#$)$(*#)$@#*%)#%*@#)(*$%)@(*$#@)$*@#)$(#@*$#)*! I hate when people pull this kind of crap! STOP IT PEOPLE! Stop vandalizing other's work! Stop stealing other people's storage-space! Grrr!
It looks like someone's inserting their photos (some of them nasty) in my page. Dammit! I am VERY VERY upset about this!
I may have to temporarily disable photos on this blog so that the nice people who read me don't get any bad surprises.
Since Diann is doing a numbered list for today, I think I will, too:
1. I've sewn the shoulder seams and picked up the stitches for the hood on the CPH. It's easy enough, knitting the hood. I'm just not looking forward to picking up the 158 stitches for the front bands and front-hood bands.
2. Would the person (maybe it was Chris?) who had some lichen-links please resend them to me? I'm beginning a research project involving lichens (short form: there's going to be a coal-fired power plant built within 30 miles of where I live. Great effort is being made to get it "grandfathered" under older (laxer) pollution rules. There is great concern here (the plant is in Texas) that it's going to badly affect our air quality. So I'm going to quick do some lichen surveys (along with some particulate-matter surveys) this spring and summer as a baseline measure. So if the plant gets built and the air quality tanks, I can go back out and re-measure the lichens and
3. I picked out yarn for the Bacteriophage socks (yes, I am still planning them). Now the phages are going to be pink. Why? The pink went better with the blue yarn I'm planning to use (this is deep, deep, deep from-the-stash stuff) and the idea of pink bacteriophages amuses me anyway. I may even get tempted to start these this weekend.
4. I also am going through my Big Books of Stitch Patterns and thinking happily about future socks. I found another really coooooool cable pattern...and I have some pumpkin colored Knitpicks "Gloss" I want to use....and I think the two will meld nicely. Again, if anyone wants the pattern once I work it up I'm happy to share. (I never know if what I think of as cool cables other people think of as cool cables as well, but whatever).
5. I'm also finding patterns labeled "Northcott" or "Polperro" or "Looe" as part of their names. Are these place-names? (for example: there is "Polperro Musician" and "Polperro Laughing Boy.") I find the names wonderful and mysterious - neither the "musician" nor the "laughing boy" looks anything like its name. And the wonderful mysteriousness of the patterns makes me want to work them up into socks or a hat or something.
6. I got myself another birthday present: Brandy Agerbeck's "Mr. Scissorsuit." (you will need to scroll down). I saw the pillows on her site and I just loved that one. Because:
a. It's one of a kind art (made by someone other than me) and I don't have a lot of things like that.
b. He has scissors on his suit.
c. I love his Mr. Hulot meets Rene Magritte quality. At least, that's what I see when I look at him. (And I probably didn't need to give you lot a link to who Rene Magritte was; I'd expect you pretty much know.)
(I'd take a picture of him in his new home and post it here but I'm not sure what Brandy's policy is on that; I don't know if it would seem like a copyright violation).
7. Next Saturday is tentatively (provided there is no bad weather and no "emergency you must do this") planned to be the Birthday Celebratory Trip...for the past several years I've taken a Saturday and gone to McKinney to just have a day of fun and being 'away' and eating a nice meal somewhere and looking at antiques and buying a few little silly things for myself. (The 27th is my actual birthday but it's a Tuesday so I don't anticipate being able to really do anything special...)
I'm still trying to get past the idea that it might look pathetic to the rest of the world that I'm looking forward to a day of shopping ALONE on my birthday. The truth is, I enjoy it.
8. If you think in hexadecimal, my age will be 26. I rather like that. I may go around telling people my hexadecimal age. (And if "50 is the new 30," as some claim, then by that logic, I will turn 18. Also an interesting age to be.)
Of course, I will also be 100110 in binary. Older than dirt!
I will also be a "factorial prime" this year.
9. Speaking of binary, here's another geek-hat pattern: A hat that spells 'hat' in binary.
All of us (me, TChem, Erika, the person who designed the klein-bottle hat, and anyone else who's made a math/science inspired hat that I'm forgetting) should get together and make up some kind of secret society for people who knit math and or science into hats. (I would say "geek knitting" but there are some people who still consider "geek" an insult. I tend to belong to the "Say it clear, say it loud, I'm a geek, and I'm proud" school. Or the "We're here, we're geeks, get used to us" school.)
10. I was starting #10 and then found the hacked photos. Dammit!
3 comments:
Polperro is in Cornwall, apparently. 'Laughing Boy' is a cut song from the Gilbert and Sullivan Yeomen of the Guard, and G&S does have some stuff to do with Cornwall. That there is more of a connection there than the one made in my poor mad brain is tickling at the backs of my thoughts; I'll see if I can find anything more.
The birthday celebration sounds wonderful; one of my favorite days of my life was a day I had alone in London, with nobody to expect me to do anything or be anywhere.
Gloss is nice stuff; I'm making myself a pair of socks out of some of it now. It's soft and has a really pretty sheen to it.
we are geeks, hear us roar, in numbers to great to ignore! (helen reddy don't have nuthin on us!)
My Flickr account went all haywire too - ball sack instead of rail track. Not want I wanted to see that early on a Saturday (if ever!).
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