I have been working so much and so frequently on a multi-float Halloween parade entry I’ve designed with so much help from co-designer Ashley Bellet (who is an outstanding costume designer, by the way). All I can think about in my non-work-time is going camping with two good friends, Roger and Ru, so I have been thinking a lot lately about camping and the kind of nerd stuff that I like to try when camping. It’s almost as if camping represents some kind of peaceful non-work place where there are magic bottles of Shiner Bock just begging me to drink them, and the breeze coming off of the lake is as good as zoning out in front of the TV.
Solar water condensation filters – have you seen anything like this before? This is the kind of stuff I dreamed in my head as a kid – my folks gave me this awesome little 18X24 drafting set when I was 8 or 9, I don’t remember. I used to draw this kind of stuff in my room with my little t-square and 30-60-90 triangle. I also came up with a flying ninja space wagon, a large rocket that could drive my GI Joes around the house, and for some reason, plan views of my little imaginary mountain towns… OF THE FUTURE.
Do you have any idea what it is I’m rambling about here? From Len McDougall’s The Self-Reliance Manifesto: How to Survive Anything Anywhere
Another way to go about this is by taking a large container and a small container and some plastic wrap to make a sort-of crock-pot style water catcher – like this:
Nothing major, imagine a black aluminum pan or a bucket, even – and inside, a smaller jar that will collect the condensate. Over the top of the large container should be a piece of clear (or at least very translucent) plastic wrap that acts as the “airtight” barrier between the water environment and the outside air, and a little rock. Like, a rock – not like Lynyrd Skynyrd. When you put the rock in the center of the plastic wrap, you’ve created a little funnel that pretty much directs the water right into the collecting container! Now how simple and awesome is that?!
Ok. Back to your breakfast. Just a total random bit of my brain, interjecting itself onto the world.
