Weekend Linkages: Sunspots

March 24, 2024

...Unraveling the Mystery of San Francisco 7-Eleven Stores Selling Onigiri With the Mayor’s Face on Them The website of the artist behind the Onigiri prank An app that shows if a book you’re looking at on Amazon is at your local library How to Build a Small Solar Power System Henry VIII’s pastry tent...

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Food Storage Revisited

Mr. Homegrown

November 2, 2018

Domesticus, Tidying up

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.... Food delivery has returned in the form of services such as Instacart and Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods. Unfortunately, many of these new services rely on gig economy serfdom, which has made me uncomfortable about using them, though Instacart was handy when my mom could no longer drive herself to the market. I suspect we’ll see a lot more food delivery in the near future and can see how helpful it is to busy families with young children or eld...

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Weekend Linkages: Floored

Mr. Homegrown

May 23, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...@edburmila) May 17, 2021 City, Suburb, Server Farm: the Urban Geography of Amazon A private bar where you can drink, hug, and ditch masks? Welcome to Risky Business in North Hollywood Crime App Citizen is Driving a Security Car Around L.A. and Won’t Say Why Build your own bamboo dome-like structure with giant grass’s zome building kit Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men? The female architects who fought back Narrative Napalm Malcolm Gladwell...

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Poor Man’s Paninni Press

Mr. Homegrown

February 6, 2015

Bread, Food

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...l decluttering. I have no personal experience with the Lodge paninni press. Do any of you? Is this something I should order, in a late night Amazon binge, the next time Kelly is visiting relatives?...

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Why Architectural Graphics Standards Should Be On Your Bookshelf

Mr. Homegrown

June 1, 2015

Design

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...course. Should you want to build split ring wooden trusses, a greenhouse, or spend an evening pondering the arcana of wood joist connections, it’s got you covered. And, naturally, I want my own fencing piste. A new copy of Architectural Graphics Standards is available but a bit pricey on Amazon. There’s also an abridged and less expensive student edition. If you fish around the nether regions of the interwebs you can find free pdf versions of dubi...

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