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No, you've got the right guy / house. I remember the bed that was supposed
to rise thru the roof and that observatory type of theme. Maybe they gave up
on the rotating bs or, I could be remembering wrong. I guess it got built is
some fashion, eh! I never knew the guys name but I probably wouldn't have
put it together with the guy space traveling with the russians.

I remember the talk about the secret passageways you mention and the duct
work was all supposed to be big enough that you could sneak around inside of
it or something. We had just finished working on Michael Dell's (much less)
crazy but no less extravagant house up there.

Chris
99BBB

"pws" > wrote in message
...
> Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
>> Sometime I should try to find the house in Austin that I was supposed to
>> do the stone work in, that construction got halted in the middle of. It
>> was a software guy who'd hit it rich in one of those dungeons and dragons
>> types of games and he was building a house befitting .......... that
>> nuttiness!? Anyway, it was a castle with a moat and a drawbridge and the
>> interior of the house was to rotate at slow speed all the time (don't ask
>> me to explain please, I'm a stone guy). Anyway, they built the super
>> complicated beginnings before the bottom fell out of the dot-com boom
>> (IIRC) and it skidded to a stop. Probably still sitting there.
>>
>> Chris
>
> The only nutty software guy who made it rich from D&D type games in Austin
> that I know of is Richard Garriott, the creator of the Ultima series. I
> worked for his company between 1990 - 1993.
> The company, Origin Systems, Inc., sold out to Electronic Arts in 1992,
> iirc.
>
> His house has an observatory that is a miniature of the real ones, it
> rotates and was placed on a steel frame that does not touch the structure
> of the house at all and actually had the house built around it, so that
> winds do not shift the metal dome.
> It was very cool to go up there and of course it has a huge telescope. The
> house also has a dungeon and secret doorways and passages throughout.
>
> This guy now has another house with a bed that raises through the roof
> into an enclosed plexiglass viewing area.
>
> He recently went into space on a Russian rocket at a cost of 30 million
> dollars, so he found a way to make even more bucks somewhere.
>
> I never did hear about a rotating interior, that could be someone else,
> but it sure sounds like he is the one you are talking about.
>
> I added "NMC" just in case someone thinks that we are talking about Miatas
> in Austin. :-)
>
> Pat
>

pws > wrote:

> XS11E wrote:
>
>> I'd prefer to stay in the US.... <GD&R>
>
> Hehe, I opened myself up for that one. Also, I like Arizona too
> much for a comeback, so I give.....
>
> I might be driving across that state of your's on the way to visit
> California soon. How much longer before it gets really hot?

Not until June probably. Let me know, we'll put a sleeping bag in the
outhouse and throw another potato in the pot....


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XS11E wrote:

> Not until June probably. Let me know, we'll put a sleeping bag in the
> outhouse and throw another potato in the pot....


I can feel the love all the way from here.......Thanks, man.....

Pat

Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
> No, you've got the right guy / house. I remember the bed that was
> supposed to rise thru the roof and that observatory type of theme. Maybe
> they gave up on the rotating bs or, I could be remembering wrong. I
> guess it got built is some fashion, eh! I never knew the guys name but I
> probably wouldn't have put it together with the guy space traveling with
> the russians.
>
> I remember the talk about the secret passageways you mention and the
> duct work was all supposed to be big enough that you could sneak around
> inside of it or something. We had just finished working on Michael
> Dell's (much less) crazy but no less extravagant house up there.
>
> Chris
> 99BBB

Here is a picture and description of the place for anyone still reading
this completely off-topic thread.... :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Manor

Pat

Wait a minute Pat ....... which 'pot' is he going to throw another potato
in?
Chris
99BBB

> XS11E wrote:
>
>> Not until June probably. Let me know, we'll put a sleeping bag in the
>> outhouse and throw another potato in the pot....
>
>
> I can feel the love all the way from here.......Thanks, man.....
>
> Pat

Good work! That's definitely the house. It looks far more 'normal' from the
outside than I envisioned.

Chris
99BBB

"pws" > wrote in message
...
> Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
>> No, you've got the right guy / house. I remember the bed that was
>> supposed to rise thru the roof and that observatory type of theme. Maybe
>> they gave up on the rotating bs or, I could be remembering wrong. I guess
>> it got built is some fashion, eh! I never knew the guys name but I
>> probably wouldn't have put it together with the guy space traveling with
>> the russians.
>>
>> I remember the talk about the secret passageways you mention and the duct
>> work was all supposed to be big enough that you could sneak around inside
>> of it or something. We had just finished working on Michael Dell's (much
>> less) crazy but no less extravagant house up there.
>>
>> Chris
>> 99BBB
>
> Here is a picture and description of the place for anyone still reading
> this completely off-topic thread.... :-)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Manor
>
> Pat

Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
> Wait a minute Pat ....... which 'pot' is he going to throw another
> potato in?
> Chris
> 99BBB


If he has one to **** in, I suppose it will be that one, especially
since my bed for the night will be sleeping bag in the outhouse.....

Pat

"Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote:

> Wait a minute Pat ....... which 'pot' is he going to throw another
> potato in?

Don't ask, don't tell.....


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Hey, I thought Obama put a stop to that! lol

Chris
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"XS11E" > wrote in message
. ..
> "Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote:
>
>> Wait a minute Pat ....... which 'pot' is he going to throw another
>> potato in?
>
> Don't ask, don't tell.....
>
>
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