Just kidding, I found it online. A monstrosity like that would probably strangle its owner.

So I’m re-learning how to knit; I’m working on a scarf for the first time since I was like sixteen. Just the garter stitch — I can’t do the faster Continental method yet, I’ll figure that out tomorrow thanks to this terrific video series I found on YouTube! Maybe I shouldn’t have bought black yarn for my very first project… kinda hard to see what I’m doing. My logic was, I wouldn’t have to worry about getting the thing dirty while I flailed around working on it. But anyway, it’s not so bad. I got like four inches done in the last 24 hours — 50 stitches, maybe 12 or 13 rows. It’s going to be a pretty wide and long scarf, if I actually finish it. :-)

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  settonmcleod posted a comment:

  I love the floating hat guitar player.

  Edith Frost:

  LOL!!! I hadn't even noticed. That is totally creepy.

• Marooned - Jenn got mugged!! :-( So glad she’s ok.

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• Earworm: Mama Cass singing “Make Your Own Kind of Music”. Infected the other night watching “Lost”. #
• Hey, I’m on BandToBand! I thought solo artists didn’t qualify, but I guess it’s due to the Boxhead connection. http://tinyurl.com/3q74sk #
• Should I use Google Analytics or Woopra? I mean, wouldn’t it slow down pageloading too much if you used both? Which I am? #
• Mmm. If I could drink Big Red all day long, I probably would. (I’m from Texas!) http://www.bigredltd.com/ #
• 
  I thought that big blue one was an orchid but it’s a Clematis. :-)

• Earworm: “Show Me” by the Cover Girls. Infected on BART, leaking out from someone’s headphones. Who would listen to *that* song, that loud? #
• Today is a great day to be living in California. :-) #
• Loved three songs on Last.fm:
  • Alexander Moore – Neglected Woman
  • Espers – Black Is the Color
  • Canasta – Busride (DJ STV SLV’s Crank Dat Busride Mix, feat. Pop It Off Boyz) - free MP3!
  • Roxanne Shante - My Groove Gets Better
• Biz Markie and Roxanne Shante - Live in NYC 1986
• Roxanne Shante - Live On Stage

• How did I not know that Journey is from San Francisco? Guess I never gave it much of a thought. http://tinyurl.com/38poll #

• Barry Phipps’ cool photo of the Spire in Berwyn IL. Here’s another one.

My pal Jenn Frank just blogged this little video she took of the Axiotron Modbook at Macworld 2008…

• Ran up against a bad bug in the WP 2.5 plugin auto-updater. It deleted a plugin, then installed & activated another one I’d never heard of. #
• Comment on “Customizable Comment Listings v2.0″:

  For some mysterious reason the 2.5 plugin auto-updater deleted this plugin for me, then installed and activated a copy of “Hide or Cut Post Text” instead. I had to install CCL 2 by hand.

• @jennatar: Do it! The new dashboard is sweet. #
• Flickr: Defaced Presidents