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There are a couple of things I need to mull over this weekend.

1) I'm spending an awful lot of time on the Internet. I've already done an f-list cut and trimmed down the blogs I read, and don't want to have to do it again. On the other hand... I'm spending an awful lot of time on the Internet.

2) There's a local fan group here that is based on meetups.com, and I joined because some of my friends are part of it. I've never actually made it to a meetup - the last one they held was Harry Potter night, which struck me as being The Stupidest Plan Ever. Now they announce that anyone who doesn't have a full profile on the website (I think I do) and posts a photo of themselves will be deleted as a troll/sockpuppet.

I don't have a photo of myself up. I don't *want* to put a photo of myself up. There probably are pictures of me out and about if you know where to look, but this icon is as close as I feel comfortable with putting up a picture of me, alone, on the Internet saying "This is me." ESPECIALLY as the meetup group has proper names on it.

I don't like being "exterminated" at the deadline as a non-person, but I also have no intention of filling that requirement, nor do I think I'm going to miss the group.

What I think I'm going to have to do is log on and withdraw now, and say why.

Wrong Number. Wrong Notion.

I keep getting calls on my cell phone for "Shelda." I finally started answering unknown numbers with "Shelda's giving out the wrong phone number."

This last guy rattled off my number and asked if it was mine. "Yes. There is no Shelda here."

"Oh, it doesn't matter what your name is, I'd like to talk to you about this opportunity..."

"NO!"

I don't care if he was going to offer 8 bazillion dollars and chocolate for life, I am NOT going to discuss anything with anybody who doesn't even give a damn who it is on the other end of the line.

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Blessings upon thee, cedara for linking to If You Were Gay done in Doctor Who macros Not safe for work or dialup.

Put all drinks in another zip code away from your monitor.

It is very, very scary how many knitters I know will line up for this yarn.


Speaking of knitters, can anyone point me to online patterns for a mostly garter-knit afghan done in blocks? I've decided that the best way of doing something about my stash is to make something that I can auto-knit block by block.

ETA: for the crafty geeks on my list (now, why isn't that an LJ comm?)
Scarf pattern based on playing card "perfect shuffle" I don't understand the math. I do grasp "random, ever-changing stripe width, less intense than Doctor Who scarf, would make good strips for afghan."

Calculator for the above which lets you plug in the number of colors you want to use.

Other geek patterns are the gamer geek scarf/strip unpattern (Roll one d12 or d20. That's how many rows in the next color you use. Either roll or grab randomly to pick the color, depending on the number of colors you have)

and the one for math geeks: Fibonacci sequence in two colors Knit one row in color A, one row in color B, 2 rows in color A, 3 rows in color B, 5 rows in color A, 1 row in color B... (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, changing with every number.) If you want wider stripes, start further up the Fibonacci sequence or go further up it. But to make the stripes alternate in two colors, you have to pick an odd number of total rows to do (1, 1, 2, 3, 5 or 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13) NOT 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 or you will be beginning every sequence with the same color.

All bets are off if you're using up your stash randomly, although you still probably want to pick an odd sequence number and go dark-light-dark-light.

And then there's always adapting the sudoku pattern to knitted squares: 9 squares each of nine colors. If you don't want to work out the pattern yourself, crib the "Yesterday's puzzle answer" from the newspaper.