I'm getting a yen to try and knit again. I've only learned a little bit a couple of times, but my left wrist just couldn't take the strain for some reason. Magpy suggested continental knitting ages ago, and I finally went looking for videos of how it is done. I don't think it's quite what I need. The thread tension is done off the left hand ( Read more... )

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I'm used to loosely-typed languages. Want to convert a string into a number? Just assume it is one. In Mumps you just use the unary operator + to force a string to convert to a number - the system assumes integer unless there's a decimal point or an "E" (for exponent). Well - actually it creates a new string and uses that internally, but whatever ( Read more... )

Life in some ways can be considered a game.

Each player doesn't have the same starting pieces, the pieces have different powers depending on the player, they have different end goals, the rules vary by variables that they don't necessarily know in advance or after the fact.

It sometimes makes me wonder if "Go Fish" wouldn't be better.

Well, we're off the forced feedings for a little bit at least. We're letting Greyson eat ad lib, and giving him a appetite stimulant even though he'll graze quite a bit. So far he's doing OK. The only side effect is to make him more vocal (as if he wasn't already ( Read more... )

Top 100 Book Meme ( Read more... )

I hope my wife and her grandmother enjoy them.

I'm at home. I'm doing a few things to entertain myself, though, and taking a vacation from the office that I'm suspecting I desperately need.

There are leaf blowers outside, so all I need is a general and I can have a week of "hookers and blow."

Bad puns... Oh, yeah, I'm feeling better already.

We used to have an air popper for popcorn. It died a dusty death a while ago, and we've been using microwave popcorn since then. It works, but I didn't have it all that often. Something about the oil or flavoring just was off to me ( Read more... )

I've got notes to write a long post or three, but those are for later since I'm tired and not hitting on all cylinders ( Read more... )

Lovely. I stubbed that toe again, and cracked the nail, deep. As in, behind the margin of where you'd cut it normally. I'm seeing the podiatrist tomorrow already, so I'm wrapping the thing up so he can tease me PRN ( Read more... )