September 5, 2003
Halfway There
Here's today's progress. I'm a little over 50% done now. Mom will probably see this tomorrow afternoon after we get to Ann Arbor anyway, so I figured I could share a snap of the project before I go. Normally I don't ever want to do anything more than once, but I kind of like this project. It's much more entertaining than all the EROS scarves I made last year. I'm hoping that I can get most of the rest of it finished up in the car on the way to Ann Arbor tomorrow. Believe it or not, it takes me about 45 minutes to get across one row when I am doing the crossing over stuff.
Not sure what else I will be bringing. Definitely my dad's LoTech Sweat and the Noro sweater that needs the edging put on it. And probably a sock. John's decided that it is getting cool enough to wear socks again, so it's time to think about getting that grey striped Opal worked up into something he can keep warm with.
I found a couple of interesting links today. The first comes from John, who somehow manages to find all manner of strange things on the Internet.
Use the Gender Genie to figure out a person's gender with a text sample. Apparently my blog is actually written by a man (at least yesterday's post was), but it's entertaining to understand why it predicts what it does.
Ever wanted to know something about a particular breed of sheep? I always knew that there were different kinds of sheep -- I just didn't know how many kinds there actually were before I went to this page sponsored by Oklahoma State University. I didn't realize that there were so many sub-breeds of Merino sheep! There are good pictures here as well as some breed history and standards. Definitely a good substitute for getting your own sheep for your back yard!
Those colors of Koigu are gorgeous and that pattern is really something!
The Gender Denie was fouled up with one of my shorter posts and thought I was a man, but I put in a very long post and it predicted correctly. Interesting idea.
I looked up the stitch in the VK book and it needs something like koigu to make it work. I think I might have to try this out I love it.
I tried the gender genie and it said I was a girl, but I find the concept a bit strange. It assumes gender is a fixed concept based in language use instead of a fluid thing influenced by all manner of social realities. (Can you tell I work on this sort of stuff!)
I cannot believe how incredibly gorgeous your scarf is turning out. Definitely on my Must Knit list!
shhhhhh...don't tell anybody there is a GOOD REASON why I should NOT have a sheep in my back yard :)
Love the scarf. Simply GORGEOUS!
Have a lovely trip!
I'm just ahlfway through my scarf too, and can't wait to start another. I want to figure out how they increased to do the shawl too. Yesterday I went and read all your archives. Great read! Thanks!
Gender Genie told me I was male, too - I suspect that it is more accurate with "neutral" (i.e., non-journal type) writing, because apparently it counts the number of times you say "I" and the number of times you relate numbers, and it decides your maleness if you talk about either of those a lot.
Nope...plugged in a sample from a research article and that made it say I was male, too.
I think the algorithm is flawed, or based on too small of a data set. (there are like six keywords that they use to i.d. each gender)
That scarf is so beautiful.The stitch pattern realy shows the colours,which are gorgeous,well.
You knit the most lovely things !
I'm looking forward to seeing the Silk Garden cardigan on you.