Just a Tease

What am I up to this afternoon? Just a little experiment. Which may or may not have anything to do with Murphy-Goode Winery. I've never used my camera to take video before. I think it works pretty well, except that I have NO battery life. Get it in one take, or else, I guess.

What I didn't realize at the time was that the Society Garlic plants I was sitting in DO start to smell like garlic after they've been crushed.



No, the video doesn't actually show anything. Yes, I am amused by it for some reason. That is all.

Personal Websites

Hmm, this post from Zeldman is a perfect echo of what I've been thinking, both while redesigning my website (no, it's not finished/visible yet) and musing on the overwhelming number of web channels we possess.

Or perhaps I should say that my thoughts echo what Zeldman was thinking almost a year ago.

I may be late to his particular party, but I'm certainly not the only one. As I've been scouting other people's sites I've been feeling like everyone is still putting their blog front and center. I've chosen not to, and this makes me feel better about it. Almost as if I knew where things were going.

Most of my links will point OUT, to web apps, sites, and projects that I'm involved with. That's the nature of the web these days. My site will only be a collection point. Whether or not I feel comfortable being scattered all over the internet, that's how it IS. And I think it's right for the site to reflect that.

Internet Addiction

Uh, Snowcrash anyone? This is rather unsettling.

Bootcamp Cure for Web Obsession

It followed me home, I swear

Bucket caught me playing with some new yarn this morning. I clearly have start-itis. In fairness, I would have been working on one of my many in-progress projects if I had remembered to BRING any of them with me to his house. But the only thing I brought was the Slytherin scarf to finish (can't believe I started that all the way back in April), and it's currently blocking and there's not much else I can do until it dries.

(Yes, I know the books are over, but my scarf was 95% done and it seems silly not to complete it. It will be a good "I have a sore throat and am not leaving the house" scarf. What? I totally wear scarves around the house when I don't feel well.)

HP Finished at Last

Not the scarf, unfortunately (I'm 2 stripes away), but the series. I finished reading it last night, several days behind most of my acquaintance.

I found this review to be a good one, and only somewhat spoilerish: Harry Potter's Last Adventure

It is most amusing for the following commentary on the Potterverse at large (not a spoiler at all, so read away):
"Must Rowling insist on making evil people short, fat or ugly, or all three? ... I know there are exceptions — Tom Riddle was once slitheringly handsome, before he lost his nose — but it's not an appealing trend. Short, fat, ugly people have enough problems without being evil, too."

I would make that last sentence a sig file if I thought I could get away with it.

I do have one spoiler-ish thing I want to say, so here it is (highlight to read):

Am I the only one who was somewhat disappointed with this book? It was... kinda clunky. And the pacing was uneven. I don't *think* this is the influence of the Potter Backlash talking... I just read some of it and was like, "huh? That makes no sense." I wasn't tearing through it at breakneck speed like many people, so maybe others just didn't notice. Or maybe I was being more critical about the last effort, as it was the end. But I don't think so.

Also, the epilogue was lame.

Lokmonster

Loki is really much happier about life now that his course of antibiotics is over... He really thought I was waging a jihad on him or something (a la Eddie Izzard).

Now he lays on my lap all snuggly and purr like. Until I start doing things like trying to catch him on the webcam:


And then he just gets that really miserable expression, "why do you hate me so?"

He's quite a handsome cat, really, it's just that he hates having his picture taken. Or being restrained in any way. So I don't actually have any pictures of him when he's not looking cross.

Also

Never in a million years would I have expected to be playing with a web cam.

It came built in to my new Macbook Pro. I can't seem to help it. Everything on this computer is just so damned shiny!

And I'm using it to take pictures of KNITTING. My god.

Confession Time

I am even more of a nerd than you realize.

Can you guess what this is?
















(but check out my nifty stitch marker! I've had them for ages but this is the maiden voyage for knitting in the round (not just using round needles) for me. I am also working from a pattern, another first.)

Oh wait. It's not a confession unless I actually tell you. I'm making a *mumble Harry Potter scarf mumble*. Well, I always said I was going to make one, and with the final book coming out in a few months... I'm running out of time.

Yes, those are Slytherin House colors, but only because they have the best ones. I'd have made a Hufflepuff scarf, but OMG I'd look like a bumble bee.

(See, I told you I was a nerd!)