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Continue reading →: Yesterday’s news
[I mean the title literally – I took these photos yesterday, but didn’t have time to post them, as work is suffering extreme chaos right now. So pretend it isn’t sunny and warm (well, right around freezing, which is at least warmer), and instead, think of yesterday in central Pennsylvania.]…
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Continue reading →: Yarn
Today it’s 10F (that would be -12C for the rest of the world) outside, and the super-mittens are too warm! Here’s another post that has languished unwritten in my queue. Remember last fall I had a Ravelry pool going, with a sock yarn prize? Marion won, and I managed to…
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Continue reading →: Buttons, braids and books
It was too cold and snowy to go outside, so I spent the weekend indoors doing interesting things with string. (Also too dangerous – there was a 9-car pileup here in white-out conditions, and a 60-something car pileup in eastern PA.) Needle-lace buttons… … and matching fingerloop braids… … as…
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Continue reading →: Necessary knitting
The wind chill was umpty below zero this morning. I don’t own a hand-knit sweater (yet?), so had to made do with one that was given to me (and actually, was probably hand-knit by someone in South America). All the accessories, though – hand-knit wool. Socks, scarf, and I even…
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Continue reading →: The artistic fallacy
[Ed.: It seems appropriate that this post has been sitting in my queue, unwritten, for as long as it has. I refuse to admit how long that is, though a clever reader could easily figure it out, nor will I admit the number of miles I’ve carried Bird by Bird,…
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Continue reading →: Quote
“Everything would be okay if we just had rubberier time. If you could lean against a week so it would have ten or fifteen or thirty days in it. That’s all we need.” – Neil Gaiman
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Continue reading →: All his fault
While I’m writing about Neil Gaiman, I should assign blame where it’s due. Without his evil influence, I might never have encountered FreeRice, a charity vocabulary site. (No, not donate a word to the illiterate, though that does have a certain appeal.) My record: Not that I’m competitive or anything…
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Continue reading →: The oracle speaks
Neil Gaiman* has a Magnificent Oracular Journal. His ordinary journal is anything but ordinary**, as one might expect, so I anticipated great things from the Magnificent Oracle. I shook the Mystical Ball of Truth as instructed. I shook it extra-hard, just to make sure, while concentrating on a Very Important…
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Continue reading →: Penguins
By popular (???) demand, more of the Louisville penguins. The penguins, sculpted by Omar Ronda, are atop the 21c Museum. They apparently also wander the halls of the associated hotel.
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.
