Small Projects

I finished the last lingering project from this summer on the Friday. I had started a number of sweaters in June so that I could have the right projects on the needles for camp. See, for camp they want you to be working on something small that you can try out all of the …

5 Things You Should Never Spin Yarn From

1. Flax


2. Virgin Acrylic


3. Corn Husks


4. Dryer lint


5. Steel Wool

Computer Troubles(?)

One of the side benefits of finishing the novella edit effort this weekend was that it meant that I could now restart my computer without fear. (There was a file open that I didn't want to loose my place in, a minor thing, but none the less).

Now to the windows users …

5 things you can do in emacs that you really shouldn't.

1. Podcast.


2. Encrypt your Roommates hard drive.


3. Read the Newspaper.


4. Update your Facebook Profile.


5. Play World of Warcraft.

upgrades and funks

Though you probably won't notice it I upgraded the software that runs this blog last night, as part of my perverse geeky mission of this past sunday, and I think I've finally ironed out all of the kinks. The only evidence of this is the fact that I've removed categories …

Open Letter to Academic Database Providers

Dear [Provider of Academic Article Databases],

Article databases are really one of the best things that has happened to academic research in the last, ten or fifteen years. It makes accessing research painless and efficient, and the more available research is, the more …

5 things your cat thinks about your knitting.

1. Come on, a hobby that you need both hands for that you don't need to look at? Foul!


2. What's with the sharp sticks in the cat toy?


3. __________.


4. That's a poor replacement for fur.


5. Finally, we have something in common.

no na-no-wri-mo

I think the hardest time to be a wannabe writer is November. But, you ask, November is when NaNoWriMo is, isn't that the best time to be a wannabe writer? Well maybe, and I think NaNo is a great project that is I think a really great thing, lets not misunderstand this …

Five Reasons to Build a "Hackintosh"

1. You really don't like ubuntu.


2. You think beige is the new black.


3. You don't have the balls for FreeBSD.


4. You don't have any concept of the value of your own time.


5. You miss your 286's boot disks.

Thanksgiving

So today is a writing day, because, I say so. Though given how closely the 10th of December is coming (and my first graduate application due date), I will admit and allow that I might not get to spend the whole day writing what I want to write.

This is something worth …

Mars Orbit

I write science fiction, and truth be told, and I think the space opera form has life in it yet. While my last story was set on Mars and didn't have a lot of interplanetary travel, this project does. Mostly because I want to cover a long period of time in the stories …

No NaNo Follow Up

So, Christina, wrote a comment (thanks christina!) regarding my little tirade on NaNoWriMo, that basically said, the project might allow (if I'm reading this right) for non or new writers to get a more clear understanding about what "being a writer" is, and maybe make …

A Million Words of Crap

So there's this saying that floats around, and there might be science fiction lore that surrounds this, but it says, basically that every writer has about a million words of crap in them that they just have to get out. After you write the first million, the thought is …

Five Knit Stitches you don't want to Eat

1. Honeycomb


2. Meaty Cable Twist


3. Twisted Backwords Loop


4. Brioche


5. Mock Ribs

Black Friday List

It's black friday and while I'm not hopping or anything like that. I have gotten some things done that I thought I'd share with you. So I think a good old fashion list was in order:

• I did some updating to the tychoish.com theme. There's now a tag cloud and tag support …

Other Sport Sweaters

I posted pictures yesterday of a sweater that I had just finished.

It's a jaunty little number, and I'm glad that I'll have it in the pile, even if I do have to do a little bit of extreme blocking first. This is probably my best design to-date. Of course there are …

Five Knitting Memes That I Still Don't Get

1. Clapotis


2. Jaywalker Socks


3. Twinkle Sweaters


4. Fingerless Gloves


5. Novelty Yarn

(In Fairness, my complaint about fingerless gloves is not that I don't think they're useful, just that I cannot imagine having the tolerance to make gloves and then not finish the fingers. In …

Geek Speak

tycho: hey

andy: sup

tycho: not much

andy: fun stuff

andy: bought a 320Gb external seagate and trying to get all my mp3s transferred but its not cooperating

tycho:

tycho: I am downloading xcode tools so I can get mac ports to work so that I can upgrade ruby so that I …

Babel-18

I guess I didn't have time to mention this the other day, but I finished reading Babel-17 by Samuel Delany. It was great, and I quite liked the way that it wrapped up.

I posted earlier about how I had the perpetual feeling of not getting the story, but I think it …

of LaTeX

I finished the long awaited first round of edits for the novella I wrote earlier this year, Knowing Mars, this morning. I've sent out a draft (after some failures of my email sending ability) to 6 initial readers. Some or all of whom read this website. (Thanks folks, …