Music
Bowling for Soup "1985"
The Killers "Somebody told me"
Ingram Hill "Will I ever make it home"
Howie Day "Collide"
Gavin Degraw "I don't want to be"
Green Day "Boulevard of broken dreams"
If I could
Alison Hawke
Mini Mac
Fresh off the press, a Mac Mini for $499. A Mac people have a hope of affording without mortgaging the cat, one you can use with your existing monitor and peripherals, one that looks oddly like a biscuit tin or a toaster, but way cooler and much better in the
Quick coaster pattern
Materials:
One reference coaster
Size 7 needles (Or larger, I knit really tightly)
1 ball of Lily Sugar n Cream
Cast on 21 stitches. Work four rows in knit 3 purl 3 rib. Work four rows in purl 3 knit 3 rib. Continue until size matches the reference coaster. Cast
Ouch!
I'm sat on the floor in front of the coffee table, peaceably eating my chicken curry. Behind me, Quantum the cat is sleeping on the futon. Suddenly it feels like I've been whacked on the head by the phone directory! My neck burns, my eyes water.
UK Blogs to read
Found two nifty blogs linked from a BBC article about blogging. The article starts with Queen of the Sky, a blogger fired when her employer spotted a picture it didn't like on her blog. Random Acts of Reality is a blog written by "an E.M.T
Commodore rides again?
Commodore finds new lease of life.
The once-famous Commodore computer brand could be resurrected after being bought by a US-based digital music distributor. New owner Yeahronimo Media Ventures has not ruled out the possibility of a new breed of Commodore computers. It also plans to develop a "worldwide entertainment
Rounding up the year
The Tsunami blog has links to sites you can donate to.
On the home front, the basement has been painted a happy shade of pale yellow, as opposed to the dingy white it used to be. Finished the second coat today, and it's a huge improvement. The Morehouse
Toxic green!
This is my favourite Christmas gift from Hubby: The Morehouse Farm Snake Scarf kit:
Every other project is temporarily on hold while I knit this scarf. Aside from the gorgeous variegated toxic green colour, I get to wear the unwound skein like a big necklace while I'm working.
Merry Christmas!
The house is firmly undecorated, apart from the piece of ribbon the cats nabbed from my homegroup gift swap present. There is no tinsel, no tree, and yet the sound of Christmas carols is in the air. Hubby's preaching on Boxing Day (26th December) at an old people&
Pronunciation woes
I need help. Knitters, how do you pronounce these yarn names?
Noro Kureyon
Written suspiciously like it should be pronounced "crayon" to me, is this correct? I'm planning to get my first Kureyon in a couple of weeks. Is it nice to wear?
Koigu
Koy-goo? Kwe-goo?