So I am the world's worst blogger. It's me and that guy with the blog about how India ought to nuke the US who doesn't understand that he can create new posts instead of just editing the old one to add new stuff every week or so. I apologize for being a terrible blogger. But I have an excuse. It might not be a good one, but it is an excuse. Instead of keeping up with the blog here, I've been seriously working at my study of knitting. I moved up from basic garter to basi... [More]

I've taken up knitting. My resolution for the year was to learn a new skill. Any new skill. Knitting is a skill. Knitting is even a very difficult skill. So it's the perfect thing to learn over the course of 2011. So far, the hardest thing about knitting has been figuring out what the directions say. The process involves a lot of loops twisting around and through each other, and there's not really a good way to describe how exactly that's done. Diagrams aren't alway... [More]