Is Ham Radio Useful?

March 31, 2014

...e from the contest around 9 pm and as I began to make dinner the windows started rattling and the house began to roll. It was an earthquake. The cats panicked and ran under the couch. Since Ham radio was on my mind I instinctively grabbed my handheld radio and immediately heard the voices of other Hams discussing the earthquake. It was then that I realized how useful amateur radio could be. Not only did I get instant information about the earthqua...

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Out Of The In Box

Mr. Homegrown

November 20, 2009

Design

6 Comments

...ew with Isaacs recently: After I complained about hippie aesthetics in a previous post, an astute reader countered that hippies are the only people who have done grassroots building in recent memory. Good point. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that, during the “great recession”, we’re revisiting books such as this one rather than heading to Ikea....

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Saturday Tweets: Mid-Century Cookies, Harbor Freight Chainsaws and Epistemology!

Mr. Homegrown

December 17, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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...IH — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 17, 2016 30 Beautiful Firewood Log Arts https://t.co/RbREEuCusY — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 17, 2016 Top 10 cats in literature https://t.co/AIdIUweE8I #Caturday — St. Margarets Sounds (@SM_Sounds) December 7, 2016 Podcast interview with memory champion and Memrise founder Ed Cooke https://t.co/Ov55rpweTG — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 16, 2016 Podcasting’s positivism problem https://t.co/vYyGh...

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A Week Later

Mrs. Homegrown

November 17, 2016

Thoughtstylings

22 Comments

...rizontal gesture. The sacred travels in a straight, horizontal line from heart to heart, from eye to eye. It is always with us. It binds us all together. Peace to you all. *** n.b. I realize I should note that St. John’s did not descend on the Islamic Center out of the blue. We already have a good relationship with them, due in no small part to the efforts of the marvelous Guibord Center to promote interfaith friendship and understanding. If you l...

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When It Rains in LA

Mr. Homegrown

September 22, 2015

Thoughtstylings, Videos

10 Comments

...t live in Los Angeles. It reminds me of a junior high memory. I went to one of those schools built in the 1950s with a broad bank of windows on the side of each classroom. During an English class it started to rain. The entire class spontaneously got up and ran to the window. The teacher, a transplant from New England was, at first, confused and then started laughing at us....

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