random and sundry
Oct. 16th, 2011 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castiron1. Sitting on my desk are four knitting projects, all in different multicolored yarns, that nonetheless go together surprisingly well. I'm not sure whether it's just that I'm consistently drawn to similar colors or if my color sense is warped.
2. I want my gravestone to say "STET", in spite of the fact that I am not actually a copyeditor. (Assuming that I have a gravestone rather than an urn that sits on someone's shelf for fifty years and then is sold as a curiosity for $1.75 at a yard sale. STET might be even more appropriate on the urn, actually.)
3. There are a lot more people than I expected who will read a particular cracky pairing. (But still nowhere near as many as will read Beowulf/Old Spice Guy crossover.)
4. The weather report claims that Tuesday's high will be around 75F/under 25C. Multiple weather reports, actually, which means it might really happen; I live in hope. The wool waistcoat is ready.
5. We have figured out that a random phrase older son keeps saying is actually "That's impossible". I am now trying to figure out a. where he picked that up (if it were just "impossible", I'd think it was from watching The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but it's definitely "that's" in front), and b. what he thinks it means, or whether he's just saying it because he likes the sound.
6. Younger son is at the stage where we can annoy him by changing words when we read him his bedtime story; he corrects us very firmly. It's way too much fun to mess with a preschooler's mind.
7. Still trying to find a satisfactory epub reader app to replace Stanza on my iPod before I upgrade to iOS 5. Needs: night mode (white text on black background) option and ability to handle 600+ files; talking to Calibre nice but not necessary.
2. I want my gravestone to say "STET", in spite of the fact that I am not actually a copyeditor. (Assuming that I have a gravestone rather than an urn that sits on someone's shelf for fifty years and then is sold as a curiosity for $1.75 at a yard sale. STET might be even more appropriate on the urn, actually.)
3. There are a lot more people than I expected who will read a particular cracky pairing. (But still nowhere near as many as will read Beowulf/Old Spice Guy crossover.)
4. The weather report claims that Tuesday's high will be around 75F/under 25C. Multiple weather reports, actually, which means it might really happen; I live in hope. The wool waistcoat is ready.
5. We have figured out that a random phrase older son keeps saying is actually "That's impossible". I am now trying to figure out a. where he picked that up (if it were just "impossible", I'd think it was from watching The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but it's definitely "that's" in front), and b. what he thinks it means, or whether he's just saying it because he likes the sound.
6. Younger son is at the stage where we can annoy him by changing words when we read him his bedtime story; he corrects us very firmly. It's way too much fun to mess with a preschooler's mind.
7. Still trying to find a satisfactory epub reader app to replace Stanza on my iPod before I upgrade to iOS 5. Needs: night mode (white text on black background) option and ability to handle 600+ files; talking to Calibre nice but not necessary.