Weekend Linkages: Historic Rain

October 24, 2021

...The truth about California’s annual termite swarms Can’t confirm this but some people might be eating monkey chow Man Obsessed With ’90s Lives In Time Capsule And Uses Outdated Technology Way beyond my abilities but this lip syncing project made me laugh How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel Friend of the blog Jenn Berger has an art show up I saw a good cat this weekend Stay safe California friends...

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Saturday Linkages: Soon There’ll Be Thunder

Mr. Homegrown

November 7, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...happy about this idea] The Real Reason Facebook Changed Its Name ‘Wondrous and amazing’: female California condors can reproduce without males Edith Wharton’s Hauntology Want to build some brick projects for your garden? This is a great YouTube channel on brick laying Music break: some trippy music from 1969...

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Weekend Linkages: Hot and Cold

Mr. Homegrown

February 6, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Whale A Magazine From 1997 Is Selling For Thousands of Dollars Online Because of QAnon Tent-safe DIY heaters for unhoused people cost just $7 to build...

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Weekend Linkages: Let’s Get Tetrahedral

Mr. Homegrown

August 6, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9) Dystopian On Trial: Alice Coleman’s Architectural Determinism HGTV Personality Tarek El Moussa Denies He’s Evicting North Hollywood Tenants To Build New Complex Gym shorts and a leotard: subway rider’s bonkers looks divide TikTok Hungry Summer Ghosts...

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Keep a Rye Starter!

Mr. Homegrown

September 29, 2023

Bread, Fermentation, Food

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...of starter on hand that I feed every day. When I want to make bread I do a build overnight and the next day I’ll have the quantity I need to bake a loaf or make pizza dough. This week I switched my starter over to rye using the small amount Caitlin gave us. I’m baking a loaf today and it’s rising like crazy. As to the pizza we made in the class it was probably the best I’ve ever had. It’s a quirky pie: the secret is a dark, almost burnt crust brus...

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