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A recent e-mail asked how to deal with leading or trailing yarn-overs (YO's) when starting lace projects on double-pointed needles(dpn's). The problem: a YO as the first or last stitch on a dpn wants to slip off, plus, the needles themselves want to slip out.I'm guessing others have these problems too.The YO's in...
â D was still at her sleepover at the grandparents in Germany on Monday, so I could start the week with an early morning weight lifting session. â at 10 I went up to the studio to work on my half-timbered houses. and I made the first prototype of a new shaped card. â I worked in my studio the whole day until 7 in...
John Gruber is arguing that Apple is weakening its advantage over competitors by adding more ads into their operating systems: Appleâs competition is lousy with ads. Downright lousy. Apple seems to be choosing the route of âDonât like ads? Choose Apple, we shove fewer of them in your face.â Thatâs way less bracingly...
Yesterday, I published the last planned release of File Browser. It includes a few security fixes and a notice about the wind-down of the project. Alongside it, I announced that this was the last planned release and updated the repository so that itâs ready to be archived on September 1st. For many people this came...
When I ponder a brand like Lalique, I consider the bottles before their contents. How could I not? As a student of art history, I am well aware of RenĂ© Laliqueâs historically significant jewelry and glasswork. He was arguably the most versatile glass artist of the first half of the 20th century (he died in 1945),...
Shout out to my favorite L.A. bookstore, Lost Books (the entrance of which is pictured below), where I found a veritable treasure trove of erudite tomes â listed below in alphabetical order (by author): Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neuman (Norton, 2022). Full...
In his essay Civilisation & its DiscontÂents 1929, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) had analysed the aggressive cruelty that changed men into saÂvages. AftÂer HitÂler took power in Germany in 1933, as much as he recogÂnised these trends, Freud was reluctant to apply them to Vienna. Even when the Nazis burnt all the books...
I havenât been playing a whole lot of games lately. Over the past year I finished two titles on my PlayStation 4. The first was the narrative walking adventure Firewatch, and the second was the relaxing turn-based puzzle game Hitman Go. To finish things out, I took a trip down memory lane and played the raunchy...
Zbigniew Herbert begins his 1966 essay âMonsieur Montaigneâs Voyage to Italyâ with these words: âWhen a moment comes that my body will have only enough strength to fix the pillow under the head, I will have no choice but write a large piece of work, that is a book and not a collection of drafts, which will be...
If the clankers have you down, I recommend: read your favorites, write like that, discover new favorites, write and edit like that, rinse and repeat. It would seem, at this moment, only a human can produce liveliness by chaining words into language and narrative. Writing is how I build. Thatâs why I write. âThe...
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