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My Friends and I Bought an Island (2013) (tynan.com)
17 points by lambda_garden on Aug 24, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Unbelievable. A post about buying an island includes zero numbers concerning the costs.


I finished building several new ponds last year, sited on a small seasonal creek here on my farm. One of them has a small island in it, because it worked out that it took very little extra effort.

I haven’t told my wife that I want to dig a trench to the center of the island, create an even smaller pond, containing its own tiny island.

Seriously, islands represent solitude, something that is scarce in the modern age. I totally get the appeal, and my farm is already in the middle of nowhere.


You can add your recursive island to Wikipedia when you finish building it :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_islands_and_lakes


I am only slightly ashamed to admit that's where I got the idea.


Looks like there were a few followups after that:

https://tynan.com/?s=Island




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