T minus seven
I'm looking at November with a tinge of panic. My 2008 NaNoWriMo plot isn't as fleshed out as I like, I have only vague idea of how my good guy is going to defeat the bad guy. There are some cool ideas but I need research
More issues
Cormo and Targhee
I'm still spinning Cormo, though I set the wheel back to the slowest ratio. There's about 2oz left to go before Navajo plying, which should probably be attacked on a relaxed Friday afternoon with a glass of Bailey's for good measure. Slowing down the
Knit recap
Eris continues. Wound another skein of Cascade 220 and started the hem. It might end up longer than the pattern says, but I like long cardigans and I have two extra skeins of yarn anyway. I'm working on the short rows to set up the curved hem pieces,
Reading the dictionary
BBC News: The man who reads dictionaries.
Ammon Shea spent a year reading the Oxford English Dictionary - 20 volumes, 21,730 pages and 59 million words - and he rates poring over a dictionary as enriching as reading a novel. Why? The prospect of talking to a man who
Snow on Mars
BBC News: Phoenix detects Red Planet snow.
The Phoenix spacecraft on Mars has detected snow above its landing site. The US robot used its lidar instrument to probe the structure of clouds and saw large water ice-crystals falling through the Martian "air". The instrument, which works by scattering
Spin cycle
Went to the Weaving Dept Spin in on Saturday 11th, and spent a happy few hours spinning outside with Susan and Kay. I got more spinning done that day than in the preceding six months, and learned an important lesson: Stop spinning like a hamster on meth. It's
Whine and Cheese
PhoeKnits posted recently about the seeming forced happiness on knit blogs. I keep most of the personal stuff off these pages and I have reasons for that. This space is about knitting and science and news and spinning and writing, stuff that bounces around my head that I want recorded.
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 interested,
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