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There's a community called livelongnmarry that is doing a fandom-themed auction which is raising money for the fight against the California initiative to invalidate the same-sex marriages which have already taken place in that state.
Someone who I read occasionally for interesting anime commentary offered to critique a manuscript for legal plausibility, and I ( Read more... ) -
Knitting it up when I'm going down?
The title of this entry is singing to me to the tune of "Love in an Elevator", and is earworming me every time I scroll past it.
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That's Dr. ChemGrrl to you.
All done! It went really well.
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Stem Cells
This is most of an email I just sent to my mom:
"It's not often that you hear about research before it's even come out in a journal and think to yourself "that work is going to win the Nobel Prize"
This is one of those times.Basically what it means is that, let's say you have leukemia and need a bone marrow transplant. Rather than trying to find ( Read more... ) -
RSS
Anyone on here who uses Bloglines or some other syndecation thing, I think I've finally got a very basic, functional RSS-thing for going for Nanopant Dance. If you paste the URL of this link into your thingy, it *should* work. If you have a paid account you can do a syndecation thing on LJ, but I don't, so that's that ( Read more... ) -
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(This is pretty much verbatim from an entry at my regular blog, but I want to share and I know y'all don't go over there so much.)
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Sweater spinning, lace spinning
Below the cut: some show-and-tell yarns--laceweight merino, laceweight silk, sportweight Shetland. A little lace swatch. Some fiber pictures. A lot of talking.
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Below the cut: A hat knit from handspun, the first project where I put some thought into the yarn design before spinning. Some talk about the spinning and yarn-design process.
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