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ysabetwordsmith is holding a poetry fishbowl today with the theme of Mad Science. One of her freebie poems for the day, Dust and Shadows, is about golems and robots and the urge to create.

I think at least firstfrost and remcat will be amused by this pattern for socks with the first page of the text of Beowulf. Link yoinked from ysabetwordsmith, who says she'd rather have that on a vest. Given the charts for the socks and a simple vest pattern, would that be hard? I imagine there would be some wacky chart-splicing involved, but that might just mean juggling a few rectangles around to reassemble them nicely into a page?

Signal boosting, from siderea: ALERT: FIRESHEEP: Man-in-the-Middle now in Convenient Firefox Plug-In!
And the article on TechCrunch: Firesheep In Wolves' Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily

Signal boosting: Racial Microaggressions.

I know I'm much more aware of equivalents with respect to gender and religion, and will try to be more attentive to such things in general. By all means call me on it ...

Madrigal (that boffer larp I'm on staff for) is looking for NPCs for the next event, which is October 8-10. NPCs for any fraction of the event are welcome and encouraged. Rumor has it that there will be cookies. (Not from me at the event, as I am running in circles panicking, but I can offer post-event bribes of baked goods, and cliodhna and bluestocking have both mentioned cookies at the event ...)

The next Sketchfest will be October 15th-16th, noon to noon Alaska time, aka 4pm - 4pm Eastern time.

Come play with us!

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I made it to studio three days running (high time!), and have cleared most of my glazing backlog, and picked up the pieces I glazed last week. (Beads and chimes are fast to make, but often slower than medium-sized pieces to glaze.) Discounting the broken bisque I may pitch instead of using as glaze tests (chimes make fine glaze tests, and I might want to keep them afterward), I'm down to two pieces of unglazed bisque, both of which I'm dithering about how to glaze (but I'll get another batch back Thursday), and I have three thrown and three handbuilt pieces in progress. I may put a moratorum on beads until I've done some decent throwing, as I've thrown all of one piece so far this term.

Back from glazing on Monday:
Three mottled turquoise pendants -- the glaze combination did not turn out the same way as last time, but I like it this way, too.
Seven chimes and pendants, showing wildly variable vegas red results -- the broadway/vegas combo in the large spaces on the back of the B turned out very nicely, IMO.
A bunch of beads, a couple of which were sadly ruined in firing.
Another one of those crazy little spiral bowls, deeper than the last one, with a foot that's too big instead of too small.

... and I won't inflict any more pottery on you for another week. :)

Signal-boosting -- thank you, chaointe.

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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And speaking of stories, the end of an ancient language, and all the stories and cultural knowledge it held.

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Sunday I saw Never After. It's cute and bouncy. Much of the music is fun; the orchestra was excellent. It pushed at my definition of 'fairy tale' -- I think it isn't quite one, to me, but instead belongs over in whatever one calls the space Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are in.

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Edit: Unlocked per request.