SolSource Review Part I: Assembly
...!) The SolSource retails for $499.00. It can be purchased at the One Earth Designs site (shipping is free) and also at Amazon. Save...
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Digital Götterdämmerung
...of his book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Amazon, library) is the suggestion to take a one month break from addictive apps, websites and other digital media. Use that time to figure out some life goals. At the end of the month carefully add back the digital tools you find useful. I just started the one month digital fast and, already, I feel like I’m regaining a long lost pre-internet memory of when I used to read...
Make Your Own Landscape Lighting
...nting them with some G4 light sockets and G4 LED bulbs that I picked up on Amazon. It was a simple project to install the socket and seal up the top of these two lamps with some silicon caulk. I hung the lamps in our pomegranate tree and wired them into the system which is set on a timer to turn on at sunset and go off a few hours later. I placed these lights to help illuminate the treacherous and irregular 1920s staircase leading up to the house....
Saturday Linkages: Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind
...orry About Death Cap Mushroooms in California? Video: Furry porch pirate pilfers package from San Pedro pad Writing Tip: Use Zombies to Kill the Passive Voice Prime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City Socialism is as American as apple pie. Yes, really Grow old and be strong...
The Twittering Machine
...account of the glowing screens we’re all yoked to, The Twittering Machine (Amazon, Library), and I want to find the escape hatch in the Spectacle. Seymour notes that we are in an age in which we are all writing more than we ever did, in the form of posts, texts etc. But he asks are we “more being written than writing?” The book leaves me wanting to disappear into my wood shop to commune with a carefully curated set of had tools for the rest of my...