Holiday Weekend Linkages: Full Disclosure

July 5, 2021

Via @AmbJohnBoIton. A Nation Conceived in Liberty Confronts Its Queasiness With the “MILF Mobile” Car problems How the Twitter tide of plastic lost at sea has come to define our age Welcome to dystopia: getting fired from your job as an Amazon worker by an app Cities’ plea to Biden: Help us lower speed limits 135 questions for those who shape and those who (sometimes) occupy New York City’s extreme upper skyline Moldy Slides: Romantic Landscapes...

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Weekend Linkages: Billionaires Gone Wild

Mr. Homegrown

July 11, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Via @AmbJohnBoIton. The Billionaire Space Race Is a Tragically Wasteful Ego Contest Elon Musk’s Plan to Dig Car Tunnels Under Miami Is Filled With Holes Giving the Sickness a Name: Walker Percy & acedia Stripped Down: How Hollywood’s Favorite Pole-Dancing Studio Came Undone...

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Weekend Linkages: Walking the Chicken Backwards

Mr. Homegrown

June 6, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards A thread on the horrors of parking Why brick walls collapse 10 exercise myths ‘One of the worst jobs I ever had’: former Citizen employees on working for the crime app Marx the journalist...

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Making the Shed Great Yet Again

Mr. Homegrown

February 17, 2020

Design, Thoughtstylings

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Here’s a picture from May of 1999 showing our late doberman Spike guarding me while I worked on our then 90 now 100 year old shed. Guess what I’m doing over 20 years later? Working on the same shed. Me in 1999. In 2020 I need glasses. The shed has gone through two previous improvement battles starting with shoving a foundation under it, electrification and strengthening the floor followed by a somewhat misguided attempt at insulation and ceiling...

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Waxed Cloth Food Wrap (Made in a solar oven for bonus self-righteousness points)

Mrs. Homegrown

June 2, 2016

Domesticus, Food, How-to, Solar Oven Summer

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...tions. The oven floor is wide but narrow, so I can’t make wraps bigger than 11 inches square. The floor is actually only 9 1/2 inches deep. By wedging the cat food box higher in the oven, off the floor, I was able to fudge things enough to make an 11 inch waxed cloth, but that’s the limit. I may be able to fold a cloth in half for coating, perhaps layering the wax between the two halves. This is something I’ll play with if I decide to make more. W...

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