where is the impetus to publish?

I'll buy a copy. I think we could get a hundred presold.

Is there, or is there not through modern reproduction the ability to print as needed without the expensive type setting and production costs of the past?


munk
 
but a modest return
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A modest return on the first print run (figure 4,000 copies @$40 with a personal net of ~$20K), plus a bit more for subsequent printings, perhaps some upside if he issues an updated edition (more content, more photos, some corrections), and then there is always the window for an additional follow-on volumes, and magazine articles.

It is not a salary, but it might certainly worth putting it in print.

n2s
 
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