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The Call to Create: Marguerite Knutzen 1925-2017

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Thoughtstylings
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...loving, kind and patient mom. To her I owe my life’s calling: the joys of making, doing and teaching. My mom taught junior high art, crafts and ceramics before I was born. She took a break to raise me and then went back to teaching as an elementary school aide. Teaching at the junior high level is no easy task. Schools dump students with academic and home problems into the arts classes just to keep them busy. My mom’s call to be a teacher wasn’t...

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Why You Should Own an Impact Driver

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Tools
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...gift myself an impact driver sooner? A cousin to those “rat-tat-tat” noise-making impact wrenches found at the auto garage, an impact driver is mostly for driving home screws (or a rough hole in recalcitrant wood). An impact driver works like a normal drill up until the point it starts to encounter resistance. At that point an anvil engages to increase torque. It’s not to be confused with a hammer drill, used for drilling holes in concrete and mas...

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Saturday Linkages: Quitting Email, Muskiness and the RRR

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Saturday Linkages
...2017 In the clearing: https://t.co/odIWq8jbaB — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 16, 2017 The Best Seed Company in the World | Garden Rant https://t.co/MdWftVbuXQ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 16, 2017 How @Uber and @lyft are making traffic worse: https://t.co/AfKQVU3XvJ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 12, 2017 New insights into the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge & North American Winter Dipole https://t.co/O2Lnj9q90n — Root Simple (@ro...

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We Grew a Cocktail Avocado!

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Fruit Trees, Gardening
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This morning Kelly alerted me to the latest avocado news making its way around the internet tubes. Apparently a chain of grocery stores in Great Britain, worried about the lack of knife skills in our young folks (ugh), is marketing a seedless “cocktail” avocado. What is a cocktail avocado? Some deep Googling revealed that they aren’t some new variety, just un- or under pollinated Fuerte avocado. Since we have a Fuerte tree in our backyard, I deci...

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Restoring the Original Black Box: Our Western Electric 534A Subset

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Appropriate Technology, Thoughtstylings
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...posted a video of the interior of our ringer box in action. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what it sounded like when the phone rang in 1920s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2VHhmKTFsQ And, yes, I will be making this available as a ringtone in about a week. Though, I’ll note, you probably won’t be able to fix your iPhone 96 years in the future. Does your old house still have a ringer box?...

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