Saturday Tweets: Muting, RIP Hygge and an Owl

January 6, 2018

...iX — Luciano Giubbilei (@L_Giubbilei) January 1, 2018 New Opposable Thumbs podcast! This episode is really just about saying Happy New Year! so we have no guest or challenge. We talk about the hard work of creativity and the mirage of success… and buying deodorant. https://t.co/flwT1vr0nC — Rob Ray (@robdeadtech) January 2, 2018 RIP Hygge 2016-2017 https://t.co/AFUfQx0pu1 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 2, 2018 No-one paints owls like Hieronym...

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Practical, Positive and Peaceable

Mr. Homegrown

January 3, 2018

Podcasts, Thoughtstylings

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...[Editors note 2022: I’ve come to see Eisenstein’s thinking as deeply flawed listen to this podcast for what I agree are many of the problems with his work. I also have come to see the problems with my own posts here. Sometimes you have to fight. Sometimes you have to be cranky. To not fight or be cranky in the face of death and injustice is an unethical political stance.]...

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The World’s Most Beautiful Font?

Mr. Homegrown

September 27, 2017

Design

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The Futility Closet podcast had an interesting episode a few weeks back that told the story of the creation of what many consider to be the most beautiful font ever designed: Doves type. In 1913 the type’s creator, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, threw the typeface into the Thames rather than let it fall into the hands of his unscrupulous business partner. Designer Robert Green spent years attempting to recreate the font. Unsatisfied with the resu...

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National Heirloom Exposition!

Mr. Homegrown

September 4, 2017

Events

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...Blog posting will be lighter than usual around the Root Simple compound this week as I’ll be at the National Heirloom Exposition in Santa Rosa, California. I’ll be collecting stories for the blog and podcast. If you’re planning on coming to the expo drop me a line at rootsimple@gmail.com or @rootsimple on Twitter–I’d love to meet you! Save...

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From the Archives: That Time Kelly Accidentally Ate Hemlock

Mr. Homegrown

July 18, 2016

Food, Foraging

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...thank you random number generator for the Jungian synchronicity: our last podcast is an interview with Pascal. As Kelly notes in her blog post, Hemlock is in the Apiaceae (carrot family). Novice foragers would be wise to avoid this family entirely. That said, Pascal tells a story of running into a group of older Armenian woman gathering hemlock. When he questioned them they explained that they boil the hemlock and change out the water multiple ti...

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