I've watched through the 4th season of the new series (I think there are 5 seasons total). As with most sci fi you have to watch a few episodes to get sucked in, I wouldn't say it's one of those shows that has you immediately hooked. Overall it is quite enjoyable although often glosses over many details so its best if you don't think to much about the plot. I find it is best to just go with what they say and not ask silly questions like, "but why can't they just send some sort of message through space?" It also seems that if humanity was fighting for its life and had only 40,000 people left and no planet to live on it would be difficult to devote so many resources to government and politics but I guess if half the episodes were about fuel processing or plant growing that would be a bit boring. Its quite an emotional show, especially the 4th season, the characters are all over the place so it's not really a marathon sort of series like West Wing or Firefly or Stargate.

I'm blocking it now, all I have left is the buttons (which I have and will hopefully sew on tonight after it dries a bit). I'm really happy with it although the button band is ruffling a bit and if it doesn't block well I'll have to rip it off and try again with fewer stitches.

Overall I didn't modify the pattern much although I did all the ribbed bits with the size 4's rather than 5's. Especially on the sleeves the ribbing with size 5 was just too loose. Because of that I had to do a few extra rows between the decreases for the waist.

my new red boots

my newly organized office (check out my new bookshelves and square storage thing)

me with purple hair :)

Check out my spinning wheel and drop spindle. I'm use both of them as you can see although so far neither is really exciting me all that much. The drop spindle seems slow at best and the spinning wheel is pretty tricky. I think it's only going to work with pretty finely spun yarn and I'm getting better but its still hard to keep from letting too much roving into the triangle area thing where it gets sucked up before I can stop it.

As you can see I've added and RSS feed for those of you who prefer to view my blog in your own viewer and I've also added twitter updates to the main page for those of you who prefer not to use a twitter viewer of some kind. One day presumably there will be a sort of single version viewer (sort of like a web browser...) which will let you view all sorts of stuff rather than having to log into a zillion different things just to keep up with your friends. Although after all the hard work I did on my new website it is sort of sad to think that people do just want the content and not all my pretty formatting and whimsical icons. Perhaps after a decade or so of everything being turned into a feed of some kind we'll have a renewal of individuality in presentation and not just content and people will be back viewing my website again.

I'm also working on a search/news page but that hasn't quite been finished yet.

I'm currently working on adding my twitters to cleverbit.org and I'm trying to use the idTwitterClientPlugin. I thought it was worth mentioning that there is a bug in this plugin just in case someone can manage to google and come up with this blog entry they can save themselves some time. On line 92 of idTwitterClient.class.php the name of the username-password string should be 'userpwd' if you want to use curl. It needs to match the name of the constant curl expects in order to include the username-password string in GET requests. I think there may also be an issue with the date encoding of the 'since' field in the UserTimeline function but that was one of the first things I commented out and I haven't gone back to check it yet.

cake belongs on a plate

not on a napkin

I have a whole new appreciation for the land of the free and the home of the brave and the country where your frosting doesn't come stuck to a bit of textured paper.