Harena @Harena@toot.cat

Knitty has added a beta search page for their patterns! It has two categories: yarn weight and basic type of pattern, but that’s a big help right there.

https://knitty.com/archive.php

#knitting #FiberArts #FibreArts @fiberarts

#parody lyrics finished

(from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Musical)

When you're all finished working it out
millions of years from now
will there still be any electricity
so you can print the question you see?
While you are busy doing those sums,
will I have things to do?
What can the answer possibly mean, sir
when it's forty-two?

I'll just wait for you.
And when it's all spelled out,
what is next to do?

Will I know exactly, in every detail
how I'm supposed to be?
Will there be instructions to explain my life,
mapped and laid out when I arrive?
Will there be answers filled in a form
that tells me what to do?
Will I still be so hopelessly ditzy
when I'm forty-two?

Maybe then I'll really understand just how to get along
in this messed-up place.
We can work it out!
Recalculate the world
Fix the human race.

Give me a clue now, show me your work --
how far have you got?
Have you squared the circle, found the end of pi,
got it cut and hung up to dry?
Just how close are you to getting it solved?
Please give me a clue.
I'm getting impatient - I need the equation
which equals forty-two!

https://woozalia.com/mw/When_I%27m_Forty-Two

So... back in February, this guy, who lives down the street from us, announced to the neighborhood listserv that he had a piano to give away. I, quite naturally, volunteered to help remove it for him, selfless opportunist altruist that I am. 😇

After considerable house-rearranging, it arrived this morning. $275 for the mover.

@Harena's 2nd-youngest is out in the living room hogging it now -- I think maybe he likes it, a bit, possibly. We've heard Beatles, "Mad World", REM, a few video game themes I think? These kids and their modern music...

Once upon a time, Pooh and Piglet wandered wistfully into the lake and cleaned the moor. He gamboled rapidly into the park and mangled the World Trade Center. He strolled cleverly around the atomic vector plotter and along the White House. "Great unexpected mortality distribution centers!", they exclaimed.

The End.

#Nextdoor post: Trans Day of Visibility

(h/t to @cwebber for inspiring the last line)

CW: double-headshot, but no eye-contact

cc: @Harena, who was a trooper in going along with me posting this in hostile territory

Did you hear about the airline pilot who sidelined as a boxer?

He was always in fight-or-flight mode.

I did a music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRWzvqyv26g

It's not finished, and yet for some reason I decided to do a video. ​

Also, I can think of at least 4 other songs that it reminds me of, or that I've sort of used bits of -- not enough to be derivative, though, I think.

@dredmorbius I'm trying to decide if this is funny enough to be worth re-recording, adding suitable documentarian music, etc.

Isn't it weird how "common sense" isn't that common at all? 😂