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Continue reading →: String Puzzle, amended
Yes, everyone thinks the gizmo looks like a bobbin winder of some sort. But here’s where we’re most perplexed: The putative bobbin area is hourglass shaped. There isn’t an obvious way to mount a pirn or quill, and how would you get it off if you wound directly onto the…
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Continue reading →: String Puzzle
Long-time followers of Stringpage will remember the occasional puzzles. I get a reasonable amount of email from folks asking what something is, or how to replicate it. These are fun! Sometimes I can answer, but sometimes I have no idea. When I don’t know, I call on the Internet hive-mind,…
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Continue reading →: Amsterdam, Part II
And the second half of the Amsterdam highlight photos. See you tomorrow/next year!
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Continue reading →: Amsterdam, Part I
This happens every year: end-of-year hell. Last year the powers that be moved the end of the year from, well, the end of the year to the end of the fiscal year, which is different. I like this system better, since now crunch time doesn’t come during the holidays, but…
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Continue reading →: Cop-out
Instead of actual content, let alone Netherlands photos, today you get odds and ends from the Internet that I’ve been collecting. First, most important, and showiest: the Staffordshire Hoard, a glorious collection of Anglo-Saxon goldwork. “Better than Sutton Hoo.” Found by a guy with a metal detector – wouldn’t that…
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Continue reading →: Back in Place
There’s always a settling-in process after a long trip, especially one with a substantial time difference. You need to unpack, return things to their proper places, catch up on sleep, see what has changed or not while you were gone. There’s always a sense of displacement: some things are the…
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Continue reading →: Back. Exhausted.
Got home at 3:30 this morning, after an airline incident involving “precautionary fire trucks”. All was fine – that announcement from the pilot was the scariest part of the whole thing. The extra five hours was the worst part – that made the whole trip (bus, train, plane) a 24-hour…
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Continue reading →: Friday photo-essay
I’m leaving for Amsterdam oh-so-early tomorrow morning. I’ve got my passport, plane tix and credit card – what more could a girl want? I’ve been trying to get a head start on the jet lag problem by getting up earlier and earlier. This hasn’t worked so well, since other obligations…
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Continue reading →: Happy Anniversary and Stuff
Stringpage Supplies is two this month. The web store didn’t go live until January, but the paperwork and the first tentative sales all happened in September 2007. I’m not entirely sure how that was two years ago, but the calendar doesn’t lie. It has been interesting, and entertaining, and bloody…
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I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
