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Continue reading →: Work of hands, work of machines
These came across one of the kumihimo email lists. I think they make a lovely contrast in old and new technologies, and spur many thoughts on the means of production, the substitutability of skill and technology, and the importance of skill and craftsmanship that I’m just too busy to share…
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Book sale
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Continue reading →: Book saleI keep forgetting to post this… by which I mean I wasn’t going to tell you all until I’d ordered my own books! Interweave is having its annual Hurt Books and Overstocks sale right now. You want something, I’m sure of it.
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Continue reading →: Scavenger Hunt
Michelle has been putting together a Thursday Photo Challenge for the past few weeks: a list of things to hunt down and record. I found everything last week, but didn’t have a camera with me. That would make for a boring post, so I didn’t. (Except eating a pink flower…
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Continue reading →: Failure to connect
I’ve been taking lots and lots of lovely photographs: the rhododendrons, the poppies, the lush roses, the first strawberry… but have not so far managed to get them and an internet connection at the same place when I have time to deal with them. So instead, you get a quickie…
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Continue reading →: Go Grand Rapids!
This is very impressive: a nine-minute continuous shot. Read more about it.
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Continue reading →: Random things and rain
It’s Friday. I have a long weekend. I will likely spend it working, since it’s TOO WET TO GARDEN. STILL. We dodged yesterday’s severe thunderstorms and incipient tornado, but still got minor thunderstorms and lots of rain. AGAIN. Forecast for the weekend: more of the same. See? Gray skies. This…
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Sunlight
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Continue reading →: SunlightThis is the first non-rainy day in what seems like weeks. I know two weeks ago we had several sunny days in a row, but I was in the office the whole time (like most of today, I’m afraid). Weekends: rainy. Evenings: rainy. I’m surprised my house isn’t engulfed in…
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Swirling from the trees
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Continue reading →: Swirling from the treesFriday evening, sprawled on the couch with the cat, watching yet another thunderstorm roll in. The southeastern sky is dark, cloud on cloud in shades of gray and black. The western sky is clear, and the setting sun streams across the landscape, nearby trees picked out in high relief. Every…
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York resources
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Continue reading →: York resourcesI’m trying to knock off some of the easy things on my task list (procrastinating the big things by doing the little things: at least something gets done). One such small task is letting you know that the York Archaeological Trust is continuing to put out-of-print books online. The latest…
Welcome!
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.
