Saturday Tweets: Post-Earth Day

April 27, 2019

...tment? https://t.co/WqAUMObsfJ — Rabi Abonour (@rabonour) April 26, 2019 A picture of LA if all the world’s ice caps melt away. pic.twitter.com/dNKFD70JNu — Scott Carney (@sgcarney) April 25, 2019 No One Is Prepared to Come to Grips With Unreality https://t.co/Do5GyefOuz via @Hmm_Daily — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 26, 2019 Why Did a YouTube Bot Make an Unwatched Video of Our Blog Post? https://t.co/CksSPMd9NO via @Hmm_Daily — Root Simple (@ro...

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John Ruskin On Perfection and the Nature of the Gothic

Mr. Homegrown

July 31, 2018

Design

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...the end of his vain effort being merely that he would take ten years to a picture and leave it unfinished. And therefore, if we are to have great men working at all, or less men doing their best, the work will be imperfect, however beautiful. Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way. The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body,...

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An Opening

Mr. Homegrown

May 11, 2018

Design

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...red, were barely attached to the studs): During: And after: I don’t have a picture, but I removed the studs after confirming that the old header was adequate (it’s not a load bearing wall). The next step will be to fix the plaster (I’m hiring this out). When the plasterers are done I’ll frame the opening with molding I’ll fabricate in my woodshop to match the doorways in the rest of the house. A tip of the hat to the folks who do this dirty and da...

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Spider Bite!

Mr. Homegrown

December 4, 2017

Pests

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My sincerest apologies for beginning your week with a picture of two festering arachnid bites, but that’s what Mondays are for. These particular arachnid bites belong to UCSD alumni pal Professor Nic, who is visiting us from Canada, the greatest of nations. The bites sent him to the very same Kaiser emergency room that saved Kelly’s life last year. Unfortunately, modern medicine lacks any kind of test that would reveal the scientific name of the...

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113 Open Floor Plans and Dog Sports

Mr. Homegrown

November 29, 2017

Animals, Design, Podcasts

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...floor plans and modern materials and Kelly shares her favorite dog sports (picture above is of our Saluki Ivan in front of a neighbor’s non-open floor plan house). During the podcast we refer to our open floor plan fire safety rant, “Your Open Floor Plan is a Death Trap,” as well as Shigeru Bans’ wall-less house. Then we get to chatting about dog sports including canine nose work, agility, lure coursing, obedience and barn hunting. If you’d like t...

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