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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Quantum mechanics

If a tree falls in the forest and there's no-one there to observe it, is it real? George Berkeley (March 12 1685 to January 14 1753) said "Esse est percipi" ("to be is to be perceived") which fits nicely with quantum mechanics, where

Misc

It's Hubby's birthday, go say hello! Kudos to whomever arranged the nice sunny day for him, big help. I love you Hubby! Armwarmer #2 was started in Tuesday and suffered its first rip back in the excellent company of Fluid Pudding, Squeaky Weasel, and Poppy Mom,

Music

* Anna Nalick - Breathe (2am) * Rob Thomas - Lonely No More * Rachel Farris - Not The Girl * The Killers - Mr Brightside * Evanescence - Further Away

Milestone

And they're all mine.

Redo #6

This is the first completed Hurry Up Spring Armwarmer. I haven't sewn in the ends yet, and it's hard to take a decent photo of your right hand. It's fuzzy, but the colours are more or less right. The observant may notice the purple

Blog content ownership

Hubby brought home this Information Week article for me to read: The Weblog Question. When Mark Jen started working for Google Inc. earlier this month, one of the first things he did was create a Weblog where he discussed, among other things, his impressions of a Google sales meeting. It

Armwarmers and cat

I promised Fluid Pudding a picture of the Hurry Up Spring Armwarmers, so here they are in their unfinished glory: That little stub on the side is the embryonic thumb. I'm not done with the main part of the gauntlet (sounds better to me than armwarmer or topless

In process

Margene says "it's the process." I agree, but my process lately seems to involve messing something up and figuring out how to fix it more than just knitting the thing. Take the Stitch n Bitch Nation project Hurry Up Spring Armwarmers. I really like the pattern,

Celebrate!

I have my car back! It spend a week in the body shop getting the passenger side tended to (ripped off, hammered out, repainted, and some parts replaced) after a minor prang. I missed it terribly. It's my baby car, the first new car we ever bought, the

Going underground

Underground search for 'God particle' One hundred metres below Geneva's western suburbs is a dimly lit tunnel that runs in a perfect circle for 27km (17 miles). The tunnel belongs to Cern, the European Centre for Nuclear Research. Though currently empty, over the next two years

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