Archive for January, 2007
just nod if you can hear me
I wonder if something’s wrong with fanfiction .net. So far I’ve gotten a grand total of zero reviews of the new Holmes story, as opposed to five in the first day (and a total of 10) for Watson’s Task. It could also possibly be because I gave it a T (teen) rating instead of a […]
pleasant morning
This morning was so nice. They were holding the company All-Hands half-yearly meeting in a facility walking distance from our place. The meeting started at 9:45 and buses left from work at 9 to get people there. (Dutch workdays start later than in the US – we usually get in around 8 and that’s earlier […]
The Ministry’s Case
My Sherlock Holmes / Potterverse story is up here. This all happens about a hundred years before Harry birth, so none of the characters from the HP books are alive yet (with the exception of Nicholas Flamel, but he’s not in it). It’s a sequel to Watson’s Task. I’ve rated this one T (teen) for […]
some Finished Objects
The gloves for Rudder: The nice thing about these finger up gloves is that first you’re knitting fingers, and each one goes quickly so you feel like you’re accomplishing something, and then you put them all together … which also goes quickly. Pattern is here. The hat for me: I have to say this is […]
sweater vision
It’s snowing again, actually more like sleet. This morning the fountain in front of work was frozen over – it’s used to recirculate water from the fab, so isat least 3′ deep and very large. Our plans are to visit Delft tomorrow and row Sunday; I don’t mind cancelling plans due to bad weather, especially […]
short skirts, long hair, and lengthening years
Our Dutch teacher made an interesting comment the other day. She complimented me on the short kilt I was wearing, then said, “I stopped wearing miniskirts at 45”. I said, “That’s one thing I learned from the guitar teacher I had in college, Linda Cohen. She was really old [to me then], maybe all of […]
identity: mistaken and placement of
My new hat has unusual side effects. Rudder had a late meeting last night, so I took the bus. I wore my hair all pulled back in a ponytail yesterday, so no hair was showing in front of the hat. As I was walking home in the cold night, I passed a (presumably) Muslim woman […]
Brr. (I like brrr)
It was cold this morning. -5C according to our car, or about 24F. Toasty for Minnesotans or New Englanders, but a bit nippy for someone who’s spent a decade in Arizona. Fortunately today I had a nice warm hat to wear into work. Mine’s maybe a little wider than the one in the picture or […]
all the usual stuff
Funny – even though it’s been unseasonably warm here, the weather did change when winter hit. It’s been cloudier than it was back in October, November and early December, without the Rembrandt quality to the light that I wrote about earlier. We are supposed to get some cooler weather this week, and maybe some snow […]
not so much a book review as a relative commentary
I wrote earlier about weight-lifting, but made this a separate entry as the subjects were so disparate. I was reading The Encyclopedia of the English Language and Anthony Burgess’s A Dead Man in Deptford at the same time, which didn’t work out well; apparently linguistics and Burgess use similar parts of my brain and neither […]