# I figured it out **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 23, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611 "2012-03-23T16:17:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/1 "2012-03-23T16:17:02Z")
I had to move one shipping container to another, newer one. I pretty well had to as I was having a bad reaction to mold or something in the older one. The compound has brand-new containers, and before I moved in, I checked to make sure my internet would work well from the new location. It all checked out. I moved in. My, it rained last week. Poured like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Couple of three days at least. Then my internet went out. I went to the phone company to complain. I moved my modem thing around the room. Then I figure out I could connect when my door was open. OK, not perfect but OK. I have one of those indoor/outdoor thermometers. My is the cheap kind, it has a cord that runs to the sensor out the window. Well, oddly both temperatures were the same. Oh, look, someone moved the sensor inside. I wonder why. A new screen in my new window, how nice. And what sort of screen? You guessed it, a metal one that makes reception in the container impossible. It took me most of a week, but I figured it out. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/2 "2012-03-23T16:32:58Z")
You live in a shipping container? As for the wireless - yeah, big metal box with a metal screen would make a pretty good Faraday cage. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/3 "2012-03-23T16:49:54Z")
I live in HALF a shipping container. No way I am going to pay to rent the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Yaxche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8dc957/32.png) [@Yaxche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yaxche)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/4 "2012-03-23T18:28:55Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > I live in HALF a shipping container. No way I am going to pay to rent the whole thing. OK, this may not be the oddest comment to be tossed out nonchalantly on this message board, but it has to be up there… ---
**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/5 "2012-03-23T18:33:12Z")
Ask the guy living in half a shipping container? ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/6 "2012-03-23T19:52:53Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > I live in HALF a shipping container. No way I am going to pay to rent the whole thing. Wait, you have _pay rent_ for it? Damn. I get mine for free, and I’m told I’ll get my own FULL container. Is yours one of the ones where the door is actually cut from the side wall and the real door is just permanently closed? And BTW, folks, all things considered, living in a shipping container is pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/7 "2012-03-23T19:59:00Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > And BTW, folks, all things considered, living in a shipping container is pretty awesome. Until you wake up in some crazy ass port in China. Wait, is that how it works? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/8 "2012-03-23T20:10:55Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > I checked to make sure my internet would work well from the new location. It all checked out. I moved in. I hope your digs in the Metaverse provide you with the space you need, gargoyle. ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/9 "2012-03-23T20:31:41Z")
I’m not sure if this conversation is real or not. Can anyone else hear this? ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/10 "2012-03-23T22:17:47Z")
> [@Crab\_Rangoon](#): > > I’m not sure if this conversation is real or not. Can anyone else hear this? I can if I open the door to my shipping container. Otherwise the metal blocks the sound. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/11 "2012-03-23T22:57:36Z")
> [@Crab\_Rangoon](#): > > I’m not sure if this conversation is real or not. Can anyone else hear this? I read this and laughed, but then I started thinking about it kind of hard, and realized that I’ve said that out loud…a lot. People just tend to say weird or stupid shit to me, and if nobody in my area appears to react, even though they should, I find myself saying that. This is not stupid. Just…odd! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/12 "2012-03-24T02:10:06Z")
I live in a housing unit built out of a 40 foot shipping container. The outside is good old corrugated steel painted white against the sun. A pair of bathrooms face left and right to divide the place into two one-room cabins. I have a window and a real door. The old cargo door is no longer detectable. I have a split a/c which is important here, as we run the a/c a lot. Inside there is some sort of insulation I suppose (not enough to stop the highway noise) and interior steel paneling. I have wall-to-wall carpet and used dormitory style furniture to include a half-sized fridge. All the mod cons. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/13 "2012-03-24T15:36:53Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > I live in a housing unit built out of a 40 foot shipping container. The outside is good old corrugated steel painted white against the sun. A pair of bathrooms face left and right to divide the place into two one-room cabins. I have a window and a real door. The old cargo door is no longer detectable. I have a split a/c which is important here, as we run the a/c a lot. > > Inside there is some sort of insulation I suppose (not enough to stop the highway noise) and interior steel paneling. I have wall-to-wall carpet and used dormitory style furniture to include a half-sized fridge. All the mod cons. So, there’s no chance of being loaded onto a barge in the middle of the night and waking up surrounded by pirates? ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/14 "2012-03-24T18:52:54Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > So, there’s no chance of being loaded onto a barge in the middle of the night and waking up surrounded by pirates? Ain’t that just a damn bummer? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-figured-it-out/616611/15 "2012-03-24T21:58:16Z")
Even here in Seattle there are shipping containers occupied. There are at least two and maybe more food banks that opperate out of them and I also read about a Starbuck’s using two, on on top of the other. It’s one more way of using the recycle circle. “Recycle reuse reduce.”