Saturday Linkages: Don’t seek the truth – just drop your opinions

October 20, 2012

...Rfl Zen saying: Don’t seek the truth – just drop your opinions. Health and Fitness Fencing may help improve some cognitive functions in older people – Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/la-heb-fencing-cogitive-improvement-20111230,0,1166016.story … Gardening Garden planter turns out to be Roman antique: http://boingboing.net/2012/10/12/garden-planter-turns-out-to-be.html … Best Reporting on the Space Shuttle Tree Debacle Science Center Given...

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Help Me Fix My Runner’s Knee

Mr. Homegrown

January 9, 2013

Fitness

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...l and I think participation in one is a valuable part of the homesteader’s fitness toolkit. As least during this encounter with knee pain I have better doctors than I did the last time–a few years ago the diagnosis was arthritis (incorrect as it turns out) and the treatment consisted of a bottle of ibuprofen. Right now the orthopedist has asked me to: take it easy for six weeks (gonna be hard but I’ll do it) perform quad strengthening exercises wi...

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Saturday Linkages: I’m tired of doom, let’s garden and make things . . .

Mr. Homegrown

June 1, 2013

Saturday Linkages

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...lita’s Little Free Library http://www.stereotank.com/Little-Free-Library … Fitness Is It Better to Walk or Run? http://ow.ly/lyt12 Activate Demand Home Depot, Lowe’s stop selling bee-killing poisons. Click to take action: http://bit.ly/13mU9GQ Help the EFF save podcasting from a patent troll: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/30/help-the-eff-save-podcasting-f.html … Disaster porn and elite panic: the militarized lie of savage disaster aftermath: http:...

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Saturday Linkages: Sidewalk Koi, Papercrete, Jaywalking and How to Grow Fresh Air

Mr. Homegrown

August 3, 2013

Saturday Linkages

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...ng http://www.naturalbuildingblog.com/do-it-yourself-pole-barn-building/ … Fitness Healthy Design: 3 Core Engaging Chairs http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/three-unusual-ergonomic-task-chairs-191874 … Gardening How to Grow Fresh Air http://www.naturalbuildingblog.com/how-to-grow-fresh-air/ … Secret Garden of Survival – How to Grow a Camouflaged Food Forest http://www.naturalbuildingblog.com/secret-garden-of-survival-how-to-grow-a-camouflaged-food-fo...

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The Other Kind of Fencing

Mr. Homegrown

June 6, 2014

Fitness

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...s but I’ve got it under control. The experience highlighted a problem with fitness culture these days: it tends to emphasize weight loss and body building. Not that there’s anything wrong with either of those goals, but I think exercise is best thought of as something that improves mobility and quality of life. Extreme fencing. Barriers Of all the crazy activities Kelly and I have taken up, Fencing is the one with the steepest learning curve. It c...

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