Saturday Tweets: One Crazy Week

November 3, 2018

...er.com/ozXQVBakqN — Jared Pechacek (@vandroidhelsing) October 30, 2018 How Lead Ends up in drinking water: https://t.co/pr0hW1Wdll via @cenmag — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 31, 2018 Waking up early won’t change your life—but it’s awesome for capitalism https://t.co/2OqJFVmtqC via @quartzatwork — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 30, 2018 https://t.co/Wh3tiVA2ng | Hundreds of teeth found in Downtown Valdosta wall — Root Simple (@rootsimple) O...

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Solve Your Measurement Problems with a Construction Calculator

Mr. Homegrown

May 16, 2018

Design

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...ectrical work add-ons but the free version is good enough for most simple, homesteady projects. In addition to handling those pesky fractions, the basic version also does metric conversion. It will also help you calculate your sheet good needs. I added the carpentry module since I’ve found myself doing a lot of incompetent carpentry these past few months. I’m old enough to remember the failed attempt to convert the U.S. to the metric system in the...

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Saturday Tweets: Mostly Bikes

Mr. Homegrown

February 24, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...ps://t.co/JIaxK2yETq — Modern Farmer (@ModFarm) February 24, 2018 Dramatas Urbanae: Photographer’s 10-Year Study of a Single Public Bench | Urbanist – https://t.co/WRsZZe0Xs1 — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) February 23, 2018 Another one for the hexagon series. Many arms king with casual footwear. pic.twitter.com/XD6M6OlltK — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) February 21, 2018 "Science and reason is the best we have" is a statement that is both pseud...

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Three Important Points to Remember When “Kondo-ing”

Mr. Homegrown

July 6, 2017

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...ms, it will be impossible to keep them organized, and this will inevitably lead to a relapse.” This is exactly what I’m faced with at my mom’s house: boxes of neatly filed away stuff that was never used and that occasionally spilled out during her lifetime. These possessions became a burden, a time-sucking sorting task that claimed many hours of the last years of my mom’s life. This has sparked a, perhaps, overly emotional reaction to quickly get...

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A Week Later

Mrs. Homegrown

November 17, 2016

Thoughtstylings

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...can come together around common ground. Also, partisan discussions online lead immediately to unproductive spates of bickering and trolling. But this time, it’s different. This time, silence seems the greater crime. This is a hard post to write. I keep ranting, then deleting. Okay. New plan. Let me tell you a story. Last Friday a small group of people from my church, St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, stood outside the Islamic Center of Southern Cal...

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