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...I think I was supposed to be somewhere about seven hours ago. Ah, well. :)
The shawl is done, which also meant getting off my ample rump and eBaying the yarn in my "experimental subjects" bin to clear room for some actual production stock, now that I've got two of my samples available for publicity shots. (And discovered afresh that I really can't count to 5 without getting distracted, apparently, because I blew an extra hour going back and revising all the listings to add care instructions, which I had forgotten to do on the initial listing.) Now going to tie my arms behind my back so I can't try to knit anything for the next few days, and go watch some tv...
- New Thing Learned for 9 February: Science has evolved a circular crochet hook. As near as I can make out, it's for something along the lines of Tunisian crochet, which I grasp just well enough to see where this device would be an improvement over the straight double-ended hook I've got somewhere in my collection. [Source: someone brought one to the lunchtime knitting circle.]
- New Thing Learned for 10 February: Soy silk yarn is a byproduct of the tofu manufacturing process. I really don't want to know the specifics. [Source: display at spinning demonstration.]
- New Thing Learned for 11 February: Bulldogs and other breeds of similar plan were produced by exploiting a gene complex similar to that which is responsible for achondroplasia in humans. [Source: Animal Planet, "the Wolf Within".]
- New Thing Learned for 12 February: The matter at question in Plessy v. Ferguson was, like the Rosa Parks action sixty years later, a deliberate attempt to call into public question the segregation of transit, in this case the system of separate railway cars. This is the sort of detail we ought to be learning in the schools, y'know. [Source: American Experience, "New Orleans".]
- New Thing Learned for 13 February: Peter O'Toole really, really wanted the title role in TRON. And if I have to have this mental image stuck in my head, so do you, dammit. [Source: DVD commentary track.]
- New Thing Learned for 14 February: The fins that stick out of a submarine's "tower" (the bits labelled "foreplanes" in this graphic) act like the ailerons on an airplane's wing to create lift or drag, affecting the sub's course along the up/down axis through the water as a plane moves through air. [Source: Science Channel, "Prophets of Science Fiction".]
- New Thing Learned for 15 February: Speaking of improbable casting calls, the part of Genghis Khan in The Conqueror was originally written for Marlon Brando. Just in case you didn't think that John Wayne was improbable enough... [Source: Discovery Channel, "Best Evidence: John Wayne's Death".]
The shawl is done, which also meant getting off my ample rump and eBaying the yarn in my "experimental subjects" bin to clear room for some actual production stock, now that I've got two of my samples available for publicity shots. (And discovered afresh that I really can't count to 5 without getting distracted, apparently, because I blew an extra hour going back and revising all the listings to add care instructions, which I had forgotten to do on the initial listing.) Now going to tie my arms behind my back so I can't try to knit anything for the next few days, and go watch some tv...