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just spent a triumphant 30 minutes at the DMV, got thru it all, nice clerk, many many forms (eight or nine) and now some handsome new loon license plates! champagne looms...
Chainsawing.
Our next five prime numbers on offer are 60013, 60017, 60029, 60037 and 60041.
Boom. First shoe dropped per NYT and NBC. FWIW.
Damn, missed 60017….
You people left a prime number post go overnight? This thread is slipping.
Laser cataract surgery coming up this morning.
both eyes in one shot? Best o'luck!
They only do one eye at a time. This is the right eye, which is far worse than the left. The left eye is optional, later.
The right eye has not been legal for driving. The left eye is legal. So I guess technically, I needed to wear a eye patch when driving. Aarrgh.
Officially in the clear. Full team made it, too!
as the Brits say, a dilate and a dollar short.
Y’all hear about the guy that got sent to the hospital with a peekaboo injury?
They sent him to the ICU.
Did you hear my buddy just invented a new catheter out of a 10 gauge knitting needle? I don’t know who he expects to market it to, the Nazis maybe?
I did not know there is a difference! My last attempt to put needle to thread was in mrs Howe’s (who was too cool for school) 4th grade Art Class when I tried to knit a rendition of the White House when it was being burned by the Brits in 1812.. Mrs Howe took away my project after I had blasted through two balls of red 🧶 (true). That was kind of it as far as knitting needles go, then it was back to eating paste on a double-dare.
Deepest bluest. My hat is like a sharks fin!
horrific rainy cold day, so the priorities are to get the dog to poop, then clean out the kennel now that most of the snow is gone (many big brown mounds to tend to) then I'll apply the splendid Fiskars tool to the 70 ft pine tree lying in the yard. Hard not to get excited about the day.
Dodged another round of tornados in TN last night. Up 'til 3:30 this morn watching the TV weather nerds play with their cool radar toys. Two confirmed tornados in abutting counties.
There is a difference. In UK sizes, the bigger the number the smaller the needle. In US sizes the smaller the number the smaller the needle which leads to there being sizes of 0, 00, 000, 0000, and crazily enough 00000. Canada just uses millimeters, no sizes.
So, back to the catheter question, a UK size 10 knitting needle is 3.25mm in diameter and a US size 10 knitting needle is 6mm in diameter.
Pulled in at 12:04 for today’s noon check-in. For road warrior performance on this latest journey, I give myself an A.
Bostondevil's LTE Knitting Quiz (answers to all questions have been previously posted by Bostondevil in this thread.)
1) What is the difference between knitting needle sizes in the US versus the UK?
2) In knitting terminology, what do the following terms mean: SABLE, Tink, Frogging, the Boyfriend Curse?
3) What is the name of the website where all the knitters congregate to share their collective knowledge?
4) What are the three kinds of knitting needles?
5) What kind of knitting needles are typically used to knit socks?
6) Name one person who is famous for knitting.
7a) When the US Olympic Committee sued knitters for engaging in an activity known as the Knitting Olympics, what was the response of the knitters?
7b) What were the rules of the Knitting Olympics?
Bonus Question (I think I've posted the answer to this but I'm not positive): On the knitting website that is the answer to question 3, there is a much, much, much longer thread than the LTE but with a similar goal called The Very Longest Thread. What is that thread's nickname?
Well, #6 is obviously BostonDevil...or Miss Marple.
First answer to #6 is BostonDevil.
Did Rosie Grier knit or do needlepoint?
ETA - both plus crochet
Is #5 Circular?
Types of needles - regular, double ended, and circular
UK needles get smaller as the gauge number increases and US is the opposite.
I will provide answers to the quiz sometime tomorrow to give everyone a chance to answer what they can.
I know old school Disney has a few issues but I do love it.
You know you're right that was the War of 1814, just after the War of 1812. (By the way the 1812 Overture, in E♭ major, as you I'm sure YOU know, cause, well the dating thing, commemorates the successful Russian defense against Napoleon I's invading Grande Armée in 1812. Globally 1812 was just a damn busy year. So in 1812, the Brits clearly took a rain check.)
I meant to the knitting quiz - I'm not sure about anything else. Is Ebola acting up again somewhere? That's the only deadly virus that FOXNews cares about, as far as I know.
Just googled, it's Marburg - of the Ebola family, not likely to spread to the US but much deadlier than covid.
In case anyone was wondering what bliss looks like.
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Not a good start to the day when you wake up and find out someone you have gone to church with for 40 years has died from a massive heart attack while in the hospital for chest pains.
I have 10 more "thanks, but no thanks" emails to send out to actors who were not cast. Hardest part of directing. I hate it.
1) US sizes, the smaller the number the smaller the needle, UK the smaller the number the larger the needle
2) SABLE - stash acquisition beyond life expectancy (a knitter's stash is yarn that has been purchased but not yet knit into something). Tink - pulling out knitting after the discovery of a mistake (it's knit spelled backwards), Frogging - also means pulling out knitting after the discovery of a mistake (because you have rip it, rip it, rip it back), The Boyfriend Curse is a superstition among knitters that knitting a sweater for a romantic partner before the relationship is made permanent will cause them to break up with you
3) Ravelry
4) circular, straight, double-pointed (or double-ended)
5) double-pointed
6) Kaffe Fasset, Lily Chin, Elizabeth Zimmerman, Franklin Habit, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, among others, perhaps including me, in certain circles
7a) They threatened to go public with a boycott of all Olympic broadcasts. The USOC backed down. Knitters for the win. That said, the knitters on Ravelry changed the name of the event to the Ravellenics anyway.
7b) The Knitting Olympics was the brainchild of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the Yarn Harlot. She came up with an idea on her blog that it might be a fun challenge to try to knit a complete project during the Winter Olympics. Everyone was supposed to cast on while watching the Opening Ceremonies and have the project completely finished by the Closing Ceremonies. (Completely finished meant not just off the needles but sewn together AND blocked. BD thought the blocking requirement was a bit much and felt sewn together was sufficient.) The idea took off with teams being formed on Ravelry, Cast On with the Opening Ceremonies parties planned, some groups had medals, t-shirts, and badges made up for finishers. It was a big, big deal. All centered on knitting while watching the Olympics on TV, ads included. The USOC was being a big bully.
Bonus: The Very Longest Thread is nicknamed Fred.
CNN has a tracker if you want to follow the former President's plane enroute to NY. Nothing to do with Trump, but can we mark today as the day that cable news debased itself beyond all redemption?
According to ChatGPT, the answers are:
What's its grade, BD?Quote:
- In the US, knitting needles are sized based on numbers, with smaller numbers indicating smaller needles. In the UK, knitting needles are sized based on the diameter of the needle in millimeters, with larger numbers indicating larger needles.
- SABLE stands for "Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy," which is a humorous way of describing a large collection of yarn. Tink is the word "knit" spelled backward, and it means to undo one stitch at a time. Frogging refers to the act of unraveling a section of knitting. The Boyfriend Curse is a superstition that if a knitter knits a sweater for her boyfriend, the relationship will end soon after.
- Ravelry is a popular website where knitters and crocheters can connect, share patterns, and discuss their craft.
- The three types of knitting needles are straight, circular, and double-pointed.
- Double-pointed needles, or DPNs, are typically used to knit socks, although circular needles can also be used.
- Elizabeth Zimmermann is a famous knitting designer and author who is credited with revolutionizing the modern practice of knitting.
7a) The knitters responded with outrage, organizing a social media campaign under the hashtag #Ravelympics to protest the USOC's action.
7b) The Knitting Olympics were an informal online event in which knitters challenged themselves to complete a knitting project during the two weeks of the Winter Olympics. There were no official rules or prizes, but participants often shared their progress and finished projects on social media.
Tinking and Frogging are more synonymous than those definitions. Knitters tend to have their preferred term although you would never tink a whole project but you might frog one.
The Knitting Olympics, later Ravellenics, did have official rules. There were also teams that formed where prizes were involved but there was no centralized body that gave out prizes.
I'd have to take a couple of points off, so not 100%, but still an A.
Sushi. Sapporo. Succession.
I watched 15 minutes of the game last night. Watched the entire women's game, but not even half of the men's game. I am not in the camp who think this Final Four is good for the game. Kt was won by a blue blood, but it was a vastly watered-down product.
Watched 0 minutes of the game last night. I’m guessing that the ratings will be low, and I’m happy to be a very small part of the reason why.
Air conditioner weather; and I watched zero of the game last night.
In a year full of upsets, UConn wins. How boring and anticlimactic. I didn't watch it either.
When you build a system to detect errors and then you don't have any. Well, questions get asked.
I never had to pay anybody to keep quiet about sex with me. They definitely didn't want to talk about it.
I'm home!
Going shopping today, something I do every 4-5 years or so. List available upon request.
This board has been really spicy this week.
I dated a girl in high school who thought "I'm not big on social graces" by Garth Brooks was "I'm not big on sausage and gravy". She also thought Neapolitan was Napoleon ice cream. Hell of a volleyball player though.
Sure pleased to meet pinball
She's Got a Tic in Her Eye.
today I bought pants for frants, then ate pizza, for those who wonder.
I hear you but I love that this little micro Mormon culture specifically adapted their historical to a relationship fart.
We actually had a conversation with very conservative Mormons about what a Dutch oven was and they were like, oh that’s a covered wagon.
I’m already regretting sticking my opinion in that mess.
Seriously though, I live near the Bidens and I just can’t get over how Hunter ditched his gun in a trash can outside of Jannsens. If you could see this place, it is the snoodiest local grocery store to ever snood down snood mountain. I laugh every time I drive by.
Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
Give me the Beach Boys and free my soul..
While we're on the topic here's a nice instrumental version of EWTRTW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqx5AO4fxDU
Man, some days I just get completely lost on this thread.
Love y'all.
My dance teacher choreographed a specific move to Smooth Criminal for the lyric she thought was “Annie are you walking?”
Two straight 3 AM toddler fever spikes and no return to sleep. Ugh.