Going to the Spin-In
Myer's House is having a Spin-In on Saturday 11th October from 11am to 3pm! I'll be there with my Louet S10 wheel and probably a spindle too. I'll probably be working on some Cormo fibre.
If you've never spun and are
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2008 Ig Nobel prizes
The 2008 Ig Nobel prizes are out! I have experimental proof of the physics prize with my iPod headphone cable. There's a summary in the BBC News, and here are the winners:
Nutrition
Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK,
Fratello
I'd ordered the Fratello kit from Yarnissima on Sept 24th, thinking it would take a while to get here from the Netherlands. It turned up on October 3rd, a mere nine days later, and packed with goodies:
It comes with a skein of coveted Wollmeise yarn in a
NaNoWriMo planning
It's October now. My novel idea has more shape, my good guy has a face, and a sidekick, and a couple of minor quests to pull off before she faces the bad guy. I have a way to tell a bunch of back story and experiment with writing
Aquarium Day
The next day in Chicago was Aquarium day. We took the blue line into the centre of town from the airport. At least, we tried, there was a section of line closed so everyone was dumped off the train and onto shuttle buses to reach the next train. After some
Visiting The Fold
Friday morning we drove out to The Fold, about an hour from our hotel, going from city, to suburb, to country. It was a nice sunny day and we were driving past cornfields and farms, and houses. We almost drove straight past The Fold because it looked like just another
It's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses
We're going to Chicago for a long weekend. Plans are to visit the Field Museum and see Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and visit the Shedd Aquarium.
Hubby is also taking me to visit The Fold, I'm excited! I have budget to spend from my failed attempt
Addiction, thy name is Lego
Hello, my name is Ali and I'm addicted to the Lego Star Wars game on the XBox 360. The first four levels are complete and I have everyone on the Millennium Falcon en route to the wreckage of Alderaan. I'm not solving all the puzzles and
LHC damaged
BBC News: Hadron Collider halted for months.
The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) says. Part of the giant physics experiment was turned off for the weekend while engineers probed a magnet failure. But
Loose threads
I have a misbehaving plot bunny. It arrived all enthusiastic with a NaNoWriMo 2008 t-shirt on, and now it's just loafing around and not contributing to anything. I have a great bad guy with a cool back story and an actor lined up to play him (David