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Saturday Tweets: Bird Eyesight, Making and Marginalia

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...he Petition! https://t.co/dLzwO0MFXk via @Change #bikeLA @lacbc — Colin Bogart (@ColinBogart) August 31, 2017 Right so I was researching bird eyesight and can someone explain why these feel like really obscure memes pic.twitter.com/qXkJg16iCV — max ✨ (@naxxramen) August 27, 2017 The meaning of "premium mediocre" https://t.co/PKuaU2pcVK — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 30, 2017 Beautiful flag by Violet Juno in the last Opposable Thumbs podcast ht...

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Making the Shed Great Yet Again

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Design, Thoughtstylings
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...owing 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 covering. Over the past few years the...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Crickets and Making Coffee

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...2015 Architectural Cast Concrete: Wall Caps, Column Caps, and Fireplace Hearth and Mantel http://t.co/2vkxERYxbq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 14, 2015 Kelly declares that–thanks to global warming–pants are now completely optional. #glassishalffull #donaldducking — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 14, 2015 Seeing stars, again: Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation http://t.co/gZlGOpxjJa — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 14, 2015...

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

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Domesticus, Food, How-to, Solar Oven Summer
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...didn’t get too hot. I put the tray in the oven, closed the lid (no clips, making the heating is less efficient on purpose) and waited about 10-15 minutes. The temp would quickly rise above 150F and the wax would dissolve, then I’d take it out before it got any hotter. Fast and easy! Again, the reasons you want to keep the temps low is because 1) you might get discolored wax if you let it bake for too long above 185F and 2) in the very unlikely ev...

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