Neo, what if I told you something about headlines that end in question marks.
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Oh … one more thing …
It looks like he doesn’t wash his clothes either but throws them away or donates them when they get dirty. I thought there were laundromats at every corner in any decent town or city in USA.
In that regard he sounds like Jack Reacher - the main protagonist from books by my favourite author Lee Child. Jack Reacher doesn’t own anything, but clothes on his back. He says that buying new clothes when the old ones are dirty is cheaper [in the long run] than paying for the house where he would keep his washing machine and other things he would inevitably accumulate once he started to own things.
Jack Reacher also always eats at dinners or restaurants, because it is cheaper [in the long run] than paying for the house where his kitchen would have to be located … 
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I’d like to have you over for dinner…
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…so should I rename the Fermenting thread in Craft to Rotting Ingredients? It is accurate.
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I’m a little baffled by that bit of his essay; he proudly says that everything he’s used to engineer his new life is available on Amazon (except for Soylent, of course), except that a significant part of his new lifestyle involves having his clothes custom made “in China” at mysterious prices “you would not believe”. He gives no reference to where one can get clothes custom made so cheaply that they’re literally disposable, but it’s definitely not Amazon.
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…strange things you’ve found on alibaba thread?
Eta
$2-$8 each, maybe? Can I find cheaper?
Ah find out where these guys source and $3 shirts and $8 pants. I’m sure a tech exec in SF can find Chinese sources, even over small talk at a cocktail party, easily.
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Amen, brother.
Maybe I’m a bleeding heart liberal or something, but in my view the word “creepy” should be reserved for people who either are acting in a bad fashion and need to be shamed out of it, or who have such bad intentions that the rest of us should be warned to stay away from them.
Does anyone here have a real reason to want to shame this guy out of posting that essay?
Do you see any sign that this guy’s a danger to people he meets? I mean, his essay makes it pretty clear he doesn’t bring company over to his place very often.
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I mean, I buy tonnes of supplies off Alibaba/Aliexpress, and MrPants has a tailor in Thailand but that actually required a trip to get measured, once you’re measured its super cheap to order via email, but the measuring is the thing. But Ive never seen anything but off the rack clothes on alibaba.
Mind you, every seller on there wants to have an off-site relationship with you so maybe you could find someone that way?
I dunno, he just sounds like a crank trying to use “logic” to explain why he doesn’t do the dishes. No one likes doing dishes, its why its a chore. /shrug
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That’s why I get my dishes custom-made in Peru and cart the dirty plates down to Goodwill after every meal so they can wash them for me and sell them to the poor. I feel pretty good about myself and my contribution to society.
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When I do them all by hand I like it. I find it meditative and calming for whatever reason.
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Be sure to take an Uber to the Goodwill to maximize your impact!
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I am tangentially involved in a project involving 3d-scanning of people for custom-designed clothes. There are many other projects of this kind out there. So the measurement is going to not need a physical presence anymore.
If the body is not grossly nonstandard, it can be characterized by just a few measures. These can be obtained once, possibly even by oneself. That’s what those tape measures are for. Can be also substituted by that flexible construction-grade steel tape measure.
Sending a set of numbers overseas is then about as easy as it can be.
I work at a uni that has one of those 3D body scanners even. The future is bright for those of us that can order custom made clothes from overseas indeed. (for those making the clothes not so much) But still we are speaking of the future, right now its still a guy with a fabric tape measure. 
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Fair! I know a few examples of my take, one in particular who only eats frozen burritos for lunch and dinner, hates cooking and going out to eat (a “waste of money”.)
I know people that also only eat frozen (or fresh) burritos but they do it for diet reasons (diet as in restricting calories).
People are weird.
Food is one of those highly personal things that we as a species seem incapable of discussing without taking/getting personal. Which is interesting in of itself!
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Correct!
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Would you say that you’re disappointed in Boing Boing?
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Not unless he was some sort of influencer, where people listened to what he said. Then he would be dangerous…
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You’re just agreeing because they pay you to!
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