http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/look/look-jasons-weekend-project-with-urban-tree-forge-076215
On the website Apartment Therapy, they're running a buncha photos
about a Pittsburgh bunch called the Urban Tree Forge. their mission
statement: "From Urban Tree Forge's mission statement: Being firm
believers in sustainability, our projects utilize wood from our own
urban forest or recycled from within our community. By utilizing
locally available and sustainable natural resources, we are removing
trees from our landfills, and placing salvaged wood back into a
productive life cycle. This also helps us to protect our state and
national forests by reducing our reliance on them for our urban
projects."
Sounds great. But the photos depict them cutting a nice, big silver
maple log-- a maple log perhaps three feet in diameter-- into big, two
and a half foot CUBES. Solid CUBES. Which will then be shaped, mildly,
into "two solid wood chairs and two massive cube end tables."
"MC" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
>> Keep in mind that anyone who twice in a paragraph uses "utilize" to
>> mean "use" is probably trying to sell you something you neither want
>> nor need.
>
> Yup... If they won't conserve syllables, why should we expect them to
> conserve anything else?
Think of all the CO2 they wouldn't release into the atmosphere if they'd
just shut up!
Puckdropper
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"BrianSiano" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:6034e714-16a0-477a-baf5-907cf7e3e747@s20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
> http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/look/look-jasons-weekend-project-with-urban-tree-forge-076215
>
> On the website Apartment Therapy, they're running a buncha photos
> about a Pittsburgh bunch called the Urban Tree Forge. their mission
> statement: "From Urban Tree Forge's mission statement: Being firm
> believers in sustainability, our projects utilize wood from our own
> urban forest or recycled from within our community. By utilizing
> locally available and sustainable natural resources, we are removing
> trees from our landfills, and placing salvaged wood back into a
> productive life cycle. This also helps us to protect our state and
> national forests by reducing our reliance on them for our urban
> projects."
>
> Sounds great. But the photos depict them cutting a nice, big silver
> maple log-- a maple log perhaps three feet in diameter-- into big, two
> and a half foot CUBES. Solid CUBES. Which will then be shaped, mildly,
> into "two solid wood chairs and two massive cube end tables."
>
>
Whatsa matter?? Don't you recognize AHT??
In article
<6034e714-16a0-477a-baf5-907cf7e3e747@s20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
[email protected] says...
>http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/look/look-jasons-weekend-project-with
-ur
>ban-tree-forge-076215
>
>On the website Apartment Therapy, they're running a buncha photos
>about a Pittsburgh bunch called the Urban Tree Forge. their mission
>statement: "From Urban Tree Forge's mission statement: Being firm
>believers in sustainability, our projects utilize wood from our own
>urban forest or recycled from within our community. By utilizing
>locally available and sustainable natural resources, we are removing
>trees from our landfills, and placing salvaged wood back into a
>productive life cycle. This also helps us to protect our state and
>national forests by reducing our reliance on them for our urban
>projects."
>
>Sounds great. But the photos depict them cutting a nice, big silver
>maple log-- a maple log perhaps three feet in diameter-- into big, two
>and a half foot CUBES. Solid CUBES. Which will then be shaped, mildly,
>into "two solid wood chairs and two massive cube end tables."
Well, it does say, "The massive silver maple used in this particular project
came from Pittsburgh's Allegheny Cemetery. The cemetery removes old and
damaged trees and leaves them in a large pile unused. This log represents a
small fraction of material to be reclaimed in the cemetery..."
--
Dennis
On Feb 10, 5:25=A0pm, Charlie Self <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 10, 4:34=A0pm, BrianSiano <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> >http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/look/look-jasons-weekend-proj...
>
> > On the website Apartment Therapy, they're running a buncha photos
> > about a Pittsburgh bunch called the Urban Tree Forge. their mission
> > statement: "From Urban Tree Forge's mission statement: Being firm
> > believers in sustainability, our projects utilize wood from our own
> > urban forest or recycled from within our community. By utilizing
> > locally available and sustainable natural resources, we are removing
> > trees from our landfills, and placing salvaged wood back into a
> > productive life cycle. This also helps us to protect our state and
> > national forests by reducing our reliance on them for our urban
> > projects."
>
> > Sounds great. But the photos depict them cutting a nice, big silver
> > maple log-- a maple log perhaps three feet in diameter-- into big, two
> > and a half foot CUBES. Solid CUBES. Which will then be shaped, mildly,
> > into "two solid wood chairs and two massive cube end tables."
>
> Keep in mind that anyone who twice in a paragraph uses "utilize" to
> mean "use" is probably trying to sell you something you neither want
> nor need.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o290/Robatoy/StrunkEB.jpg
Andrew Barss wrote:
> MC <[email protected]> wrote:
> :> Keep in mind that anyone who twice in a paragraph uses "utilize" to
> :> mean "use" is probably trying to sell you something you neither want
> :> nor need.
>
> : Yup... If they won't conserve syllables, why should we expect them to conserve anything else?
>
> Yeah, and we all know how scarce syllables are getting nowadays.
Not to mention punctuation. Why,just last week my keyboard ran out of
semicolons. Fortunately I was able to carve some more out of some cherry
scraps I had lying around.
In article <[email protected]>, Puckdropper
<puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> says...
> "MC" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> >> Keep in mind that anyone who twice in a paragraph uses "utilize" to
> >> mean "use" is probably trying to sell you something you neither want
> >> nor need.
> >
> > Yup... If they won't conserve syllables, why should we expect them to
> > conserve anything else?
>
> Think of all the CO2 they wouldn't release into the atmosphere if they'd
> just shut up!
Same amount of cO2. ...just a little cooler.
On Feb 10, 4:34=A0pm, BrianSiano <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/look/look-jasons-weekend-proj...
>
> On the website Apartment Therapy, they're running a buncha photos
> about a Pittsburgh bunch called the Urban Tree Forge. their mission
> statement: "From Urban Tree Forge's mission statement: Being firm
> believers in sustainability, our projects utilize wood from our own
> urban forest or recycled from within our community. By utilizing
> locally available and sustainable natural resources, we are removing
> trees from our landfills, and placing salvaged wood back into a
> productive life cycle. This also helps us to protect our state and
> national forests by reducing our reliance on them for our urban
> projects."
>
> Sounds great. But the photos depict them cutting a nice, big silver
> maple log-- a maple log perhaps three feet in diameter-- into big, two
> and a half foot CUBES. Solid CUBES. Which will then be shaped, mildly,
> into "two solid wood chairs and two massive cube end tables."
Keep in mind that anyone who twice in a paragraph uses "utilize" to
mean "use" is probably trying to sell you something you neither want
nor need.
MC <[email protected]> wrote:
:> Keep in mind that anyone who twice in a paragraph uses "utilize" to
:> mean "use" is probably trying to sell you something you neither want
:> nor need.
: Yup... If they won't conserve syllables, why should we expect them to conserve anything else?
Yeah, and we all know how scarce syllables are getting nowadays.
Andy Barss (who thinks most style guides are written by pompous idiots)
Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:
: http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o290/Robatoy/StrunkEB.jpg
It's largely a waste of paper, and the reader's time.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/theword/2008/09/return_of_the_l.html
http://158.130.17.5/~myl/languagelog/archives/000994.html
http://158.130.17.5/~myl/languagelog/archives/001604.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001803.html
Enjoy!
-- Andy Barss
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My uncle Dave would make the blocks into cowboy hats!
Yep - he turns big stuff and makes wood hats out of 1 chunk of wood.
Martin
BrianSiano wrote:
> http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/look/look-jasons-weekend-project-with-urban-tree-forge-076215
>
> On the website Apartment Therapy, they're running a buncha photos
> about a Pittsburgh bunch called the Urban Tree Forge. their mission
> statement: "From Urban Tree Forge's mission statement: Being firm
> believers in sustainability, our projects utilize wood from our own
> urban forest or recycled from within our community. By utilizing
> locally available and sustainable natural resources, we are removing
> trees from our landfills, and placing salvaged wood back into a
> productive life cycle. This also helps us to protect our state and
> national forests by reducing our reliance on them for our urban
> projects."
>
> Sounds great. But the photos depict them cutting a nice, big silver
> maple log-- a maple log perhaps three feet in diameter-- into big, two
> and a half foot CUBES. Solid CUBES. Which will then be shaped, mildly,
> into "two solid wood chairs and two massive cube end tables."
>
>