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November 2007

In the shelter

Fallout Shelter Brochure.

One of the simplest and least expensive ways to build a shelter is to wall part of the cellar with concrete blocks. The drawing below shows such a shelter in cutaway form. First, you pick a corner where there are no windows, mark your dimensions on the floor and put down a layer of wet mortar at least 3/8 inch thick to hold the first row of cement blocks. Build up layers, consulting a how-to-do-it book or manufacturer’s pamphlet on best way to apply mortar. Use a level diligently to keep layers straight and even. Leave four ventilation holes in second layer. Stop when you are within 16 inches of the ceiling to leave room for shelter roof. Build baffle wall to the same height as other walls. Baffle will stop most radiation, which behaves like light and does not go around corners, from entering the shelter door.

Place three upright 4X4 posts against one basement wall. Nail a 4X6 beam across the top of them. When mortar is dry lay the ceiling joists on edge with 12.5 inches between their centers and with one end of each joist resting on the beam and the other end resting on the block wall, 4 inches from the outer edge. On remaining 4 inches, put block laid on edge to form top layer of walls.

Nail the first planks of one-inch sheating across the beams. Stack to layers of concrete blocks, unmortared, on top of sheating. Move forward a foot or two at a time, adding sheating and blocks until the roof is completed.

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This spread demonstrated how to build a simple fallout shelter in your basement

Der Alltag kann so schön sein! Verdammt lässiger Typ auch. »So, jetzt gehen wir eben mal raus ’ne Kippe rauchen« is hier aber nicht. Das Bunkerleben hat nun mal auch seine Tücken.

Podcast November 2007


For the cover I used a photo by mary_gaston22 [CC BY-SA]

2nd anniversary!

This episode is probably the most pop-oriented up to now, especially in the first half. And at begin I immediately start with a mistake: Poni Republic is not based in Italy, but Mexico – of course a lot of pronouncing and grammar catastrophies will follow as usual – I’m doin‘ this podcast for two years now and on first anniversary I changed moderation to English – which is for some of my listeners some sort of, erm, extra entertainment. (But remember what I said after the switch and from the start: the new motto of this little netaudio show is „Good music and bad English“).

Here the playlist:

  1. Anois (Poni Republic) – November mp3
  2. Winter Took His Life (It’s a trap) – Heaven on earth mp3
  3. Björn Kleinhenz (It’s a trap) – The best of my life mp3
  4. Silence Is Sexy (Muertepop) – Kids Like Silence mp3
  5. Paolo Messere/Kiddycar (Silber Records) – You Save Me From Understanding More mp3
  6. Nuuro (Poni Republic) – Secret mp3
  7. lunao (white in music) – tale of a man that walks through the dark mp3
  8. Lucky Misu (corpid) – How To Hold On Tight (Troupe Remix) mp3
  9. Chun Lee (Catch The Falling Leaves) – Gold Spiral mp3
  10. imoutoid (Maltine Records) – PART2 mp3
  11. Francisco Pinto (Pueblo Nuevo) – The Horse mp3
  12. PNFA (Arteqcue) – again mp3
  13. verano (Arteqcue) – orange people (m.telemann remix) mp3
  14. Matthias Springer (Garganrecords) – Flächenträgheitsmoment mp3
  15. jeff willett (clear-cut-records) – gp15 mp3
  16. vamzdys (signorafranca) – asloptik mp3
  17. Garnica (Digital Audio Tropical Archives) – Paisajes Extremos mp3
  18. Margaret Noble (acroplane) – Nufon mp3

Sternstunde der Bedeutungslosigkeit

Welche Kraft führt zu dieser Selbstzerstörung im deutschen Fernsehen? Maischberger. Wiederholung der Sendung vom 30. Oktober: Samstag, 3. November, 23.30 Uhr auf 3sat. Thema: »Ufos, Engel, Außerirdische — sind wir nicht allein?«