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PEACP unto all
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Friday, Dec 21 2007
I was walking down the aisle at Target the other day when I saw this set of Christmas stocking hangers. At first glance, I thought that they were just rearranged by a prankster, but if you look closely, you can see that all the letters are attached to the box by plastic zip ties. I…
Unix Ware: BoingBoinged
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Thursday, Oct 18 2007
This photo of mine, of some glassware with an interesting (and geeky) brand name, just got posted on BoingBoing. If any BoingBoing readers are visiting, hello and welcome! Sorry, there’s a lot of knitting stuff here. But other things too. And there will be more.
Where have I been lately? takes an unexpected turn
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Monday, Oct 15 2007
Just a quick note. I didn’t get around to posting the rest of the European trip stuff yet, because I had an oh-so-exciting trip to the emergency room instead. This was followed by a fascinating guided tour of an operating room, a brief sojourn in a recovery room, and a restful time in a hospital…
Now you know why it only costs $3.99
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Thursday, Aug 30 2007
I saw this Halloween decoration on sale at Jo-Ann Crafts in Renton, WA the other day. “Trick or Treak”? The least they could do was have a native English-speaker look over the stuff at some point before the product got sent out to all the stores. They probably made thousands of these cheap, crappy, ugly,…
Girl with a Bullet Wound
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Friday, Jul 27 2007
I wonder if the Seattle P-I photographer who took this photo intended to evoke this famous painting? (About which, more here.)
Sherman wants a belly rub
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Thursday, May 3 2007
Sherman likes belly rubs. But he reacts differently when Jason or I rub his belly. When I do it, he purrs and rolls around and is generally all lovey and sweet. When Jason does it, he grabs his hand and starts to chew on it and attack it (playfully, not hostilely). My theory is that…
Edward Scissorhands: OK, but…
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Wednesday, May 2 2007
Photo by Edward Scissorhands Tour. I promised a review of Edward Scissorhands, directed by Matthew Bourne, and currently running at the 5th Avenue Theater. I don’t have time to write a real review, but here’s a quick note about it. If you go to see it, be aware that it’s basically a modern ballet. There…
Kool-aid follow-up and journalistic ethics
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Wednesday, Apr 25 2007
The Kool-Aid didn’t do much. I left it on for 3 hours. It added a touch of color to the brown hair, but only the slightest bit to the white hair. That’s OK; it was basically just a goofy experiment since I had the materials on hand. I think the thing is that you have…
Kool-Aid, bronchitis, knitting, Edward Scissorhands
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Tuesday, Apr 24 2007
Well, I don’t post often enough in the best of times, but dealing with 3 weeks of bronchitis made me a lot less motivated to post. You know how it is — you do the minimum you have to do, and then your brain just shuts down for a while. And now that I am…
Pattern: Detlef-13 (Felted laptop sleeve for 13-inch laptop)
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Sunday, Mar 11 2007
Photo by litlnemo. I finished the laptop sleeve this week! It came out quite nice; I think it will do a great job of keeping my Macbook from getting scratched! Here is the pattern. It takes three skeins of Cascade 220 (two main color, one contrast color), and is knitted in the round, double-stranded. It…
Laptop sleeve in progress
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Tuesday, Feb 20 2007
Back to some knitting content — this is going to be a felted laptop sleeve for my Macbook. Note the repeating apple pattern. 😉 The tension on the apples is pretty bad but the felting should fix it. The swatch worked out pretty well. I might have to cut the strands to get it to…
Mystery book
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Tuesday, Feb 6 2007
Today I received a book in the mail, the book pictured on the right: Vanishing Seattle by Clark Humphrey. This is a book I’ve had on my wish list for a while; it’s got a ton of great pictures of Seattle landmarks that have sadly disappeared. I’m old enough now to remember a lot of…
10 years ago
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Sunday, Dec 31 2006
This post is delayed because we were out of town all week, but December 27 marked the 10th anniversary of the day Jason and I got married, in a post-blizzard deep-freeze just after Christmas, 1996. 10 years sounds like a long time, but it’s gone by amazingly quickly. It’s been a happy ten years, and…
What is this?
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Tuesday, Dec 5 2006
This is a close-up of the aforementioned “Baby Eleanor” scarf. Here’s a photo that shows the whole thing, so far. I can see why everyone is knitting this. It is easy once you get past the beginning. Not that the beginning is hard, it just takes some getting used to, and the entrelac instructions I…
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Today’s thrift store finds
Jason and I visited Goodwill yesterday to browse for interesting stuff. I found a bag of vintage thread; the green ones are pictured here, but there were a lot more. Almost all of them have old fashioned wooden spools, and many are unused. Some are silk thread, but most are cotton. I suppose that cutting…