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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Almost, but not quite

Finished half of the Flutter scarf at Saturday morning knitting with Karen in Borders cafe, picked up the stitches for the second half in a quiet room at home and had a horrible time re-starting the pattern. I need to rip it out several rows, a pattern and a half,

NaNoWriMo meme

Swiped from Merinda's blog, originally from Benjamin Solah, who has a list of other people who have done the meme. When and how did you find out about NaNoWriMo? How did you go? I spotted it on Shirl's blog in 2004, and Hubby suggested I give

Tweets for the week of October 16th

* Alert level holding at two teaspoons of sugar in tea: in work till 3pm, wedding at 5:32pm, meeting Hubby partway there, NaNo meetup tomorrow * At home, fixing recalcitrant sock for the third time after a major rip out. Someday I will actually finish something, and it will be good.

Have you seen this boson?

BBC News: 'Magnetic electricity' discovered. Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones. The work is the first to make use of the magnetic monopoles that exist in special crystals known as spin ice. Writing in Nature

Mathematical progression

I really do knit, but I'm ripping a lot out right now. I don't subscribe to the "trotting horse" school of dealing with errors (if you couldn't spot it from a trotting horse, leave it be). My horse would be the one

Tweets for the week of October 9th

* Printed a picture of Sai for motivation, I get to train with these for the next kata but there's a purple belt test between me and weaponry. * LD50 for kitchen cleaner is the dose needed to half kill the user. Apparently about an hours cleaning work is the

Gearing up for NaNoWriMo

I'm a little distracted right now and it won't go away till December. I'm going to be writing a novel, gearing up for Christmas, taking my purple belt test, and doing a bunch of work on the house. And doing a full time job

2009 Ig Nobel Prizes

You have to love the Ig Nobel prizes! And wonder "what were they thinking" when these people got grant money to study... Veterinary Medicine Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are

Tweets for the week of October 2nd

* One tyre going flat on car, the oldest one, the one not replaced last trip to the tyre place, the one I ripped up by accident and replaced. * Clothes shopping: I am now in between sizes and nothing fits right. Either I head back to the gym and keep working

Frankensocks

Frankenstein's monster was supposed to be made from the best parts of many corpses, but it didn't work out so well. Every pair of socks I make is a selection of parts from different patterns. I like rolled tops for toe up socks, and hemmed tops

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