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[charloween]

This weekend could have gone better. The less said about it the better.

However.

I have passed another knitting milestone. Two months ago I figured out "purl". Last month I figured out "knitting in the round" and "following patterns, more or less". This weekend I got my head around "that wacky four needles-triangle thing", and today I "made something I saw someone wearing, but didn't use a pattern or anything to go by".

I made a fingerless glove (its mate to follow tomorrow, I guess). Unfortunately, it looks more like a tube with a mouth. It's spent more time pretending to bite thucyken than being worn. Silly, silly, tube-mouth glove-thing. It looks like this (but black and less crappy ASCII-y):
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Comments

[deux.livejournal.com]

I have a pair of those!

...right now, they smell like a whole lot of rum.

They're comfy, though, omg I love them.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I don't like rum. :(

But yes, they're so comfy and I've named them Manny and Bernard. (hahahaha).

[guitarromantic.livejournal.com]

I saw the diagram first and was like "awesome, an A7 chord!" or something, then realised a) there were only 5 'strings' and b) you'd have to have a damn flexible thumb to play an A with it.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Hee! Sorry to disappoint. (Could've been a 5-string bass...)

It was the only way I could think of to draw the ribbing.

Except I was thinking Asus2

[philthe25th.livejournal.com]

That was my first instinct too.

Re: Except I was thinking Asus2

[guitarromantic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I knew A7 was wrong, haha.

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

Random question:

... you wouldn't happen to have the first season of Atlantis on DVD, would you?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Nope. But I do have a data disc with the episodes. I'll probably end up renting the box to listen to the commentaries or something.

An opportunity to grumble: season two is over, and season three won't start until the summer at the earliest. *grumble* Want more now!

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

Darn. 'Cos a friend of mine is desperate for it. I can just get all of the episodes of DC++ and put 'em on a disc or two...

I haven't seen the rest of season two yet, so I'm not that upset; I'm happy to have some catch-up time. :)

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I've got the last two to see, and I'm holding out on watching them for as long as I can. That way the season will last longer.

Shep is getting very scary. I liked him last season, and now he seriously terrifies me.

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

I've never been much of a Shep fan... :/

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I liked him because he was the cute, loping puppy dog/black sheep or chronic fuck-up who'd found a big happy family and purpose in life. Plus, he was pretty.

But now, all the gaps in his backstory are scary, scary vats of evil. These past few episodes you see that Sumner was right in not wanting him along on the voyage (...sorry). Shep is looking less like the hero who'd defy orders to save teammates and more like a seriously twisted and evil mofo who should have never have been allowed out of Antarctica. It's not like he's gone mad and declared himself dictator of the universe or anything, it's just that the damned inconsistent characterization (the doom of any Stargate character) has left a scary, scary picture.

The blankness was cute last season, because you'd hope they'd fill things in. This season he's becoming harder, more closed in, and quite impossible to read. There's no reason, no justification for being fine with some of the stuff they're doing. (I'm thinking of "Michael" in particular, here... a fabulous ep, btw.) Other chararcters are all "...wait, are we really allowed to do this?" and Shep doesn't give any hints what he's thinking.

(Again, this is probably the writers and the directors who are notoriously impossible at developing characters, and not the fault of the many fine actors they hire to be wasted on both shows.)

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

Ah! Spoilers! LALALALA! I can't hear you! *sticks fingers in ears*

... all the more reason for McKay to make Shep his bitch; to keep him in line and bring him back to the side of good! :P

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Eh, with Stargate character crappitude isn't a spoiler, it's to be expected. Seriously. No spoilers. Where have you seen to?

Indeed. Oh, for the days of 'testing the personal shield by throwing your buddy off the balcony and then giggling like mad, mad children'. Sigh.

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

I've only seen up to "The Lost Boys."

... and I was going to make reference to the personal shield episode as the only one in which I really enjoyed Shep! *laughs* That was adorable.

shepiddy shep.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Ack! Well, there's a lot to catch up on...

"Inferno" has an almost-lovable Shep. "Epiphany" is all Shep, but it's fluffy Shep. "The Tower" is pretty cute, too, and that's the one where Rodney has a minion-of-the-week named Baldrick.

But they're doing their best to have all the characters assert their heterosexuality, which is starting to grate.

Oh, and it's 100% okay to skip "Critical Mass". That's 44 minutes I'm never getting back. "Michael" is the best of the season, but "The Hive" is the best for Rodney. *nods* And so say I.

Re: shepiddy shep.

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

Even if an episode is cruddy, I can't just SKIP it. :P

... I don't know when I'm going to get to play catch up with all these episodes. Perhaps over the summer? :/

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes you can. "Critical Mass" is bad. Trust me. It's bad, bad, bad. Very bad. Mind-bendingly, head-explodingly, cringe-inducingly terrible.

I think the BSG is going to have to wait 'til summer for me. That, and two seasons of V.Mars. Hello no life!

Because I love you very much

[deleriumd.livejournal.com]

http://dryope.typepad.com/superfly/2004/01/pattern_for_jay.html

http://sweetgeorgia.planetfishdesign.com/archives/knitting/knit_jayne_cobb_hat/

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=19076.20

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try a Jayne hat soon, I think... and I hadn't seen any of these patterns. (There are at least eight others I've seen, so this is quite cool, I can mix and match. )

THANK YOU!

[deleriumd.livejournal.com]

I could not think of anyone else who would appreciate it more!

Plus I cannot knit, I'm terrible at it. I may try my hand at the Jayne hat.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

It's much appreciated, for sure!

I'm getting much better at knitting... maybe next time you're near Toronto we can take a crack at Jayne hats.