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| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 | |
dilbertdaily
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| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 | |
dilbertdaily
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| Friday, May 25th, 2012 |
e_moon60
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5:14p |
Green One Off Needles
Green One, (3rd pair of socks, first green) seemed like such an easy-going, cooperative pair of socks at first. The cuff ribbing...the careful decrease to a narrower part of the ankle below...the successful eye-of-partridge heel flaps. All was well, it seemed.
Until the rejoin, at which point...the heel flaps weren't as stretchy (besides being 2 stitches narrower and the top of foot also being 2 stitches narrower. I had to change gussets to help with that...and then try to adjust (with frequent try-ons. First they'd be really tight, then (when I let off on the decreases) suddenly they'd be overly loose. And the attempt to graft/Kitchener the toes shut...worst so far. Each pair has been harder--this pair was impossible. I was trying to do it flat, off the needles, using cooking twine to hold the stitches:
I gave up and ran yarn through every stitch and pulled the toe together. OK, it's a sock, it's not the best sock, but it's a sock.
The second sock, I left on needles, except changing to a smaller size needle right before trying to graft the toe, thinking that might help. No. This time I gave up faster (family had come back from the city--the solitude in which to say things to the yarn, the needles, etc., and the lack of interruption was over) and purse-stringed that one, too. It's annoying--I was able to do it with Red One and Blue One, both of whom have imperfect but definite grafted toes. But here they are, Green One socks on feet, off the needles. They're comfortable. I can walk in them, in shoes or out.
 
The thicker heels do help with my wider-heeled walking shoes, but also (and understandably) push my foot forward in the shoe a little. Although these fit better in some areas than previous pairs, they're still a bit big where I had to change the rate of decrease at the gussets. Learned a lot, but it's still not the perfect pattern.
On the very bright side, I now have three pairs of socks. Current Mood: accomplished |
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pennyarcaderss
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8:05p |
News Post: Disruptive Technology
http://penny-arcade.com/2012/05/25/disruptive-technology
Tycho: Whenever we come up with something dumb, something that’s supposed to be a joke like the game in the strip, a lot of times it starts to grow on me. I don’t know! I think there’s a lot of headroom there. I do have a Kickstarter problem, though, and it may require a technology a sophisticated as Gabriel’s to bring this irresistible drive to its conclusion. Part of it is that… yeah. Right? Arimaa is cool, and a beautiful set that honors Arimaa is wanty, that is to say, it generates want. I think that I could elaborate |
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pennyarcaderss
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dilbertdaily
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| Thursday, May 24th, 2012 | |
dinosaurcomics
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matociquala
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dilbertdaily
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| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 |
grrm
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e_moon60
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10:03p |
Reality Versus the Fiction Writer
1) Do I really think everyone should be barcoded? Of course not. Seriously...you thought it was for real? After hearing about responses to the photographer who thought everyone should be limited to just one photo a day, you still thought this was a dead-serious part of the discussion? The term "Empress of the Universe" wasn't a clue that this was a science fiction writer making something up? 2) So why....? The format of "The Forum" has this sixty second idea thing in it. I was told it was the entertaining, fun part of the show. I interpreted that as "light-hearted interlude." Participants are asked to come up with an idea--however impractical, impossible, unnecessary, and/or undesirable. The BBC staff picks one and the person whose idea it was is then supposed to present and defend it. I don't know about the others, but I tossed out several ideas over the phone, and they didn't seem to create any interest. The idea is supposed to be related to the day's topic (there went my idea for putting solar panels on top of cars in all sunny climes...) It's not supposed to be related to things the participant has already given as points they might want to make in the main discussion (there went another idea or two, including an implant to manage aberrant brain chemistry in soldiers so they wouldn't commit stress-related errors, have rage episodes, maybe even prevent PTSD) or points put forward by the other participants when their main statements are known (and there went something else I didn't even mention to them.) When the first few got "Yes, but..." reactions, I thought "Oh, good, someone else's idea will be used." I'd been told the right one would be picked on the weekend. The weekend went by. Whew. Off the hook. Then came Monday. "We're really looking forward to your 60-second idea." What??!! I guess it's understandable...if you've got a science fiction writer on tap, let her come up with ideas. Maybe they'll be...off the wall. Exciting. Innovative. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: awake |
matociquala
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9:01p |
i just know that i'm harder to console
I'm working on "The Deeps of the Sky" tonight, and generating a regular festival of Words Word Don't Know: luminesced, tropopause, sheeny, thicks, unnavigable, dartlike, Meanwhile, I had a little argument with myself on twitter as to whether I should use some modestly bogus science to create a cool special effect. I went with it. ;-) Now I'm stopping because I have to figure out how the protagonist intervenes to stop the Bad Thing from happening, or how he mops up afterward... Oh, I might have just done so. Woot! Current Mood:  mellow |
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wilwheaton
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4:17p |
in which i have a realization, and i am grateful
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wwdn/~3/e5vpBn4hDGw/in-which-i-have-a-realization-and-i-am-grateful.html In the precious few moments I had today between work-related responsibilities, I stopped into my comic shop, and I saw this:
I made this!
I've been so busy, and I finished my part of this project so long ago, I wasn't prepared for how proud and excited I was when I saw a book that I had written in my own comic shop, right there down the shelf from Brubaker, Wood, Willingham, Fraction, Waid, and other comic book authors I respect and admire.
When I bought some copies, Amy (who some of you know from Tabletop) held it up and said, "Is this your first published work as a comic author?"
I thought for a second and said, "I've written manga before, but this is my first comic book."
And that's when it hit me: Today, I am a published comic book author. A real one, and if I work really hard, and have a little bit of luck, it's only the beginning.
I've been traveling and working so much the past few months, I haven't been able to slow down and look around very often (life moves as fast as Ferris Beuller warned us), so I haven't been able to just stop, reflect, and be grateful for what I have. I don't mean to suggest that I'm taking things for granted, or under the delusion that I'm some kind of big deal or anything stupid like that, I just mean that I can't think about more than what is immediately in front of me until it's done, and there's been a long list of somethings in front of me for most of this year (which is awesome; it's great to be busy making a living doing what I love.)
But it's all too easy to get so overwhelmed with all the responsibility, we forget to take a moment to be grateful for the opportunities we have.
Today, I am grateful.
And now I am going back to work.  |
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pennyarcaderss
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11:11p |
News Post: The Foxtrot Papa Of Bravo Alpha
http://penny-arcade.com/2012/05/23/the-foxtrot-papa-of-bravo-alpha
Tycho: We’d only played about ten minutes of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier when we wrote the comic, but it was enough time for someone to ask me What The Situation Was, and whenever they do that this is always the conversation I hear in my head. It’s ineluctable. I have to say the whole thing out loud, too. If I don’t say it out loud, things begin to thicken up there. I can feel the words forming a clot in my brain. Splinter Cell: Conviction is one of my favorite games, and I only know a couple people who agree with that |
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wilwheaton
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11:55a |
something stirs and something tries and starts to climb toward the light
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wwdn/~3/HIBXmfaQhFA/something-stirs-and-something-tries-and-starts-to-climb-toward-the-light.html I worked on [REDACTED] today, and had more fun than I thought possible. I can't say anything more until July.
Tomorrow, I work on [REDACTED], which is different from [REDACTED], but should be really awesome, too. I can't believe I get to spend two days working with [ACTORS].
(It was a lot easier to talk about my job before the studios became obsessed with secrecy.)
So a couple of quick things before I get back to preparing for [REDACTED]:
- I'm going to the Phoenix Comicon this weekend. I'll be on a few panels, and I'm doing a special show on Saturday night.
- Next week, Felicia and I are going to Origins in Columbus, to play games and talk about Tabletop.
- My testing of the theory that it is not possible to have too many gaming dice continues, so if you're coming to either one of these cons and want to give me dice that I can add to my ever-growing collection, I'd love to have them.
- Today, the comic I wrote with Felicia for The Guild comes out. It's called FAWKES, and it is about what happens between the end of Season 4 and [SPOILER] in Season 5. It's getting generally good reviews, which delights me. The only negative is that I didn't spend several pages filling in people who don't watch The Guild why they should care about the story and who everyone is, which is a little silly, because I didn't write it for those people (who aren't going to buy it, anyway.)I'm especially happy with the artwork and both covers, and super-grateful to Dark Horse for supporting it.
Finally, my beloved Los Angeles Kings are in the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1993. This is what I looked like last night after they won in overtime:
Not actually taken last night, but I do this whenever the Kings win.
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dinosaurcomics
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LIVEJOURNAL RELEASE 92: NEW SITE UPDATES AND MORE
May 23, 2012 - The official LiveJournal Release 92 has been deployed. Here’s what you’ll find in this latest site update:
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- Particularly long comment threads now collapse with the alert “...and [#] more comments.” Just click on that alert to see the rest of the comments. Here’s what this looks like:
- Notification emails now hide any content that was already placed inside an lj-cut instead of displaying the entire entry.
- Social Capital is now displayed for all communities on the profile page.
- You can now embed the Spotify player into your journal or community style.
- Personal userheads are now available for purchase. A personal userhead is of your own design and is unique to you, unavailable to anyone else. Purchase as many personal userheads as you like; each costs 5,000 LJ FunBux™, and is good for five years. Learn more.
BUGS, FIXED
- Scheduled entries should no longer return errors or double-post.
- Domain mapping should no longer force redirection to the LiveJournal login page.
- The format=light URL modifier works on entry pages again.
- Comment notification emails will send even if the entry has a poll.
- The "Music" section on the edit entries page will let you delete the entire text field.
- The help link next to “Do not add to friends pages and RSS” on the update page now links to the correct FAQ.
- The list of journals and communities added by default for new users has changed to
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- Missing navigation items in the Classic journal style have re-appeared.
- Notifications about expiring add-ons will now have correct subject lines.
- The bold/italic/strikethrough buttons in the site default commenting scheme should no longer cause cursor positioning problems in Chrome.
- The Calendar feature will now update properly when you edit an entry and change its date.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD: HELP WITH A VGIFT!
Join us in standing up for reproductive health and education. Through the end of the month, you can send a specially designed Planned Parenthood vgift to your LiveJournal friends to help support this cause. (And if you need someone to send it to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/user_ontd.gif?v=92.1) frank is always happy to receive gifts!). There are three variations for you to choose from ($1, $5 and $10), but they’d all look good on your profile. Thank you for your support! Learn more.
- The LiveJournal Team |
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| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 |
rack_of_lamb
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8:59p |
Y&R May 23, 2012
Youtube clips for all the international fans. If you are in the US, please consider to watch directly on CBS.com if you are unable to watch the show live or don't own a DV-R. Also, the show will rerun the same night on SoapNet. Please check your local listing. ( May 23, 2012 ) |
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