I took a little hiatus there — if anyone’s still paying attention :-), here are some tidbits that may amaze or amuse you.
Bob DuCharme continues to feed me craft-related links. Here’s an article on CNN.com called “Pundits and knitters find common ground in Web logs”. Yeah, it’s two months old, so sue me…
I really need to get off my backside and install something to kill the trackback spam. Mostly they’re boring, but one came in today that I thought was kind of funny. It was on my old Ripping the X off her varsity sweater… post. The text of the trackback is simply “Ripping the X off her …”, and — wait for it — it leads to a bondage-related pr0n site. That’s not what I originally had in mind…
John Cowan’s Recycled Knowledge blog continues to delight. In this post he notes that authentic and effendi share a Greek root. Cool…
I got Eli the moby version of this Opteron workstation for our 15th wedding anniversary. Ah, geeks in love. We haven’t come close to using its awesome capacity yet, but we’ve noticed that its rendering of the “Matrix” screensaver is blazingly fast, so that’s good at least. :-) I think the old gift guidelines are out of date. In the lists of “traditional” and “modern” anniversary gifts you find things like cotton, crystal, leather, and watches. Maybe we need the 21st century version (or maybe we need a fresh list every year, given that the singularity is approaching and all): wifi, iPods, workstations, plasma TVs…
