Knitting

And really, who isn’t?

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Whereas I am a comment whore and

Whereas I have received more than 1000 comments since this blog’s inception and

Whereas I am immensely grateful for every comment I get and

Whereas I am declaring today Knitting Interrupted’s official Delurk Day,

I am happy to announce a comment contest!

Say hello via comment by 10/13 at 11:59. You’ll be entered into a random drawing for this lovely skein of Yarn Pirate in the June Bug colorway.

(from the Booty Club)

Every comment I’ve ever received on all posts since January 22, 2007 will be entered into the drawing, so if you’ve never commented before, now’s your chance. Anonymous comments and those from family will not be eligible (sorry Mom and TAS). I will select the winner by random integer generation and make every good-faith attempt to notify by email, as well as make the announcement in a blog post on 10/14/2008 at 9 am. Winner will have one week to claim the prize. After one week, I will draw a new winner.

Thanks to all my regular readers, and those that pass through.

Knitting

How I Purl

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Part two in a series. This is how I purl.

Knitting

How I Knit

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All the cool kids are posting videos showing how they knit, purl, crochet, and spin. Even though I’m not one of the cool kids, I thought I’d jump on in anyway. This is how I knit.

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My New Favorite Internet Game

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Update–> my friend Rima is right. Yahoo’s Babel Fish is WAY more entertaining!

Put some English text into Google’s translator and translate it to Japanese. Then copy and paste the resulting Japanese characters back into the translator and translate form Japanese to English. Awesome!

for example:

Google’s English translation of several types of text to be translated into Japanese. Back to copy and paste the result of the translation into Japanese characters as a form translated into Japanese and English. Awesome!
3 am Epiphany · nanowrimo

An Agreement

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NaNoWriMo 2008 is fast approaching. Have you signed up yet? In preparation, my TAS and I have agreed to do some writing exercises together in the month of October. We both have the very excellent book of writing excercises The 3am Epiphany, so each Monday in October I will choose by random number generator a number that corresponds to the number of an excercise in the book. We’ll spend the week writing it and post the results of our efforts on our respective blogs the following Friday.

Want to play along? Get yourself a copy of The 3am Epiphany* and let me know if you want to join in by leaving a comment here by Sunday 10/5. And spread the word, will ya? If there’s enough interest, I’ll do an email list and/or Mr. Linky thing to get everybody writing and reading and practicing for our Olympic event–novelling. Sound like fun?

*Don’t have it? Don’t want to fork over the cash? I totally understand. Check your local library. Also, you could always take note of the assignment number and head over to Borders or B&N and take a peek at the exercise for that week.

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Channel Surfing Tuesday

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Because we need a break from “financial Armageddon” here at Chez Interrupted:

Here’s a great video of 24 hours of world wide air traffic. Hypnotic.

Here’s a funny video that asks “What if the Sarah Palin story were a Disney movie?”

Finally, people have started putting music to the Ninja Cat video I shared last week. This is the best one I’ve seen.

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Where has the House of Reps’ website gone?

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Update 2–> nope, gone again. Hrm…

Update–>it’s back (sort of). Yay?

What has happened to the US House of Representatives‘ website? It seems to have gone dark.

Am I the only one who can’t access it?

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love (1)

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I recently spotted this adorable lace-up sheep from Plan Toys. I am going to ask Santa to stuff it in my stocking.

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More Philosophy Phriday

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I wish I had more time to do a thoughtful blog post about this article from Scientific American. But I don’t, so I’ll send you over there to read the article (it has to do with the mind-body problem as discussed last week and is a clue to my own opinion about the “solution”) and invite you to leave your thoughts about it here in the comments.

Have a great weekend, ya’ll! I hope to have some knitting content for you next week, including WIPs and a series of videos!