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Apr. 8th, 2008 06:19 pmFirst time online in 48 hours. I'm resisting the urge to hug my monitor.
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faireraven, tchwrtr, and L (who I'm not sure is on LJ?) and we all went to the Annapolis Borders to see Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka, The Yarn Harlot, speak. (The publisher donated buttons that said "Eat, drink, knit." I loved them.) She is just as funny as I'd hoped, and was really kind afterwards, not only signing all the books brought to her, but having pictures taken, exclaiming over knitting, etc. And it turns out she's a newly-minted Stargate SG-1 fan! (There would be more to this, but I'm v. v. tired and even on filter, the f-list volume scares me. More later if requested.)
Hey,karenmiller: afterwards, when I was pimping Pratchett, we saw a healthy stock of your books, cover out, right temptingly by the signing line!
Random Grow-Your-Own Lap Blanket Pattern:
- Choose a yarn and needle size, and work out the stitches for a 5" square. (On 7s for me it's about 22 stitches by 22 garter rows.)
- Pick nine colors, about 3 balls of each.
- Pick nine stitch patterns - ones that lay relatively flat on both edges so blocks won't "pull" in the afghan. (Garter, seed, broken rib, etc., are all good; ribbing isn't.)
Now go find the solutions to two sudoku puzzles. One is your key for the colors, the other is your key to the stitches.
Links from the 100 tabs open at the moment:
A detailed description of the John Barrowman concert. With pictures!
spiderine has some excellent thoughts on writing kinky PWP here and since she's about the only fanficcer who gets the kink headspace right, I recommend it for those into that sort of thing.
Neil Gaiman has pointed readers of his blog to some of the favorite blurbs he's written. This one is for Thurber's brilliant 13 Clocks.
Gaiman is also a big old Whofan.
There's a recipe for a Laser Screwdriver drink. I'm half surprised it took this long to show up, considering that a pattern for knitted versions of the baddies from the latest Who hit online in less than 24 hours after airing.
As seen fromkradical and terri_osborne: the sequel to the clueless Star Wars fan putting bad fanfiction up for sale on Amazon is a clueless Trek fan putting bad fanfiction up for sale on Amazon.
An egg cuber. Presumably for bento people who don't want their eggs to look like cartoon bunnies.
This is very cool.
On the uncool side of things, an Illinois Representative ripped into a man testifying against a $1 million state payout to a church. Why? Because he is an atheist and she is... not. What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous, it’s dangerous... It’s dangerous to the progression of this state. And it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists! In Ms. Davis' haste to reaffirm her religious credentials in a political setting (after her rant she demanded that he leave the chamber immediately, saying he had "no right to be here"), she blew right over the inconvenient fact that both the Federal and Illinois Constitutions specify freedom of religion.
But it was time offline in a good cause - after work I met up with
faireraven, tchwrtr, and L (who I'm not sure is on LJ?) and we all went to the Annapolis Borders to see Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka, The Yarn Harlot, speak. (The publisher donated buttons that said "Eat, drink, knit." I loved them.) She is just as funny as I'd hoped, and was really kind afterwards, not only signing all the books brought to her, but having pictures taken, exclaiming over knitting, etc. And it turns out she's a newly-minted Stargate SG-1 fan! (There would be more to this, but I'm v. v. tired and even on filter, the f-list volume scares me. More later if requested.)Hey,
karenmiller: afterwards, when I was pimping Pratchett, we saw a healthy stock of your books, cover out, right temptingly by the signing line!Random Grow-Your-Own Lap Blanket Pattern:
- Choose a yarn and needle size, and work out the stitches for a 5" square. (On 7s for me it's about 22 stitches by 22 garter rows.)
- Pick nine colors, about 3 balls of each.
- Pick nine stitch patterns - ones that lay relatively flat on both edges so blocks won't "pull" in the afghan. (Garter, seed, broken rib, etc., are all good; ribbing isn't.)
Now go find the solutions to two sudoku puzzles. One is your key for the colors, the other is your key to the stitches.
Links from the 100 tabs open at the moment:
A detailed description of the John Barrowman concert. With pictures!
spiderine has some excellent thoughts on writing kinky PWP here and since she's about the only fanficcer who gets the kink headspace right, I recommend it for those into that sort of thing.Neil Gaiman has pointed readers of his blog to some of the favorite blurbs he's written. This one is for Thurber's brilliant 13 Clocks.
Gaiman is also a big old Whofan.
There's a recipe for a Laser Screwdriver drink. I'm half surprised it took this long to show up, considering that a pattern for knitted versions of the baddies from the latest Who hit online in less than 24 hours after airing.
As seen from
kradical and terri_osborne: the sequel to the clueless Star Wars fan putting bad fanfiction up for sale on Amazon is a clueless Trek fan putting bad fanfiction up for sale on Amazon. An egg cuber. Presumably for bento people who don't want their eggs to look like cartoon bunnies.
This is very cool.
On the uncool side of things, an Illinois Representative ripped into a man testifying against a $1 million state payout to a church. Why? Because he is an atheist and she is... not. What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous, it’s dangerous... It’s dangerous to the progression of this state. And it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists! In Ms. Davis' haste to reaffirm her religious credentials in a political setting (after her rant she demanded that he leave the chamber immediately, saying he had "no right to be here"), she blew right over the inconvenient fact that both the Federal and Illinois Constitutions specify freedom of religion.
