When you design a jacket with a zipper, can you please refrain from using bumpy cotton yarn with 12% nylon content? I have knit in cotton-blends, I have inserted zippers in knitwear, but I know better than do them both simultaneously.
p.s. I'm sorry I was so mean in the message I sent you. It wasn't your fault that instead of ordering the color "Terra-Cotta" I ordered "Natural", and found it was whiter than a KKK robe. I guess the yarn company and I have different ideas about what constitutes "natural." I was hoping for a more multicultural white, but that's not your fault.
p.p.s. And no, though I was naive enough to think you selected the ideal yarn for this project and ordered some yarn, I didn't cast on for the project. So I'm irritated, but it will pass.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Aha!
How we digress. I was just starting my (long overdue) Friday Bookshelf. First, I wanted to share an aha moment.
Just before bedtime last night, I was browsing the Daily Beast and saw an article -- Spilling My Family's Secrets, by Frances Osborne -- about a book I'd wanted read about her great-grandmother, Idina Sackville.
I rarely buy books until I've read them. I check them out of the library, and if the book is one I want to re-read, I will buy it. So when this book was first published last year, I put a library hold on it. But I was out of town when hold came to library, and when I realized the hold expired, my enthusiasm had waned.
Though I was half-asleep when I saw the article in the Daily Beast, I immediately perked up. I wanted to read that book and I wanted it now! So I went to overdrive, found it on the virtual bookshelves, and checked it out. Lovely!
While I was there, I "returned" a few digital ebooks that had not yet expired. (Books are returned automatically at the end of your checkout period). Heading upstairs I told me husband, "I just went to the library and checked out a few books and returned some old ones. In my pyjamas!" Then I got in bed and started reading The Bolter by Frances Osborne.
Just before bedtime last night, I was browsing the Daily Beast and saw an article -- Spilling My Family's Secrets, by Frances Osborne -- about a book I'd wanted read about her great-grandmother, Idina Sackville.
I rarely buy books until I've read them. I check them out of the library, and if the book is one I want to re-read, I will buy it. So when this book was first published last year, I put a library hold on it. But I was out of town when hold came to library, and when I realized the hold expired, my enthusiasm had waned.
Though I was half-asleep when I saw the article in the Daily Beast, I immediately perked up. I wanted to read that book and I wanted it now! So I went to overdrive, found it on the virtual bookshelves, and checked it out. Lovely!
While I was there, I "returned" a few digital ebooks that had not yet expired. (Books are returned automatically at the end of your checkout period). Heading upstairs I told me husband, "I just went to the library and checked out a few books and returned some old ones. In my pyjamas!" Then I got in bed and started reading The Bolter by Frances Osborne.
Alex Ereader by Spring Design
Judging by my irl conversations, I'm going to be blathering regularly about Alex, aka my Alex ereader by Spring Design, which I got in April. So here's an introduction.
The Alex has dual e-ink and LCD screens, so it is like a Nook with a driver's license. At $400, it costs more than superficially comparable ereaders, but has much greater flexibility in its functions. You can surf web check email, watch video, and add whatever 3rd party android apps you please. Smart phones are phones "et al"; the Alex is an ereader "et al". If you want an ereader and either don't have a smartphone (or find functions of a smartphone indispensable), then Alex is worth the extra cost.
For me the two deal breakers were: a no-glare screen for reading (knocks out sony), and ability to check out overdrive library books (knocks out kindle and some others). Having 3rd party apps is a perk, but a nice one! Especially the Knitting Stash app by Underhill Labs.
Regarding overdrive library ebooks, you do have to transfer the ebooks via your computer because Overdrive does not as yet support mobile devices for download. But when I'm browsing for books in a digital library, I'd prefer to have a full-sized keyboard anyway, and transferring files to Alex is not tedious.
More feedback on Alex (by me and others) is at mobileread.com.
The Alex has dual e-ink and LCD screens, so it is like a Nook with a driver's license. At $400, it costs more than superficially comparable ereaders, but has much greater flexibility in its functions. You can surf web check email, watch video, and add whatever 3rd party android apps you please. Smart phones are phones "et al"; the Alex is an ereader "et al". If you want an ereader and either don't have a smartphone (or find functions of a smartphone indispensable), then Alex is worth the extra cost.
For me the two deal breakers were: a no-glare screen for reading (knocks out sony), and ability to check out overdrive library books (knocks out kindle and some others). Having 3rd party apps is a perk, but a nice one! Especially the Knitting Stash app by Underhill Labs.
Regarding overdrive library ebooks, you do have to transfer the ebooks via your computer because Overdrive does not as yet support mobile devices for download. But when I'm browsing for books in a digital library, I'd prefer to have a full-sized keyboard anyway, and transferring files to Alex is not tedious.
More feedback on Alex (by me and others) is at mobileread.com.
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