Mūlamadhyamikakārikāḥ Translation Project: Podcast 18:2

My sister has accused this of being, in fact, a knitting blog, and I have to say, I have yet more knitting stuff to report.

This past Thursday, the campus closed for a staff development day, at which a workshop on, of all things, knitting, was held. I went, and although the class was meant for [...]

Hmm. I’m contemplating knitting a version of this scarf. Based on my calculations and the height of the character (6+feet; I checked with the creators), it’s about 10’ in length. I think if I want to replicate the smooth look, I would also need to felt it. Plus there’s the matter of the fringe.

If I [...]

Note: As usual, apologies for the low image quality.

As Guido at It’s a Purl, Man has pointed out, floral knitting accessories are not conducive to masculine knitting. I’ve been working on finding alternatives: a tote bag from a conference I went to last december (too small, too much velcro, tote bags suck), my gigantic trager [...]

Ah, excellent. BlogZot remains a cool marketing practice, and SubEthaEdit is a pretty great progam. (One of my favorite text editors.)

macZOT!
1. SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys
2. BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com
3. MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software

Wow. This weekend was shockingly productive.

I finished Dan’s scarf
I installed refeed
I put together an MMKCast (AAC)
I saw Brick
I wrote some stuff
I figured out, more or less, how to pick up stitches for fingers on my fingerless mittens, opening the way for proper fingerless gloves. Woo!

Clearly I ate my wheaties. Or something.

Brick was quite satisfying. Not as startlingly brilliant as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (which is clearly my new standard for viewer satisfaction), but I came in to Brick with extremely high expectations.

Brick is not an innovative film, at all—it’s pure, classic noir. (Note: I’m only interested in the writing here, and to a lesser extent, [...]