I tried to resist the urge, but I couldn’t. With the sudden onset of some real winter weather (complete with snow and temperatures that stay below freezing), I began to look for a nose warming solution. Yes, you can knit nose warmers (they look roughly like part of a cat or mouse costume), but they [...]

Well, the new version of WordPress is out, but I have some mixed feelings on how “release ready” it really is. They did away with the old Links manager, replacing it with a Blogroll manager. Then they tell us that the Blogroll section is really the Bookmarks manager and create a new function to access [...]

As a public service to the general blog reading public, I have recategorized all my posts and hidden all the posts I wrote before my senior year of college. You really don’t need to see anything older than that. You really really don’t. Promise. There’s some plugin that will change WordPress’s categories to actual tags [...]

I’m back to doing some light crochet again, largely because it just works so well for 3D. I picked up a dice bag in progress, only to discover that I no longer remembered which hook size I had used. Surprise, I crochet just as tightly as I knit. Since I had just finished the bottom [...]

A while back, a coworker invited me to an eggplant themed potluck. Since I’m pretty bad at cooking and had no idea what to do with an eggplant, I had to think quickly to come up with a hostess gift. The answer came to me as I stared at a large pile of purple and [...]

It occurs to me, somewhat belatedly, that I really need to learn to take pictures of the things I made BEFORE I give them away. There’s nothing so awkward as telling a friend that I need their presents back because I need to take pictures. It gets more difficult when these friends are in other [...]

My dad and my brother, all fired up from what turned out to be a temporary network failure (go, go wireless), disappeared into the basement with a bundle of carpeting, an armful each of wood, and a hammer and came back with an assembled “cat perch”. It’s higher than my couch. Within minutes, Sasha found [...]