Random post is random
- I've been reading some fanfic on Archive of Our Own, to pass the time at work, and I thought maybe it might be another place where I could post my own fics. What's everyone's opinion on AO3? Is it a good site?
- I was at a used book store on the weekend and I took the opportunity to track down some of the books mentioned in Among Others. I was only mildly successful, but I did buy one book I did find. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. I've never read any of her stuff before so I'm pretty excited to get into it. Supposedly, Triton, the book I really wanted to find, was written in response to The Dispossessed, so hopefully I can track down Triton at some point to compare the two. These older sci fi books are always interesting to read. The technology may be horribly off, but the concepts are fun. You get a sense of the world as it was in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Project Learn to Knit is progressing... kinda. It took me a few tries to get something started, but now I've started a simple garter stitch scarf as a practice project. My only problem is the knitting. I can sit down and start, but it gets boring after a while so I have to put it down. I've been told that it's easy to knit and watch TV at the same time, but I rather be concentrated on my TV show. At some point, I will need to learn the purl stitch, but I want to finish off the scarf before I do. Incidentally, as I was poking around the Internet to gain tips about knitting, I learned that the Fourth Doctor's scarf consists solely of knit stitches; no purl stitches required. So it is, in theory, really easy to make a Fourth Doctor scarf. You just need lots of yarn and time and patience. This doesn't mean I'm ready to rush out and make a Fourth Doctor scarf for myself. I just love the idea that you only have to learn one stitch to make something that's pretty cool.
- No Agent Carter this week. :-( But Arrow is back on Wednesday! It'll be interesting to see how they resolve the cliffhanger from the fall finale.
- I was at a used book store on the weekend and I took the opportunity to track down some of the books mentioned in Among Others. I was only mildly successful, but I did buy one book I did find. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. I've never read any of her stuff before so I'm pretty excited to get into it. Supposedly, Triton, the book I really wanted to find, was written in response to The Dispossessed, so hopefully I can track down Triton at some point to compare the two. These older sci fi books are always interesting to read. The technology may be horribly off, but the concepts are fun. You get a sense of the world as it was in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Project Learn to Knit is progressing... kinda. It took me a few tries to get something started, but now I've started a simple garter stitch scarf as a practice project. My only problem is the knitting. I can sit down and start, but it gets boring after a while so I have to put it down. I've been told that it's easy to knit and watch TV at the same time, but I rather be concentrated on my TV show. At some point, I will need to learn the purl stitch, but I want to finish off the scarf before I do. Incidentally, as I was poking around the Internet to gain tips about knitting, I learned that the Fourth Doctor's scarf consists solely of knit stitches; no purl stitches required. So it is, in theory, really easy to make a Fourth Doctor scarf. You just need lots of yarn and time and patience. This doesn't mean I'm ready to rush out and make a Fourth Doctor scarf for myself. I just love the idea that you only have to learn one stitch to make something that's pretty cool.
- No Agent Carter this week. :-( But Arrow is back on Wednesday! It'll be interesting to see how they resolve the cliffhanger from the fall finale.