Floating houses

selenite shared a link with me on a Wall Street Journal article on this, and then when I wanted to post found another that doesn't require membership.
Floating Dutch houses

Elizabeth Moon wrote a short story about this, I'm not sure how many years ago, it's in a collection of hers. That one was set in the Mississippi river valley. I read it and enjoyed it. (We have the collection - but it's downstairs, and I'm still on a no-stairs promise to selenite

I think this is tremendously sensible. As I was saying earlier to faxpaladin, this is one of the fun things about being a science fiction fan, when you see the stories start becoming reality.

Friends don't let friends knit ugly

So today there was a post on the advanced_knit group that included a quote:

The best periods of Knitting have always occurred when yarns have been scarce or expensive, as the desire for better knowledge of the work is stimulated in order that yarn need not be unduly wasted

In a comment someone replied: Hmm, I like that concept. Given how available and inexpensive yarn is these days, the monstrosities in You Knit What?! suddenly make sense ....

So of course I had to go read it. OMGWTF. That just sucked away my brain for half an hour. Wow. Some of these patterns I'd seen online. (Although, okay, I admit I've considered knitting that one belt for Karl. He *likes* that kind of belt. He liked the idea.)

Common phrase - "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."

A good quote:

But this shit? Has to go. Obviously done for the "I don't knit on anything smaller than a size 30 needle because I have no ability to delay gratification" crowd. ... This is the kind of thing that make non-knitters ask "did you make that?" But not in a good way.

The site has a LJ feed! Go here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/youknitwhat/

Go, take a look. patgund, dear, you are required to go look, in repayment for many of the links you have inflicted on us in the past. ;-)

comic link

Okay, I'm highly amused by this Something Positive

And general rec - if you're not reading Girl Genius, give it a try!

beading

Do I have anybody on my flist who gets into beading that would be willing to field questions and do design advice with me for a little project I'm fiddling with?