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Cedar stump house, Edgecomb, Washington, approximately 1901

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This is so cool.
There’s a woman just up the road from us who is building her own home, on a lot she bought , from small trees - mostly birch and pine.
. It’s a bit bigger than this. She’s having a hard time getting electricity to it. The general rule here is that you have to have a septic system and a well to qualify for electricity. Before building this she was living in a modified garbage bin. ( literally )
 
This is so cool.
There’s a woman just up the road from us who is building her own home, on a lot she bought , from small trees - mostly birch and pine.
. It’s a bit bigger than this. She’s having a hard time getting electricity to it. The general rule here is that you have to have a septic system and a well to qualify for electricity. Before building this she was living in a modified garbage bin. ( literally )

That is interesting. Resourceful and possibly cheaper. If legalities don't get ironed out it may not be.
 
Fans in NYC following a game of the 1912 World Series by watching a Playograph. What's a playograph ?

From the Wikipedia:

"
The Playograph was a machine or an electric scoreboard used to transmit the details of a baseball game in the era before television. It is approximated by the "gamecast" feature on some sports web sites: it had a reproduction of a baseball diamond, with an inning-by-inning scoreboard, each team's lineup, and it simulated each pitch: a ball, a strike, a hit, an out, and so on.

A telegraph operator, who was watching the game live, transmitted the details of the baseball game to the two people operating the Playograph. An "X" on the diamond represented a runner; an "O" was displayed if the runner got out. A ball was moved animatronically to show fastballs or curveballs, where it was hit, and so on."


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