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The Honeymoon is Over
Dear Scotland ( Read more... ) -
Ravelry and Difficulty Ratings
Some months back, I read an editorial (written by a high school student, which the printer of the editorial thought was important enough to mention so I will relay it to you) about Ravelry where she observed and wondered about the difficulty "ranking" system of patterns, noting that only two patterns were marked as Very Difficult. Two patterns in ( Read more... ) -
Follow-up: "Gang Rape Story Lacked Balance"
The New York Times, in it's online blog, yesterday posted...well, you can't really call it an apology.
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The story quickly climbed The Times’s “most emailed” list but not just because of the sensational facts of the crime involved. “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town,” published on Tuesday, reported the gang ( Read more... ) -
Oliver and Libby and the Case of the Mousie
Oliver's favourite toy(s) are his little mousies. We have about a zillion at this point as they have a way of vanishing until the next time you move all the furniture and a zillion mousies means we can put this off, often for a month at a time. Libby likes them too, but she's obsessed with string and only plays with them intermittently ( Read more... ) -
"Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town" - Rape case in Texas
Last Thanksgiving an 11-year-old girl was gang raped by at least 18 men, ages "middle schoolers" to 27-years-old. The case came to light when one of the girl's classmates showed a cellphone video of the attack to a teacher. On the 8th, the New York Times published a story by James C. McKinley, Jr which is, um, rather more concerned with the ( Read more... ) -
Seamstress in Seattle
A friend is thinking about having a dress made for a wedding (not her own). Can anyone recommend a seamstress in the Seattle area? Plus size-friendly is, ahem, a plus. -
Last Alameda Ceili?
Dave said he went to the last Alameda Ceili? Is it moving or just...ending? -
Happiness is...
Happiness is that feeling you get after exercising, for me usually dancing but today it's swimming, that feeling that you're completely centred in your body, occupying it fully: fingertip to fingertip, head to toe. When your body says, "you can stretch me further, work me harder. Give me more ( Read more... ) -
Things to Do in London (part 1?)
Lifted in whole from an email sent by wechsler when I was planning my first visit to London:
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