While some people might think that sprang is a verb (she sprang out of bed in the morning, fully alert and ready to face her day), today it has been a nounI have seen sprang mentioned in various books and articles on archaeological textiles over the years, and it always looked interesting, but I wasn't motivated to try it. In part because the ( Read more... )

cross-posted from my other blogStarting in June of 2007 I set myself the goal of reading 1000 words a day from the geologic literature. The reason for this was the fact that I had a huge pile of papers I needed to read, and hadn’t been making the time to read any of it. Since then there have been numerous days in which I forgot and had to start ( Read more... )

Today in Italian class the lesson was focused on food-words and menus in Restaurants. They also touched on the cost of eating in a restaurant. The teacher commented that a restaurant which charges 200 Euros for a meal is quite expensive, but one which charges 30 is a fairly typical moderately priced restaurant. This number sounded a bit steep to ( Read more... )

As I've mentioned recently, my second experiment is running. Ideally I should have the next one ready to run before stopping this one. Tomorrow marks one full week of that one running, which is the minimum amount of time we should leave it "cooking" (the first ran for about a week and a half). Logic says that I should have another two capsules ( Read more... )

Looking back on it, other than the one friends-locked post, I have been quiet here for nearly a week. My that slipped by quickly. During that time I have ( Read more... )

This weekend was, in some ways, a return to my roots in the SCA. When I was young I was able to attend a weekend event by putting on a costume, putting a few things in a backpack, and heading out the door. It has been many, many years since I've approached an event like that! Even when I don't bring the pavilion, tourney chests, armour, many ( Read more... )