I’ve been trying to take more pictures in black and white lately, partly because I’ve always liked black and white, and partly for the practice. It’s noticeably more difficult to take an interesting black and white picture than a comparably interesting color picture, because of course you’re trying to convey as much meaning with less [...]

Note that this woman is attempting to break a record set by another woman. That’s interesting to me, since this seems like a characteristically masculine form of bravado/stupidity. Not to say that I disapprove in any way…

Woman attempts to break Guinness record by eating ghost chilis – Slashfood

It works great. The handle contains some kind of spring-loaded goodness so that energy builds slowly and is released suddenly. Sort of like shooting your paperwork with a crossbow.

The loading process is a little weird:

PaperPro – a photoset on Flickr

Just watched the pilot. It’s not bad. I was into it the entire time, the performances were all fine (and I like that they went with a cast more or less devoid of big names), and there were some neat tricks (the shirts, the way scene elements appeared and disappeared in response to the narration) [...]

I went with my sister to Peet’s and Smart Alec’s today. I happened to have my knitting with me (I’m currently working on a sleeve for my first sweater). It prompted a little more than usual interest today—not sure why. A couple of older women at Smart Alec’s complimented me on my knitting and also [...]

Jim Moore points to uses of OPML in the classroom and blueskies an application for link sharing by students.

Amyloo: Friday, February 23, 2007

After a long and utterly tedious saga, which if I haven’t shared with you already I certainly shan’t trouble you about now, I finally received my 10” US7 DPNs. I’ve been waiting for these so that I can finally start work on my first sweater.

(I really can’t use circulars. I hold my needles in a [...]