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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." |
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"BrianSiano" wrote in message ... http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chic...e-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?? |
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On Feb 10, 4:34*pm, BrianSiano wrote:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chic...s-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. |
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On Feb 10, 5:25*pm, Charlie Self wrote:
On Feb 10, 4:34*pm, BrianSiano wrote: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chic...s-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/o...y/StrunkEB.jpg |
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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/chic...e-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." |
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"MC" wrote in
: 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 -- On Usenet, no one can hear you laugh. That's a good thing, though, as some writers are incorrigible. To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm |
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MC 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) |
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: http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...y/StrunkEB.jpg It's largely a waste of paper, and the reader's time. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/id..._of_the_l.html http://158.130.17.5/~myl/languagelog...es/000994.html http://158.130.17.5/~myl/languagelog...es/001604.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/001803.html Enjoy! -- Andy Barss |
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Andrew Barss wrote:
MC 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. |
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puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com says... "MC" wrote in : 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. |
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