Proclamation
Here’s my upcoming evening in a nutshell.
My knitting bag, a book for Dummies, the Liaden series finale, and . .. what’s that? The new Proclaimers album?? Thanks so much, Caroline!
Some of you may remember the story: How I was sent a link to the British Amazon site, but when I looked it up on the US version, it was, um, rather expensive. So, Caroline nicely offered to pick up a copy and mail it to me. (Can I just say how much I love knit-bloggers?) She’s got a box with yarn winging its way toward her right now–I shipped it on Saturday, so she should have it in a few days.)
I’m listening to the album right now and am definitely enjoying it. I don’t always agree with their political statements, but that doesn’t change the fact that the songs are good listening. That title track alone is worth the price of the cd–a toe-tapping, upbeat love song. (Well, you know, the “normal” price, not the outrageously-inflated “import” price.) And, speaking of these brothers, did anybody else know that there’s a musical, Sunshine On Leith, based on their songs? I had no idea.
Oh, and you’ll be glad to know that I actually spun for a few minutes last night. Not many of them, but at least I was in front of the wheel. That counts for something, right?
A couple links I thought were interesting:
First, on this, the anniversary of 9/11/01, this essay by Anna Quindlen about our (America’s) reaction to it–what it was, and what it could have been–was so beautifully expressed. It’s still such a sad day, in so many ways.
This one from the New Yorker about the encroaching “feature creep” with more and more “Cool New Features” on everything we buy, when, in fact, most of us never use them, even if we know how.
I thought this was a pretty interesting analysis about how our eyes actually, physically read … although I was reading it under the influence of eye-fatigue, so, that may have influenced my interpretation.
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It’s wonderful to have such great knit-blogging friends! It was awesome that Caroline was able to do that for you. I read somewhere that when we read we aren’t really looking at all the letters in the word to know what the word is. We usually see a few of the letters and know what it is (first, last and a letter in the middle). I thought that was interesting when I read that a few months ago.
Holy crap, I had no idea the Proclaimers were still recording. What a kind friend to help you get the Cd at a decent price.
Nice of Caroline!
That reading article can’t apply to me with only one working eye but that’s really odd that one would read letters like that normally!
that reading article was fascinating! i’ve often noticed that when i’m not deeply into a story, my eyes jerk while i’m reading. apparently the deeper i get the less i notice it (i doubt the jerking is any less, i’m not THAT good)
Hey there,
This is Caroline from SocialRank.
We’re launching a new Web 2.0 site dedicated to knitting and we have started indexing your blog posts as part of our content filter.
I’d like to send you an invite to a beta preview. Can you get back to me with your email address.
Mine is caroline@knittingfriends.com
Kind regards,
Caroline
http://www.SocialRank.com
So glad you got the CD. The knit blog community is so amazing!
I’ve read bits out of Quindlen’s article – very well said indeed.
Is it just me, or is it really hard to read that article about eye movement without feeling very conscious of what your eyes are doing? Sort of like trying not to think about a pink elephant, really …