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State of the Union

NaNoWriMo has proved I work better with goals and a deadlines. I'm looking at the state of my knitting, spinning, and writing for the next few days and thinking about what goals I want to achieve. Passing the citizenship test was a huge personal goal, thank you for

Civic duties

On Thursday I finished my Vintage Velvet scarf in the waiting room of the Federal building downtown. The place has an airport security scanner that let through both my metal circular needle and wooden double point needles. It also has several chirpy security guys who are always helpful and point

Architectural Lego

Wired: Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Sets Brick by brick, Lego has been building its way out of the near bankruptcy it suffered around the turn of the century. It has done this by a seemingly simple strategy - making awesome product after awesome product. Now it is releasing the almost

UK Internet Censorship

(Link via Random Acts of Reality.) Wired UK: The hidden censors of the internet. Journey with us to a state where an unaccountable panel of censors vets 95 per cent of citizens’ domestic internet connections. The content coming into each home is checked against a mysterious blacklist by a group

Catch up

It's been a busy month. Knitting Did a little work on my Eris cardigan, but still haven't figured out how the back gets cast off. It has to go sometime and I can't find it in the directions, which worries me. I don'

Cod moves in mysterious ways

Back in Guildford I wanted a t-shirt with a picture of a running chicken and the caption "Poultry in Motion". It was a Simon Drew design, I love his sense of humour and drawing style. These are links to some of his designs on coasters available from Castle

Ungrateful cat is ungrateful

Brand new squishy cat bed vs. free cardboard box. Even sprinkled with catnip, she prefers the box. You snooze, you lose.

The historic influenza panda mix

There have been four flu pandemics so far, named for their country of origin: * 1889 Russian flu, estimated one million deaths, possible H3 strain * 1918 Spanish flu, estimated 20 to 100 million deaths, H1N1 strain * 1957 Asian flu, estimated one million deaths, H2N2 strain * 1968 Hong Kong flu, estimated one

Hiatus

Our home internet has been shut off because of an oversight by the provider. It would take at least a week to get it back online, which isn't worth fighting for. Things will be sporadic here till May 16th, then all will better. Everything's fine, there

Random Links

I'm knitting two scarves right now, and they need to be the right length. Isadora Duncan died in a tragic scarf-too-long accident in an open-top car. She was an American dancer in the 1920s. She would have died in a car similar in looks to something from the

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