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Empty Your Attic!

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Domesticus, Tidying up
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...didn’t succumb to hantavirus. I take great, smug comfort in sleeping at night underneath an empty attic. And should the central heat or vents need to be serviced they are now easy to access. My only regret is that I did not take a before picture to better enhance my bragging rights. A note to the locals: if you need to donate stuff please consider my favorite thrift store, Berda Paradise, which benefits the Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic. Berda Para...

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Wake Up and Fight

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Thoughtstylings
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...nnocuous New Years post. In the dream he went on about how putting up that picture of a pupusa just wasn’t “serious.” This is, of course, a silly anxiety dream. There’s no way this person would ever have complained about any of my posts let alone that one. But this dream crystalized two writing fears of mine: offending people and going off-topic. These fears lead to writer’s block and timid writing. They can also cause you to lose contact with the...

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Root Simple’s New CritterCam

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Animals
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...d flash and a motion detector. If something moves in front of the camera a picture or video is taken. It also stamps the time and records temperature and moon phase. [See update at the end of this post–this is probably the wrong camera for the application I intend. Thanks Max!] My plan is to use it for some urban, backyard citizen science. Specifically I want to figure out a few things: What mammals are visiting the backyard? What paths do they ta...

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What Kind of Wall Anchor Should I Use?

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Design
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...thing just plain fall of the wall. By all means, if you can, get thee some picture rail. But, if that’s not an option, take a look at Rodriguez’s article for all your wall anchor needs, whatever kind of wall you’re dealing with. I’d like to highlight two of the suggested anchors in that Fine Woodworking article for those of us in the lath and plaster tribe. One I’ve already blogged about, is the pull toggle pictured above. It’s not perfect as some...

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Using the Google Search App for Plant Identification

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Gardening
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...e’s camera. It seems to work both with long distance shots, for instance a picture of an entire mature tree, or closeups of leaves. There are other plant identification apps out there that I have tested over the years but none have worked as well as Google’s search app. Google is sitting on way more data than any small-time app maker. Which leads to my disclaimer . . . While this search ability is amazing, I find Google creepy. Why? Let me list ju...

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