10/10/10, 10:10am
Today is the tenth of October, 2010, at 10:10am. We will not see this for another hundred years, and we only have two more days like it this century, 11th November next year, and 12th December 2012.
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2010 Ig Nobel Prizes
I love the Ig Nobel prizes, the Peace and Management prizes are awesome this year!
Engineering Prize
Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London, UK, and Diane Gendron of Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, Mexico, for perfecting a method to collect whale snot, using a
Tweets for September 16th to September 30th
* "Here’s the riddle: what does an 8000 pound mako shark with a brain the size of a flathead V8 engine & no natural predators think about?"
* What's the LD50 for daytime TV to kill half my braincells?
* UltraEdit for Mac coming soon! This is the
FO: Persimmon eyelet socks
I started these in March, whipped out one sock and got bored. It languished on my desk until I had time off for surgery, when I picked it up and slowly worked on it. Turns out "slow" finishes things faster than "not at all", and you
FO: Cashmere Campanula scarf
Finally finished my Campanula scarf. It felt like this took forever, and how do you make scarf progress reports interesting?
Pattern: Campanula from knitspot (Ravelry link)
Yarn: Jade Sapphire Silk/Cashmere 2-ply
Needles: US3 Blackthorn dpns
Duration: 14th June to 13 September 2010
Ravelry project: Cashmere Campanula
I started tweeting
Tweets for September 1st to September 15th
* Gorgeous lilac sky, fading to stormy blue-grey with pale orange street lights. Can I get yarn in that colour?
* My web server is populated by zombie files, my blog is fragged, but I have a clean set of database tables. I'm calling that progress.
* Scarf progress: 21/27.
Patchy progress
The Cashmere Campanula Scarf (Rav link) is up to 22 repeats, and the ball of yarn is finally nearing the end. You're supposed to do 25 repeats, I think I can get 27 out of. I started this on July 14th, and I'm more than ready
Technical difficulties
I believe that's the polite term for what happened to my blog. The more accurate description is totally fragged and plagued by zombies. What's galling is that the trauma I went through was unnecessary because it was a web server/FTP server syncing issue.
The blog
Karate blue belt!
I tested for my karate blue belt on 30th August, and I passed!
I study at Tracy's Karate, the Kirkwood location. After my test, Karen took me into the sparring class and introduced me as a new blue belt, Ben hugged me, Dan shook my hand, random people
Tweets for August 16th to August 31st
* Two hours playing language/accent coach for a friend of a friend, wonderful to hear her accent narrowing in on the correct pronunciation!
* Desperately seeking NaNoWriMo plot ideas, I promise credit if I pen a bestseller. No ninja, pirates, or dinosaurs need apply. Thx!
* I have storage! Four usable shelves