Saturday Linkages: Get Off the Internet and Embroider!

November 2, 2019

...o learn embroidery? Natalie Richards shows you the stitches on YouTube. Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery All Right Already By now, we know where Facebook’s allegiances lie Meat in the Machine Winds of change: the sailing ships cleaning up sea transport Silicon Valley Leaders Sit Down With Wildfire At Investment Meeting After Being Impressed By Its Rapid Expansion Belgian TV show takes politicians on a bike ride – then confr...

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Everything Must Go Part II: Books

Mr. Homegrown

January 12, 2015

Cleaning, Domesticus, Tidying up

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...of I came to much the same conclusion as Nassim Taleb does in this tweet: Cleaning my library facing Lindy effect. Lit, philosophy & mathematics don’t age/ age slowly. Nonfiction, “science” books died.~All of them. — Nassim NicholنTaleb (@nntaleb) January 5, 2015 If time passes and a book get more relevant it’s likely to stay relevant (this is the Lindy effect Taleb is referring to). Just like Taleb, the books on philosophy and theology stayed in...

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Essential System #5 – First Aid Kit

Mr. Homegrown

August 31, 2006

Preparedness

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...t of other things Any prescription medications that you take Syringe – for cleaning out wounds – you can also improvise this with a water bottle Antibiotic cream If you already have a first aid kit you can pimp it out with a few of these items. We can’t emphasize enough the importance of large bandage material such as the sanitary napkins. One acquaintance of ours who was unlucky enough to have been severely cut by falling glass in the Northridge...

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Introducing the People Washer

Mr. Homegrown

November 6, 2014

Water and Power

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...he water intake automatically shuts off and the hot water begins to whirl, cleaning the body even more thoroughly. While the water whirls, small rubber balls float around in the water, massage the skin, and relax the muscles. After seven minutes of washing and rubber-ball massage, the bath water drains from the sphere and the body is reshowered for two minutes. The shower and the ultrasonic waves cease and the water is drained out. Finally there i...

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Picture Sundays: Root Simple Compound Caught On Google Street View

Mr. Homegrown

September 14, 2014

Picture Sundays

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...t Google Street View, back in April, caught me in the act of contemplating cleaning the garage. You can tell from my posture that I’m in the intellectual rather than the physical stage of garage sorting. In the front yard the fruit trees have leafed out, clarkia is blooming in the sparse parkway, the nopal is loaded with immature fruit and the roses have yet to climb the entrance arbor. If only I had a Root Simple banner and and an alpaca to take...

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