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  • Here is the first completed sleeve for Pipes. I ended up doing a very conventional sleeve. After all, there are reasons that a particular type of sleeve becomes conventional: comfort, ease of movement, attractiveness. W…

  • This book, Stumbling on Happiness, is the one I mentioned before as one that I had just peeped into before wrapping it as a gift for someone interested in psychology. I keep up on the research about happiness pretty well…

  • I woke up this morning at 4:00 when the clock radio began blaring "Jump into bed, cover up your head, 'cause Santa Claus comes tonight!"This is not the right song for today.The right song for today, as I think we all kn…

  • The black spot to the left is in fact the sweater I am knitting of Knit Picks new yarn, Telemark. I have given it a name: Pipes.I used to be opposed to the naming of sweaters, finding it a little precious, but now that I…

  • The Empress and I were chatting about events of the day -- probably much the same conversations you have been having. What exactly is the difference between a plan and a plot? If the White House categorically denies some…

  • Here is Erin, with the blue bit. In fact, this is the section of the blue bit with the error in it.It is three rows down -- or at least the beginning is. Three rows before this I made an error. I discovered it, of course…

  • Richard Dawkins is one of my favorite science writers, but in this book he gives in to pique. You can just hear him losing his patience with the sheer innumeracy all around him. "Do the math, people!" he is plaintively c…

  • Before you make the effort to read this, I should warn you that when I told it to Chanthaboune, she said, "Have you noticed how hard it is sometimes to recognize the interesting bits?" When I explained why it was really …

  • This naughty knitting blogger (http://woollywarbler.typepad.com/) is making something extremely cool and amazing and does not say where the pattern comes from, what yarn she is using, or anything else which will allow m…

  • While cooling down on the treadmill, I found in the ads in the back of the Simithsonian the following website: http://deadmentellnotales.com/locker.shtml They boasted that they had the best selection of music, games, and…

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