Saltwater Purls

Pity the fool...

who arrives at the party late. I was about to write this post about how far down the list for Ravelry I was and  to bemoan the loss of another of my favourite bloggers (I knew they were all hiding in Ravelry where I can't visit them)...when I recieved an invitation. Well now I say pity the fool because I have been wasting valuable time learning about the system...egads I even learnt about blog feeds and discovered there are more people reading my blog than I thought. So I'm saltwaterpurls on Ravelry...I still haven't gotten through uploading all my 'blog' FO projects, I'm have input 2 of my 5 baskets of stash and about 1/2 my books. I haven't touched my needle collection. I'm still learning...for example if I have knit a pattern than isn't in Ravelry how do I input it?

8 random things about me

Kim tagged me so here goes...

1. I am actually a US citizen (I have dual nationality as I was born in the US although my family are NZ citizens).
2. I didn't know I was one until at age 21 I applied for a J1 visa to visit the US and was denied...it is against the law for a US citizen to have a visa.
3. I had a J2 visa when I was 17 and spent a year in NY.
4. I was threatened with deportation from the US when my visa expired by one day and I had to travel back through the US to get to NZ (when my mum asked if being born in the US would help, he said he'd throw me in jail instead if I tried to leave the airport).
5. I can't burp. I taught my brother to but I can't do it myself, consequently I hate carbonated drinks as the gas just sits in my stomach.
6. I got my first siamese cat (Ming) when I was 5 years old.
7. I have been  owned by 7 siamese cats
8. Three of those siamese had names beginning with V...Vashti, Vincent and Viscount

Happy blogiversary to me

Well actually it was Sunday but I've been stewing over things and I think today I know what to say. I began this blog two years ago mostly to document my knitting progress but also as a writing exercise. Most of my writing is scientific which can best be described as dry writing with all style and personality removed (you can put it back in when you're famous, but you have to do a number of years in the trenches to get to that point). I suffer from writers block and I saw 'stream of conciousness' writing as a way to loosen that block...the block being the idea in my head that refuses to be put into words. As I've mentioned before I love to see people take the same pattern and by changing yarn or making small changes reinterpret a pattern (although it is also useful to see what they struggled with/pattern errata etc). I wanted to show the world my interpretation of a pattern.

Can 'o Spamland

Ever actually read your spam. I got a good one yesterday.

He didnt know, but the fact that he had felt almost no pain during the week following the amputation was a pretty clear indicator of just how close, perhaps. Not more than a day or two after they left, Miss Charlotte Evelyn-Hyde of Storping-on-Firkill had been found dead on the back lawn of her home, Cove oBirches. A bee could have been the cause of Miss Evelyn-Hydes unfortunate live burial; it even made sense, since it had happened in mid-spring; in the garden, to boot

Perhaps indeed! These guys made art of it...

The colon

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Find your own pose!

Question is what colon are they referring to...

A punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a quotation, an explanation, an example, or a series and often after the salutation of a business letter.

or...

The section of the large intestine extending from the cecum to the rectum.

Wouldn't it make more sense if the pose was called quotation marks? Talking about colon snoozing...kitty pi appears to be a success...

About Ingrid

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Ingrid!

1. The eye of an ostrich is bigger than Ingrid.
2. Research indicates that Ingrid will be attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
3. During the reign of Peter the Great, any Russian nobleman who chose to wear Ingrid had to pay a special Ingrid tax.
4. The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter is made entirely of Ingrid.
5. A sixteenth century mathematician lost his nose in a duel over his love for Ingrid, and wore a silver replacement for the rest of his life!
6. Ingrid is incapable of sleep.
7. Ingrid can eat up to four kilograms of insects in a single night.
8. Over 2000 people have now climbed Ingrid, with roughly ten percent dying on the way down.
9. The Eskimos have over fifty words for Ingrid.
10. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching Ingrid.

I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem

I like number 6 because it is true right now. I don't know how this program works but it is amusing

Waaaah, it must be because no one likes me...

I've been removed from the Michigan Knits and Knitting Scientists rings. When this happened I know not as I don't normally go checking that I am still linked....that would be weird. Has this happened because I didn't blog regularly for almost a month? Has this happened because I don't talk about Michigan enough or because I talked about global warming and how it IS happening despite the strong will and beliefs of the conservative right? Am I being paranoid and is it just something that happened between typepad and ringsurf? I prefer to jump to the conclusion it must be me...just like how my monday night knitting group moved to the other Sweetwaters over the summer and never told me. Scott has to be right, they hate me because I knit twice as fast as they do...although it could also have something to do with me appearing in the local rag photographed red-handed with the Tuesday night knitting group, thereby betraying them.

Anxious scientist looking for medication in Michigan...

The Banner

I believe the problem with my banner was that it was in CMYK and should have been in RGB...which it became when I turned it into a GIF...it seems like Safari is a different beast to the other web browers.