K2, P2 - A Knitty MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Yup. Sleep deprived. Light on energy and motivation. Will probably do one review today. Seriously need to get to bed earlier tonight. Blurf.

@SmartyPants - 7 pretty well exclusively uses Vista drivers, and while there may have been slight changes to the architecture, the vast majority of them should work. As I said, I ran into only one significant problem with Vista 64-bit drivers that wouldn’t work on 7 64-bit, and that was for virtual drive applications. I’m not sure what makes them any different, but I’ll have to wait 'til virtual drive app developers update for Win7.

7 is still bloatware compared to XP, but it’s slimmed down some compared to Vista. At idle with nothing else running on a fresh install it’ll chew up about a gig of RAM. With my system set up the way it is right now it idles at about 1.7gb, but that still leaves plenty of space for everything else. Perhaps more importantly it just feels snappier. The new task bar takes a bit of getting used to though. (It’s like Microsoft took the standard task bar and married it with the Mac OSX dock.)

Back to the grind.

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Blurf.

I’m [del]wasted[/del] spent most of the morning in a lovely meeting with a secondary vendor, whose solution was billed by the primary vendor as The Ultimate Solution to All Our User Profile Problems, with added bonus functionality that can multiply loaves and fishes, turn water to wine, and bring about total spiritual enlightenment. In case anyone’s curious, it fell a little short of expectations. :rolleyes:

Update to the ongoing saga of Little Sister’s Wedding Day Drama: the invitation arrived in the mail yesterday. I knew it would be arriving sometime soon, but I’m still not sure how I want to deal with it. Advice has been requested in IMHO.

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Woo-hoo! 103rd!

Who knew knitting was so freakin’ popular around here? Also, when I clicked into this thread I though it was going to be a a very Kitty MP. Now I hunger for cute kittens.

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The bold quote is about all I comprehend about what you’ve said. It was one of the first things I noticed on my new Dell Studio laptop that’s running Vista. :o

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At your service!

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Knitting is out of the closet and acceptable.

Vunderbob I am in amazement of your weekend project! Good on you!

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I hear you can knit those… :stuck_out_tongue:

Mork, if you have time could you put up a screenshot of the task bar? I realize it’s rather picky of me, but Himself makes Hackintoshes featuring that mothereffin’ OSX docking station and I hate that friggin’ thing more than I have profanity to express–seriously, it could be a dealbreaker requiring me to stay out of 7 until Himself figures out a hack to get the old task bar back. I use ALL my screen, and it just pisses me off no end to have the huge goddamned jack-in-the-box PNGs blorping up and getting in my way because I GOT TOO CLOSE OHNOEZ! Grr. Who thinks that’s a good idea, anyway? Oh yeah, Mac users… :rolleyes: snerk

Himself has some performance versions of Vista that are actually quite petite, but there are some fairly useful services that were left out of the mix that need to be reinstalled–like the fax and printer stuff! It’s suitable for making a bootable USB drive, though, which is what he did with it. It’s come in handy for really banjaxed boxes that just don’t want to talk to the world but have too much irreplaceable data on them to simply scrub and start over.

[/geekspeak] Okay, safe to read on! :smiley:

Hot damn, that’s a panstload o’free yarn there, DogMom! I inherited a gigantic amount of acyrlic '70s colored yarn from my grandmother, and twenty years after she died I was STILL using that stuff to tie plants to stakes! :stuck_out_tongue: Well, it really is the only good use for acrylic yarn…

It’s too bad SpaceDawg died because otherwise I’d be offering soft, warm, somewhat stinky Malemute fur to some enterprising and brave yarn freak. I used to finger-spin that stuff and it had a staple the length of which you wouldn’t believe. Would’ve made some fine scarves, I think. I used to get POUNDS of it off her, twice a year. I miss her–but not the brushing!

Wouldja believe it snowed again last night? Just a smidgen and it’s pretty much melted by now, but still… :dubious:

Himself stayed up much too late trying to finish up building a box that’s supposed to leave in a Mustang sometime today to travel back to TN–he says he’s not done yet but he also won’t get out of bed, so I have no idea if it’s gonna get done… I keep trying to tell him you can NOT make a piece of string longer by cutting a length from one end and tying it to the other, but does he listen? Men.

I hafta go food shopping today or tomorrow and I just donwanna. The wrinkly raisins annoy me and they’ve really taken over my favorite Winco. The only way to defeat them is to get up very early before their Metamucil takes effect, or to go at night while they’re snoozing over “Matlock” reruns. Neither is optimal. Perhaps I need shopping cart mounted laser cannons… Hmmm…

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Two days running, and the MMP is still resistant to hijacking. Are we in danger of the OP being on topic all week? :dubious:

:: head explodes ::

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Now I know how others felt in my Cookbook MMP.

Knitting. Bah.

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I know I’m not who you were responding to, but I also had trouble learning to purl. The trick is to pay close attention to which way you wrap the working end of the yarn.

Try this (assuming you are right handed that is). It will ensure your stitches don’t get twisted.

  1. Insert the right needle in the next stitch on the left needle from right to left.
  2. Wrap yarn from front to back over the top of the right needle and bring yarn back toward you from under the right needle.
  3. Pull right needle with yarn wrapped around it through the stitch on the left needle. You now have a finished purl stitch on your right needle.
    When you pull the purl stitch through, it helps to angle the tip of the right needle slightly away and up from your body to keep the loop from slipping off the needle.

TheFaerie

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Knitters will take over the world. We will tie you up in knots and poke you with pointy sticks. We will turn all threads into knitting stories. We will put socks on the world!

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If you already know how to crochet, look up Continental knitting instructions. You are already used to holding your working yarn in your left hand and when I taught myself to knit I found that holding the working yarn in my right hand was just not working for me.

Wow, I’m chatty today!

TheFaerie

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I forgot to add:

  1. Bring your working yarn to the side of the work facing you.
  2. Insert the right needle in the next stitch on the left needle from right to left so that the point of the right hand needle is on the side of the work facing you.
  3. Wrap yarn from front to back over the top of the right needle and bring yarn back toward you from under the right needle.
  4. Pull right needle with yarn wrapped around it through the stitch on the left needle. You now have a finished purl stitch on your right needle.
    When you pull the purl stitch through, it helps to angle the tip of the right needle slightly away and up from your body to keep the loop from slipping off the needle.

Oh yeah, and when you make new stiches on the right hand needle, you are kniting right handed, and when you make new stiches onto the left hand needle, you are knitting left handed. And to make it even more cool and confusing, some people go back and forth so that they don’t have to turn the work. There are as many different ways of knitting as there are people who knit, and no two people do it exactly alike. The only important thing is that the finished item comes out the way you want it to.

I love knitting. I’m TEDFaerie on Ravelry and TheFaerie (I think) on Knitty.com.

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Yeah, well, I like cooking, so that one didn’t matter.

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I like cooking, too.

I think I’ll make hash with the leftover pot roast from Sunday. With fried eggs.
Muppet, is there anywhere in the east end that sells corn tortillas? I want to make migas, and I don’t want to use crap flour tortillas for it.

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My Little Sister (as in “Big Brother, Big Sister”) showed me how to make tortillas with that corn flour stuff you can buy. Maybe you should do that? They’re yummy. Mine always looked like blobs, however. Hers were always perfectly round and beautiful!

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At some point in my childhood I told my mother I was going to learn how to knit. I have blocked the resulting carnage from my memory.

A few years ago I decided to learn how to crochet. I was going to make a scarf. It kept getting narrower and narrower. Apparently, I was working on one side of a very small pyramid cover.

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Two knitting questions just came to mind.

  • If you’re working in a single color, when you need to start on a new skein, do you leave a tail from both the old and new and them weave them in or do you tie the old and new together and just keep going?

  • How exactly do you “weave in” the ends? I’ve been sort of mucking through it on my own (and I HATE it… it’s the only thing I really really don’t like about knitting), but I’m guessing there’s a “right” way to do it and I’m not doing it that way.

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I got the interview!!
for those of you paying attention to my ongoing employment saga, I got a call from a recruiter today who apologized that I was rejected by HR and telling me that they definately do want to interview me. So, YAY!! I’m so glad that I listened to everyone who told me to use the contacts I had available in order to get my resume directly to the Hiring manager. :D:cool::):D:cool::slight_smile:

hmm…I didn’t think Tigers hibernated. I thought that was bears. :confused:

Taxi, I don’t know if this is right or not, but I just tie the ends together leaving a couple of inches dangling off of the project then weave the ends in later. I usually do that with a crochet hook, but I’ve also used a tapestry needle. Think of it as running those couple inches of yarn into the other stitches. … hmm it’s harder to explain than it is to do, I think…

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Absolutely- my husband applied for job through HR and was recruited by a head hunter for he same position. On the same day he received a phone call with an offer via the headhunter and a rejection letter straight from HR.

CONGRATS!