A Better Garage Organizational System

...century. You can still pick some up at almost every lumber yard or big box store here in the U.S. But here’s the thing. It sucks. Even with the little plastic doodads that are supposed to keep the metal hooks from falling out, in my experience, half the time you you go to retrieve a tool off the wall the damn metal pegs fall out. This past week, inspired by an article in Fine Woodworking by Jason Stephens, I decided to put all my furniture buildin...

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Los Angeles: A New Beginning

...ed off the road and ground to a halt along side of a mini mall convenience store at the corner of Temple and Alvarado. Who knew that the limo’s algorithms favored raccoons over human passengers? Three hours later an autonomous ambulance pulled up. “I’m Siri the paramedic,” said a disembodied voice emanating from a speaker next to a dirty and stained touch screen. “Are you okay?” “Ugh. I think so,” said the mayor. “But I can’t see.” “An Uber is bei...

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Saturday Tweets: A Flying Shame

...il 15, assuming I sell 25 books in advance. If you want to support LastBookstoreinLA, get Team Human through this link. You can pick up the book at the store whenever you like. https://t.co/cnVU2esXZ4 — douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) February 22, 2019 Swedish 'flying-shame' movement, led by sports personality, now with 30,000 followers, 100% rise in train bookings on some routes, 3% drop in flight bookings: https://t.co/RUyCTARdHA — StopFlyi...

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Garden Update Part II: The Good the Bad and a Lot of Ugly

...of rain concentrated in February and March and it’s a whole lot easier to store it in the earth than to try to capture it in a tiny barrel. Said pipe awkwardly crosses a path, however, something our landscape professional Laramee Haynes will address. The pipe terminates in a slightly sunken area that was the quarry for our adobe oven. This is where the rain garden will go. Right now it’s a nasturtium farm. Nasturtium is what happens in our yard i...

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128 Flipping the Future of Architecture

...like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Closing theme music by Dr. Frankenstein. A downloadable version of this podcast is here....

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