He bought plain white shelves at Home Depot and installed them himself.
More than 7,000 cars and trucks were parked bumper to bumper on the plain white shelves that Mr. Kaufman had bought at Home Depot and assembled himself, wall to wall and floor to ceiling, in the four-level annex to his modest country home in western Massachusetts.
He looked professorial and to-the-point, much like his office décor, if you could call it that -- a sparse collection of psychology textbooks and self-help resources littering some plain wooden shelves.
— As a relentless drought bakes prairie soil to dust and dries up streams across the country, ranchers struggling to feed their cattle are unloading them by the thousands, a wrenching decision likely to ripple from the Plains to supermarket shelves over the next year.
Foraminiferal facies trends are outlined in a new sequence stratigraphic model embracing depositional conditions from alluvial plain to offshore shelf settings.
The greater parts of the study are located in the stable shelf (Mesopotamian plain) and only a small part extends over the unstable shelf close to the Iraqi Iranian border (folded zone).
Ultimately, as he becomes addicted to the book, the narrator sees madness in his future, so he wisely takes the tome and hides it in plain sight: on the shelves of the National Library.
"It just always sat it in a plain box on a shelf in his office, and on the outside it said, 'Amelia Earhart, Burbank Airport, 1937,'" Bresnik told the Associated Press.
Behind the red-white-and-green awnings of the Mexican grocers that are supplanting the yellow and red of the classic New York bodega, alongside the slick-looking Mexican imports like Boing soda and barbeque-flavored pork rinds, there are plainer packages on the shelves with fresh offerings produced by entrepreneurs who once worked in local factories and restaurants.
IBM has been developing Watson, an AI that runs on 10 plain ol', off-the-shelf Power 750 servers (running Linux!), for past four years.
