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Thirteen Geeky Knitting Projects, 20th
(I was going to write this last night while watching an hour of Friends reruns but a bizarre issue with the Bad Behavior Wordpress plugin and some blacklisting site kept me from uploading and then accessing my own account from my own computer. But it took me 4½ hours to figure out that because the error said that my computer had been sending out spam mail and that was why I was blacklisted and that if I had any questions I could email the web admin and gave my own email address to contact. So, I updated my McAffee and installed Google’s free Spy Doctor and ran both and came up clean, which I knew I would because I am an IT geek who obsesses about that sort of thing. Finally at 11:30pm a new link showed up in my Google search for answers. Someone had just posted an hour before on the Wordpress.org forum that they also couldn’t get into their site with the same error and someone had replied with a link to the Bad Behavior Blog which explained what happened. Grrrrrrrrr! Wasted my whole Wednesday night.
And then today after I spent forever writing this up, my server went down and I couldn’t save it…for over an hour.)
Whenever I start a new hobby, I go a little overboard searching for future possible projects. The nice thing about knitting as opposed to counted cross-stitch, which I did through my 20’s, is that there are a lot of free patterns out there on the Internet and a lot of people who are willing to share their ideas. Plus, as it turns out, there are also a lot of geeky guys and gals just like me who have merged the hobby with their eccentric personalities. Some of these made me laugh out loud. Some of them are just too fun to resist.
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- Published:
- 05 Dec 2007 / 09:22 PM
- Category:
- Knitting, Thursday Thirteen
- Tags:
- coffee • Daleks • dice bag • Dr. Who • Eeyore • Firefly • Friends • geek • Harry Potter • hat • Knitting • Piglet • Princess Leia • R2D2 • recycle • scarf • Space Invaders • Star Wars • Thursday Thirteen • tote bag • Winnie the Pooh
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- 29 Comments »
Download Discontent
I finished listening to Salem’s Lot via audio-book on Thursday and since then I’ve been hunting for something to fill the void for my commute. I hate driving but discovering audio-books has made it bearable these last few months. In fact, the last two books — Land of Lincoln and Salem’s Lot — actually had me looking forward to the commute, anxious to find out what was going to happen next. So, now I’m ready for something new and I checked my “To Read” list.
That is where the frustration began. Ninety-five percent of the books on my list do not even have audio-book versions and the ones that do only have abridged versions. Why would anyone want an abridged version of a book? I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to get the whole story, wouldn’t want to relish every morsel the author has carefully chosen. To me, it’s like watching the Harry Potter movies that have been chopped up for time’s sake but in my opinion they’ve left out important information and clues that J. K. Rowling meant for us to dwell on. There wasn’t a single scene in her books that wasn’t carefully crafted to share something important about the story not just of that particular book but the entire story arc of the seven books. I hated that the movie version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire completely left out Dobby and the house elves, but particularly Dobby. To me, you lose something in an abridged version of a book so I can’t understand why anyone would want to read or listen to one.
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- Published:
- 12 Nov 2007 / 06:04 PM
- Category:
- Book Talk, Ramblings, T.V. Brain Drain
- Tags:
- audiobook • Civil War • commute • Dead Zone • Dr. Who • Harry Potter • iPod • J. K. Rowling • Margaret Atwood • Stephen King
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- 5 Comments »
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