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Living Off The Grid

The other night I went to hang out with a friend's dad who has lived off the grid for 20 years. I first started hearing about this sort of thing in detail shortly before the Y2K debacle. Lots of tech guys who knew way too much got super convinced that the end of the world was …

07/Sep/2010 – 05:39 | By Si Dawson | Posted in home, life | Comments (9)

Earplugs

I got a set of earplugs a few years back, when I was heading off to Burning Man. I saw on them on ebay for, I dunno, maybe 30 bucks. I'm thinking ok, I'll be there ten nights, I want really good earplugs, since people running around with airhorns at 7am is a relatively common …

25/Mar/2010 – 08:48 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun, home | Comments (7)

The Upside to Abusing Cacao

Last night about 9pm I had a fruit salad. It was tasty. What wasn't so clever was putting raw chocolate sauce on it (cacao powder, coconut oil, raw honey). I went to sleep around 1–1:30ish. At 3:30 I woke up, wide awake, and could NOT get back to sleep. Ok, so cacao late at night = bad …

19/Aug/2008 – 13:19 | By Si Dawson | Posted in home, raw | Comments (6)

Thar's Gold In Them Thar Street

I saw this today: Yep, a glorious rainbow! Well, that's one end of it. But take a gander at the other end: Have a look at that!! The end of the rainbow is in front of the building. This means, of course, that there's a pot o' gold somewhere in my street! Woohoo! Amusingly, there's already …

13/Aug/2008 – 10:44 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun, home | Comments (3)

Beauty At Dusk

Winter is finally thawing into spring, the days are slowly getting brighter. It's finally warm enough to venture onto the balcony at dusk. This is what beckoned to me: (click for larger version) From here I get a three hundred degree view of this every evening. Nothing quite like being overwhelmed by the splendour of nature. …

05/Aug/2008 – 11:28 | By Si Dawson | Posted in home | Comments (0)

The Subtle Power Of A Room Shuffle

I recently shuffled my entire office around. Why? Because it was time for serious change. Remember that scene from Dead Poet's Society, where the teacher, played by Robin Williams, gets the kids to stand on their desks so they can see the world in a different way? Yeah, it's like that now. Only more so. Now, …

27/Jul/2008 – 11:18 | By Si Dawson | Posted in home | Comments (2)

Food Processor — Inner City Styles

I'm seeing more & more recipes that need a food processor — but my kitchen is only big enough for midgets (or two regular people if one of them stands on the bench) I already have a juicer & blender (that both see a lot of use). Between them they already take up half my bench …

03/Jul/2008 – 02:10 | By Si Dawson | Posted in home, raw | Comments (7)

Cleaning House — Removing obvious food toxins

I've just come off a thirty something day juice feast, followed by a four day water fast (more on that lot later), and after all that cleansing, I started thinking about what I was now going to be putting into my body again. Why waste all that time by just putting more toxins in? So I …

30/Jun/2008 – 07:55 | By Si Dawson | Posted in health, home, raw | Comments (1)