Long Weekend Open Thread
Like a lot of people in the US of A, I am taking a long weekend. Posting may be a little light for a bit. So here’s an open thread for everyone else taking a long weekend. Or not. Use this thread for anything that’s not personal. Like misogyny, politics, kitties, you know the drill. (Though kitties are welcome in all threads, of course.)
I am hoping my long weekend turns out a bit better than that of the people in the Australian movie of that name from 1978, which I keep meaning to see. Apparently their little beach vacation doesn’t go so well, and they are attacked by … nature? At one point, I believe, they face off against an enraged dugong. (No, really.) The movie was recently remade, but apparently the remake wasn’t as good.
Stay tuned for more reviews of movies I haven’t seen and that I’m just giving vague impressions of based on things I’ve heard somewhere.
Posted on July 5, 2013, in off topic, open thread. Bookmark the permalink. 1,031 Comments.
I’ve never tried the circular needles, but I’ve always wanted to try them.
I’ve been getting into the knee socks trend and I don’t want to spend money on getting them at the store. I thought about using circular needles to “cheat” at a pair, and making it a loose knit to make it go faster. Right now I’ve got a scarf and this current sock to work on.
This sock is a very tight knit. I’m using 5 needles that are 2.25mm. The yarn is basically sock yarn size but a bit thicker and softer.
RE: gillyrosebee and hrovitnir
Thank you! I feel so much better now.
Also, OMG, I just discovered… THE BIVY SACK! Lighter than the tarp tent, waterproof, and more likely to keep out bugs. For $100, no bad. Only thing is my pack wouldn’t fit in it, but maybe a garbage bag? Not heavy, can be wadded up tiny… what do you think?
*flips back through the thread*
Well, I’m suddenly very glad I spent my weekend helping my brother and his wife move into their new basement suite.
Arms and legs aren’t, but brain and heart is.
Yay feeling better! The bivy sack looks pretty sweet. I’ve heard good things about them, dunno about the particular brand though.
2.25mm! Flippin’ heck, that’s almost sewing needle size! No wonder you don’t want to have to undo it all. Those sock should be terrific when you’ve done. What colour/s are they?
*socks
This is weird, but obsidian, can we have an email debate about this sometime? Like a civilish one?
Kitten, they’re just a charcoal color. I don’t know how to do different colors… I might add some patterns if I’m confident enough. So far I’m just doing ribs at the top so it will stay up.
LBT - I’m not an expert or anything like it, but looking at that particular bivy, I don’t think it’s actually rainproof. A lot of reviewers complained about that, since it doesn’t have anything but a mesh cover for the face area. Wouldn’t want you to get all drenched in the rain.
Kitteh*, autocorrected…
leftwingfox, at least it wasn’t a 4th floor walkup? I hope the aches and pains pass quickly!
auggziliary/Kittehs I actually started using a circular method whenever possible, because I get very bored with hand sewing and will be more likely to adapt a pattern to produce as few seams as possible. Circular needles are best when the piece is bigger than the needle and can be gathered a bit to fit. Small pieces like hats, mittens and booties, or socks I always use the double pointed set; I just find it faster and less tedious than to do the ‘magic loop’ thing with a longer circular. Moving the loop takes me time to stop and pay attention to, while I can knit in the round (straight, no pattern) without even bothering to look at my hands. When I was in grad school, I would sit in the library for hours with my books up on a stand and my knitting in my lap, only stopping occasionally to take notes.
Right now I am working on one of these http://knittingetcithaca.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Knit-Swirl.jpg in a heathered grey merino wool, or at least I was before it got so frakking hot out…
@ Argenti
RE the furry ones, have you wet them down yet? It can really help when it’s hot, particularly if you wet their heads. I used to do that for my cat when we lived in an apartment that got stupidly hot in the summer.
On Pecunium’s nemesis, I don’t think he’s a bad communicator, I think he’s just a good old fashioned selfish asshole.
That’s my impression, too. I saw him in a few other threads on Popehat (seems to be a regular, and very prolific, commenter), and he uses the same schtick over and over. To the rest of us, these things are real, serious issues that need addressing, because we’ve been hurt by them.
To him, these things are fodder for a game in which he plays vocabulary games, dodges, re-defines, gaslights, and tries to score some kind of rhetorical point until he’s satisfied that he’s right, and everyone else is just not as smart as he is.
So, yeah. Probably not an abuser, and maybe not even an MRA. Just a selfish asshole, to whom other people’s pain and distress are game pieces.
::looks at jacket::
::dies of envy::
I can’t knit in hot weather either.
Yeah, I find knitting on circular needles a bit confusing - I’ve only done it successfully when adding to an already-sewn-up beret (the one I’m wearing here - only pic I have of it). When I tried a cowl, despite being, I thought, careful about not twisting the knitting, it turned into an Escher cowl anyway.
@auggz, I’ve never tried knitting in different-coloured yarns for patterns either. It’s either multicoloured yarn, or I’ve added a plain band to a coloured beret. I like that look and the result from using finer yarn for the band; helps the beret expand properly. I like my caps wide.
Which is abusive in itself, given internet contact = IRL. Low-level, but abusive nevertheless, especially since he seems to take pleasure from it.
Cassandra — the dog sticks his head in his bowl, the cat would kill me (she’s been playing long cat and draft stopper by my brother’s door, she can borrow his AC, I can’t, go figure).
I am tempted to try talking my father into letting me shear the dog like he was a sheep. He’s got long black fur and must being fucking miserable in this shit (he’s plopped in front of a fan)
I should probably grab ice for the fish in the morning and drop some in the water bowls while I’m at it.
And plop and ice pack under my mac, it is Very Fucking Cranky. Meh, I should be done soon and then it can take a week off. (Last chart! Update footnotes! Spell/logic check! Email David!)
LBT, poverty sucks VERY HARD, and being dependant on other people sucks even more. Most especially when their help comes with unspoken conditions. It’s wonderful that your friends are willing to support you.
That place you’re in, where you feel well enough that you SHOULD be able to do more, is very seductive, and very dangerous. It tempts you to take on more than you can handle, and you (well, I) backslide and crash hard.
Please take the help, and keep taking care of yourself, and each other.
I love these patterns but they look too hard for me…
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/colorwork-creations-knit-woodland-inspired-hats-mittens-and-gloves
RE: dustydeste
Good point, though that thing looks damn big, and I could squidge down at the bottom. (The handy part of having an economy-size vessel.) Regardless, I think I shall bring a tarp as well, as insurance. It’ll cover my gear, possibly my head, and I can jury-rig extra shelter if need be. Plus tarps are just handy.
RE: Unimaginative
Yeah, I’m REALLY leery about backsliding, in my case. The past four years or so have been a nasty cycle of burnout, walking wounded, backslide, and the whole reason I’m doing this big trip is to try and completely reboot my brain with new config files.
@Agenti
It is NOT a good idea to shave the dog; it might hurt the dog more than it will help. This explains why:
http://www.veterinaryinsider.com/public/Thinking-About-Shaving-Your-Dogs-Hair-Coat-For-The-Summer-Think-Again.cfm
1000!
Curses, I was just about to hit 1000!
::gnashes teeth::
ō.Ó? I would not have thought that looking like a wool producing animal would help in this shit.
Speaking of shit, that Popehat thread!! Wtf is THIS?
@auggz - those patterns are gorgeous! I can’t see myself doing knitting that complicated, either. Took me a year to get to grips with rib stitch!
@neuroticbeagle, I never knew that about shaving dogs, either! I see a collie who gets clipped (not really shaved, there’s a little more hair than that) in the summer. Presumably her owner doesn’t know about this either.
Oh, so sorry… Wait, no I’m not. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Strewth, Argenti, which asshat was that?
Marketplace of ideas? KKK? Holy fucking petunias, Batman, what has this to do with “Keep your goddamn hands and sleazy comments to yourself, women are NOT SEX VENDING MACHINES, how hard is that to understand?” Because complaining about “marketplace of ideas” and all that bullshit is saying that harassers have an argument, that they have a right to harass.
“ō.Ó? I would not have thought that looking like a wool producing animal would help in this shit.”
The Furrinati- they were even designed sneaky.
“Under those…credibility.”
The words- I know them separately- yet when put together it is incomprehensible.
Amnesia, I think you were! It said 999 when I came to the site, but 1001 after I typed my entry. You did it, you were 1000! ::party::
“The Furrinati- they were even designed sneaky.”
::dies::
That’d be this piece of work — http://www.popehat.com/2013/07/01/why-does-talking-about-creepers-and-harassment-make-people-so-angry/#comment-1073432
@Kittehs
It depends on how much gets taken off.
http://www.doggroomers.com/summer-hair-cuts-for-dogs/
@Argenti
Reading the whole thing…I can’t even..TOO MUCH WRONGNESS!
@Argenti - oh, him, yeah. Piece of work is right.
@neuroticbeagle - hopefully collie’s all right then, because she doesn’t look shaved, her skin doesn’t show through her short coat. First time I saw her I couldn’t figure out what breed she was; it looked like short hair.
Poop, when it’s not the blockquote monster it’s the italics monster!
Stranded colorwork (fair isle, nordic, etc.) isn’t really all that hard to do, it’s just hard to do well. It takes coordination, because you need to use one color per hand to maintain proper tension, and when you are starting out it goes very slowly. And it takes patience.
It’s not something I’ve done a lot of. I started making a pair of mitts once (palm and back) but I couldn’t get the tension right and I gave up. I did a couple of handbags as gifts (they were too loose but I’d intended to felt them anyway so it worked out great) but I can’t seem to find any pictures of those.
One of these days, I’m going to get back into it. I love the history of fair isle, and I have this and I like to set impossible goals for myself.
Lol, so taking some off the 4″~ hanging before him is probably okay (and fuck getting a groomer, if I can trim a hyper poodle puppy’s face evenly, I can trim an older dog who probably won’t even notice cuz he’s dumb like that)
That poodle *shakes head* had to give belly rubs with one hand and trim with the other to get the matted bits between his cute little legs, getting near his eyes was a two person job since he just had to watch what I was doing >.< (yeah, that little smarty pants totally 180'ed my wariness of tiny dogs, these days it'd totally prefer the plop in lap, trim size to weighing nearly as much as me [and being dumb enough to bark at bricks])
Brain Bleach
Sneaky Furrinati
http://media-cache-ec2.pinimg.com/736x/40/32/80/40328098a40ddf7405dbcc66e6cab162.jpg
I…they’re cute, but don’t pet skunks have their skunk’ing glands removed?
In any case, just meow would you? is pretty funny!
I don’t know if they are pets or being rescued or someone really thinks they are cats- i just found the picture on the internet.
Argenti, yup they do have their stinkers removed.
It’s a good thing Fribs isn’t black and white, or I’d think she’s a skunk who didn’t have her skunky glands removed.
OOOOOH that Fair Isle!
Ha, just had a “teach your grandmother to suck eggs” moment. Colleague heard or saw a doco on Louis XIV last night and was trying to tell me All the Things about someone I’ve known about since colleague was about ten. Not helped when he gets first bit of information wrong.
Okay, so I could keep going, but cat anger consequences are beginning, so I am off to bed.
Night all!
Niters, gillyrosebee! Avoid the CACs at all costs!
Unless it will lead to SACs (skunk anger consquences)
Ewwww!
What… Pollock is a Pillock on everything? I’m shocked.
Well, ok, I’m not. I hope he was surprised to have someone come in and take him on with a fresh perspective.
I had a yarn adventure. Was reeling a spun bobbin (to make it more even for plying) and it broke. Happens. Only couldn’t find the end. Trying to find it by lifting it with a toothbrush didn’t help.
Had to enlist help to manually unwind it, detangle it, and hand reel it.
Tomorrow I’ll ply it. Lovely purple yarn, didn’t want to lose 3 oz of spinning because of that.
Good Night.
http://media-cache-ak2.pinimg.com/736x/53/9a/c1/539ac1aac5348fdb65ba4cad80bf4130.jpg
Is that the yarn that was sitting grinning HA YOU CAN’T WORK ME at you, pecunium?
Sleeping with Pets part deux, aka why Louis has banned the Furrinati from the bedroom.
LBT: Update on bivy sack - my partner knows people who’ve used them, obviously the face is mesh but also because they’re waterproof you tend to get damp from the fabric not breathing. Some people really like them though, and with a tarp it should be pretty good.
You can also get “bivy tents” like these http://aroundthehills.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/first-impressions-vaude-bivi-1p/ but I can’t make Google work for me and it may be out of your price range. :/