Homegrown Evolution Food Review: Backpacker’s Pantry Huevos Rancheros

October 11, 2006

.... While this product has an impressive shelf life and ease of preparation, making it appropriate for emergency food supplies, we’ve had better freeze dried entrees. Our fellow campers had the same reaction to the visual look of the cooked and re-hydrated product: dog vomit. The taste wasn’t all that bad, but it had the overly salty and questionably seasoned feeling of almost all dehydrated foods. Imagine eating just the seasoning packet from a bow...

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Inside the Internet Archive: A Meat World Tour

Mr. Homegrown

August 23, 2023

Thoughtstylings

...r of the books they currently lend online. Concurrently, a group of record labels have sued to stop the Internet Archive’s efforts to digitize and make available recordings on 78rpm records. Parsing the dialectical relationship between the value of public domain material and the rights of creators and publishers is beyond my pay grade. Let’s just say it’s complicated and made more so by technology and the huge data models gestating in the, perhaps...

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Varroa Mites: No-Treatment is the Best Treatment

Mr. Homegrown

October 25, 2016

Animals, Bees

3 Comments

...) to target varroa. It’s easy to see why Hayes would be interested in RNAi technology. It has the potential to knock out varroa mite without the many problems of current miticides. Critics of RNAi, however, bring up the issue of risk management: the unintended consequences of using a novel technology such as RNAi. If something did go wrong it could go very wrong, what some scientists refer to as an “oops” moment. The ideas in the article, like muc...

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I’ll Need This Someday: Clutter Control for Artists and Creatives

Mr. Homegrown

June 8, 2016

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...re, which benefits Habitat for Humanity. The same principle applies to new technology. I just heard Kevin Kelly discussing his latest book and I really like his advice to only buy technology five minutes before you need it. That way you don’t end up with things you don’t need and you also have the benefit of having the latest version. I’d be remiss if I didn’t address the aesthetic triumphs of those who are expert scavengers, such as our neighbor...

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Book Review: The Machine Stops by E.M. Forester

Mrs. Homegrown

November 12, 2012

Reviews

4 Comments

...is that he did this toe dipping in 1909. In 1909, the telephone was a new technology, and radio in its infancy. That he should be able to extrapolate this strangely accurate dystopia at that time points not only to his powers of observation and imagination, but also, perhaps, to the discomfort I suspect many people were experiencing at that time, as the world rushed into modernity. We don’t hear much about that discomfort, because Progress is our...

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