The Denver Knitters Guild has hired me to teach a class on dyeing yarn tomorrow. They asked me to put together a handout, and they're actually paying pretty well so I'm trying to include as much as I can. It's really kind of weird. I've spent the last two years learning quite a lot about dyeing fiber, and at the risk of bragging I'm pretty damn ( Read more... )

I have a bed again! I'm mildly worried that I'm going to fall off when I try to roll over because it's only two feet wide, but I haven't fallen off the similarly-sized memory foam piece while it's been on the floor, so I'm just going to risk it. Once I finish my bookshelf tomorrow afternoon and finally have somewhere to unpack the box of books I ( Read more... )

I'm really starting to feel sorry for David Morrissey. I mostly know him from Blackpool, which I watched because it had David Tennant in it and subsequently found it to be very good. The plot was rather complicated, but a significant subplot involved Morrissey's wife having an affair with Tennant. Now I'm watching State of Play, which I started ( Read more... )

The first episode of Law & Order: UK came out yesterday. Leaving the contrasts with Life on Mars aside, there are two amusing mismatches that I've noticed so far: a) It's very recognizable as Law & Order, but everyone's British. L&O is so consistently New Yorkish that it's like seeing all the detectives wearing tutus. B) Lee Adama from Battlestar ( Read more... )

Why is there an assumption that if you like a show/movie/book, and wish to talk to other fans of the show/movie/book, you also must want to read porn about the characters in that show/movie/book? I'm all for free speech and people who want to write sexual fanfiction are certainly welcome to do so, but it would also be kind of nice to find a ( Read more... )

First, today's xkcd for anyone who hasn't seen it:


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I recently discovered that there is now a CollegeHumor tv series. On the one hand, it sounds like a rather typical workplace comedy. On the other hand, I think it could start a whole new trend in film adaptations of non-narrative websites. I'm holding out for Craigslist: The Musical.

I started watching Life on Mars because it runs ads constantly during Lost, and when I looked it up on Google it seemed interesting, especially the fact that it was based on a BBC show. I downloaded both seasons of the BBC show, and everything that's aired so far of the US series. The US episodes finished first, so I watched those, and now I'm ( Read more... )

Someone should develop a facebook app that lets you track what power tools you and your friends have and keeps track of what you've lent to whom. I suspect that somewhere in the neighborhood is a belt or orbital sander, but I'm not quite willing to go door to door asking to borrow one. I would gladly let other people use my bandsaw in exchange. A ( Read more... )

If you were given an educational gift certificate, and you could take whatever courses you wanted with no particular concern for usefulness in the future but just because they were interesting, what would you take ( Read more... )