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Making glass beads

Went to Third Degree Glass Factory for their Third Friday event, which was also their eighth anniversary. I made six glass beads, and we watched them put a molten glass pumpkin into a tank of water and dry ice. It lasted a few seconds before exploding, tossing pieces of glass

FO: Landguard Hat

I got an experimental skein of Peace Fleece to see if it would be soft enough to make a wrap-front cardigan. I gave up searching for the perfect hat pattern and made my own, the first project I would consider releasing as an official design. Pattern: My own (my precious!

Tweets for October 1st to October 15th

* There is a perfectly rational explanation for why my TV turned itself on, with sound and no picture, while I was in the basement. Right? * Love the moment when the brain clicks, plot crystallises, and NaNoWriMo 2010 is suddenly, gloriously possible! This one's going to be good. * I

I knew him, Horatio

I love 3-D jigsaw puzzles. Four pieces live on my shelf at work, a sapphire, a green apple, a heart, and a crescent moon. At home I have a red apple, a rose, and a four-leafed clover. This week I picked up a new one, meet Yorick the skull: Alas,

10/10/10, 10:10am

Today is the tenth of October, 2010, at 10:10am. We will not see this for another hundred years, and we only have two more days like it this century, 11th November next year, and 12th December 2012.

2010 Ig Nobel Prizes

I love the Ig Nobel prizes, the Peace and Management prizes are awesome this year! Engineering Prize Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London, UK, and Diane Gendron of Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, Mexico, for perfecting a method to collect whale snot, using a

Tweets for September 16th to September 30th

* "Here’s the riddle: what does an 8000 pound mako shark with a brain the size of a flathead V8 engine & no natural predators think about?" * What's the LD50 for daytime TV to kill half my braincells? * UltraEdit for Mac coming soon! This is the

FO: Persimmon eyelet socks

I started these in March, whipped out one sock and got bored. It languished on my desk until I had time off for surgery, when I picked it up and slowly worked on it. Turns out "slow" finishes things faster than "not at all", and you

FO: Cashmere Campanula scarf

Finally finished my Campanula scarf. It felt like this took forever, and how do you make scarf progress reports interesting? Pattern: Campanula from knitspot (Ravelry link) Yarn: Jade Sapphire Silk/Cashmere 2-ply Needles: US3 Blackthorn dpns Duration: 14th June to 13 September 2010 Ravelry project: Cashmere Campanula I started tweeting

Tweets for September 1st to September 15th

* Gorgeous lilac sky, fading to stormy blue-grey with pale orange street lights. Can I get yarn in that colour? * My web server is populated by zombie files, my blog is fragged, but I have a clean set of database tables. I'm calling that progress. * Scarf progress: 21/27.

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