Bravo, Harriet Veitch! “[W]hat are you going to do with yourself when you get old and turn into a granny or granddad? You won’t be hip-hopping to your iPod on your motor scooter the way you think; you’ll be crocheting blankets for the grandbabies or carving cots because you can’t afford to buy one at McIkea. Someone will have to teach you these crafts, and it will be people like us, the ones you scorn right now.” Let’s hear it for the knitters, the crafters, the handworkers, and the bakers!
Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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Knitting for Charity
My KnitWits group at work has decided to do some knitting for “Wraps With Love”, a local group that donates knitted blankets to the needy. Any Aussie knitters want to join us? I’ll volunteer to collect the squares, sew them togther (or host a sewing party), and send them off to the charity. Let me know if you’d like to participate!
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Testing Einstein’s Theory of Relativity…
This is so cool. In a couple days NASA will launch a satellite filled with gyroscopic equipment designed to finally test once-and-for-all Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. It’ll orbit over the poles and “measure how space and time are warped by the presence of the Earth, and, more profoundly, how the Earth’s rotation drags space-time around with it.” I’ve just been reading about Einstein’s theory in Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything and this experiment just sounds so tomorrow. We’re testing things that previous generations thought untestable and unknowable. Bring on the tractor beams and warp drives!
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Million for Marriage
“I do support the right of every American to marry, including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender couples. I believe that marriage and other civil rights protections are essential to making all families safer and more secure.” You can sign the petition too.
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New Glitter!
Attention Glitterati! As I’m sure you’ve realized, the Glitter boards have now moved. You’ve got to re-register on the new site, though, so don’t forget! If you’re a crafty person and you haven’t been there before, you should definitely check it out.
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Bus driver salaries…
What what what? Sydney bus drivers earn $50,000 a year? *chokes* Screw this I.T. crap.
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A very fat cat
If Snookums has his way, this is what Dr. Amy Jones will eventually look like. (Good grief, can that picture be real? Snopes has nothing on it so far.) I’ve been trying to stick by the vet’s recommendations – feeding set portions two or three times during the day – but he keeps undermining my efforts. Amy has figured out that if she mews pitifully enough (or annoys him enough), he’ll give her a “little bit” of food to tide her over. She’s already noticeably bigger than she was when we got her. Darn manipulative cat!
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Luck Factor
What’s your Luck Factor? I was below average on the first three and average on the last. Hmmm. I don’t feel that unlucky. Maybe it’s just that I never expect to be lucky.
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Lemony Snicket preview
I knew they were making a Lemony Snicket movie, but I didn’t realize Jim Carrey was playing Count Olaf! Check out the trailer. It looks… interesting. I think he looks the part but I didn’t really imagine the Count being so goofy. In the books I read (the first four), he was very creepy and scary and menacing. That’s part of the reason I didn’t like them so much. I don’t like scary stories! But other than the goofiness, this looks like it good be a good film. I hope they keep the books’ warped sense of humor. And how funny is it that Jude Law is providing the voice of Lemony Snicket?! (Link courtesy of Kevin.)
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Backstreet’s back!
Backstreet’s back! All right! (It’s sad that I’m excited about this.)