Everything Must Go Part 3: Clothing

January 13, 2015

...hardest of all. I loved that coat back in the day, but now I only love the memory of loving it. To comfort myself, I try to think of some Young Thing shopping in the thrift store, thrilled to find my rock star coat, as I was thrilled to find it in my day.) On the other hand, it is okay to keep some things simply because they make you feel good when you see them and touch them. KonMari tells the tale of some hideous old t-shirt she’s had since she...

Read…

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

Mr. Homegrown

December 17, 2016

Saturday Linkages

3 Comments

...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...

Read…

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance

Mr. Homegrown

August 1, 2013

Thoughtstylings

3 Comments

...Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. It is the lighting up of the mist by the sun. Man cannot know in any higher sense than this, any more than he can loo...

Read…

It’s official: I’m a Ham

Mr. Homegrown

November 15, 2013

Appropriate Technology

13 Comments

...nks to W6MES, who volunteered his time to teach the class and to the major memory system for helping with all those numbers. It was a lot of fun to review basic math and electronics. So why do this in an age of Skype and cellphones? I find the DIY ethos of ham radio empowering. We are surrounded by electronic devices and it’s good to know a little something about what’s going on “under the hood.” I wish I had discovered amateur radio when I was yo...

Read…

Solar Oven Triumph: Fluffy Egg Strata

Mrs. Homegrown

July 5, 2016

Recipes, Solar, Solar Oven Summer

10 Comments

...nd 40 minute mark, ready to come out. Solavore Sport Strata (based on the Eartheasy Strata) Serves at least 4-6, more if you have other things to eat The main adjustment I made to the Eartheasy recipe was in adding more eggs and milk, because the enamel pots which come with the Sport are pretty big, and I found that the original recipe’s quantities didn’t quite cover the bread. It’s normal to have some bread poking up out of the mix, like glaciers...

Read…