BarCamp San Diego this weekend

I’ve been negligent in my event-reporting duties. This weekend (June 2-3) San Diego gets its very own BarCamp, and I’ll be there along with lots of awesome people. Topics so far include programming, photography, yoga, knitting, metal fabrication, and monkeys.  (Yes, the last one is mine.)
If you’re in the San Diego area and have a [...]

Flying Spaghetti Monster Hat

You cannot resist the Flying Spaghetti Monster Hat.
The Pope has a special hat. Rabbis have special hats. Rastafarians have special hats. Why not Pastafarians?

Go Team Wales - The Finish Line

It’s not Chariots of Fire, but still.
The Spit is Exhausted.

It has performed its tast admirably, and I will return to it again and again. But not for this project! For I have finished! I have… SOCKS!

Go Team Wales - Day Fifteen

You know those mini tornadoes that you would get in the middle of the street or on the blacktop, in that place where no bushes grew but where the chip bags and twinkie wrappers lay scattered, and the fall wind would come out of nowhere, it seemed, and there would be this inverted cone of [...]

Go Team Wales - Day Thirteen

*Feeling the heat.*
“Charlotte Lucas has just accepted Mr. Collins,”:http://librivox.org/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen-solo-project/ and I have just begun the foot of the sock (part two). The days are counting down to the completion of the union of the two (socks), and I am feeling the pressure, though I admit my own happy occasion must be one of more [...]

Go Team Wales - Day Eleven

*The pattern’s the thing.*
Chris has taken the camera and flown away, leaving me with the old camera with which to document my progress. The problem is that the old camera will not take photos unless the lighting is full natural light. As I tend to photograph and post at about, oh, 11:30 at [...]

Go Team Wales - Day Nine

*Keeping the romance alive.*
Tonight, I knitted while Chris contemplated importing labor from Romania.

Go Team Wales - Day Seven

*Tion Medon*
No post yesterday, because I sat down on the sofa last night and whimpered. I was tired. I knit about four rows. But that wussy knitter is gone now. I knit a lot today, listening to an audio reading of _Pride and Prejudice_ from “Librivox.”:http://librivox.org/
For those of you counting, there [...]

Go Team Wales - Day Five

*The view from here is pretty good.*
The sock, a work in progress, as adorned by Hershey:

This is the only shot in which he did not a) lick the sock, b) chew the needles, or c) grab the sock with a deadly-inaccurate claw. If it had been alpaca, y’all would be reading a somewhat expletive-heavy [...]

Go Team Wales - Day Four

*A true athlete looks beyond the pain.*
So today began the fourth day. I’m feeling it in my upper arms. You laugh? You try to grip sticks of wood half the diameter of chopsticks in your fingertips and maneuver string with them for hours at a stretch.
Sorry. I’m a bit [...]