Saturday Tweets: Smoke Bomb Cocktails, Philosophy, and the “Napparatus”

June 4, 2016

...se-plants https://t.co/u2kAAAk6Iy — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 31, 2016 self-driving cars will piss off car occupants. when pedestrians realize they can stop a car with their body and not be killed, it’s all over — Eric Budd (@ericmbudd) May 30, 2016 Whenever I hear talk about a #WarOnCars I’ll think of this spot where cars won. 4 feet for us, 70 feet for cars pic.twitter.com/WnreBDoob7 — Bill Schultheiss (@schlthss) May 30, 2016 Rabbit blowing...

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A Lecture on the Connection Between Cats and Grain

Mr. Homegrown

May 24, 2016

Animals, Cats, Events

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...destination is a world in which we spend all our hours spinning around in self driving cars while watching, on our virtual reality glasses, an endlessly looped 3D version of Nyan Cat. Islam tells a much more succinct and, I think, more accurate version of cat domestication. An Islamic legend holds that Noah’s ark was overrun with mice and rats. God instructed Noah to pet the nostril of a lion, whereupon the lion sneezed out two house cats. Noah’s...

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Weekend Links: We’ve Gone Crazy!

Mr. Homegrown

April 23, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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...New short film by photographer Gerco de Ruijter explores “grid correction” roads: https://t.co/T0f42YDiVq pic.twitter.com/RhAneDgSXj — Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) April 18, 2016 Self-driving cars might be “a coming congestion disaster”: https://t.co/LrJUpmLOFz — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 18, 2016...

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Organize Those Drip Irrigation Parts!

Mr. Homegrown

March 19, 2016

Gardening, Water and Power, Water Conservation

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...n ordered toolbox full of irrigation parts. Now this could be one of those self-aggrandizing homesteady posts were it not for the fact that it took me fifteen years to organize my drip irrigation parts. I spent those previous years fishing for parts in a partially collapsed cardboard box. Take my advice: if you own a house, are an avid gardener and use some kind of timed irrigation, thou shalt organize all those parts. Maintaining an irrigation sy...

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Coffee Grounds in the Garden

Mr. Homegrown

April 25, 2016

Composting, Gardening, Pests, Vegetable Gardening, Vermiculture

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...ctions and feed earthworms. Authored by Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott, Extension Urban Horticulturist and Associate Professor, this peer-reviewed pamphlet also provides a set of suggestions for using coffee grounds in the garden: Coffee grounds should be composted before used as a soil amendment but can be used fresh as a mulch. Fresh grounds are phytotoxic, so keep them away from direct contact with roots. Coffee grounds will not necessarily make your...

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