I could go on for quite a while about how amazing Ravelry is, but the latest highly visible awesomeness can be see here. Casey (the code monkey, currently on my “most admired people” list) has set up a way for some people to show their knitting works in progress with pictures and progress bars, so [...]
I came across this beauty while avoiding my TM predictions yesterday afternoon. I do enjoy the lolcats, though I tend to wait for the good ones to percolate through the Interwebs for a while before they get to me. This ensures I see macros that I really like and may actually cause me to burst [...]
Last week I ran away, arms flailing and SkyMiles trailing behind me, to the chilly and rainy foothills of the Rocky Mountains for a few days of Not Doing Anything. While there I did a 10K despite not being completely adjusted to the elevation (not my best plan, but it worked out in the end), [...]
I heard odd noises as I got ready for work today. Even though it’s been several years since I’ve worked in a group that actually does experiments, I’m still jumpy about noises that are out of the ordinary or not immediately explainable. (In a proper lab, odd noises often mean something is broken, and that [...]
I warned this might be a three-pair-of-socks term, and so it has become. I finished the latest pair while listening to SoCal choirs on Saturday. The crafting of these socks was particularly fraught with peril, as I managed to run out of yarn before the toe of the second sock, then I lost the first [...]