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Wordy
A linguist friend once told me about a second language acquisition theory: different people store languages in different ways. Some brains work like a giant filing cabinet: words, phrases, idioms and syntax are all neatly filed away so the brain … Continue reading
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Crossing the Line – Redux
Reblogging a post I wrote in 2008: Yesterday someone I knew roughly fifteen years ago wrote to me via Facebook. She asked me if I were dying because she had noticed my status updates on Facebook (and quite possibly this … Continue reading
Bricolage
The internet does weird things to how we are perceived and how we interact socially. Two recent examples: A New Zealander living in Scotland has contacted me through YouTube (where I have added a few Kiwi music videos to a … Continue reading
Injury Time
I thought the tragedy should be captured in majestic black/white and adorned with a Photoshop effect. Yes, it is my left wrist. No, I cannot knit. Yes, I’m icing it and am booking a doctor’s appointment today. And I’m typing … Continue reading
A Big Dose of Grrrrr
Disaster has struck – or, rather, my own clumsiness has struck. Last night I walked from our kitchen into the living room, closed the door behind me, and somehow my left hand got entangled in the door-handle. The wrist sort-of … Continue reading
Dictionary Definition
uncool /ˌʌnˈkuːl/ when you take a photo from a Ravelry user’s notebook and upload it to your blog without seeking permission. See also: cool (Antonym) Usage example: “Seeing my disembodied self on a foreign-language blog was really uncool,” said the knitter … Continue reading
The Other Things In Life
First of all, a huge thank you to Fineskylark and Paula. Ms Fineskylark sent me these gorgeous oak buttons (made in her part of Canada) and Paula has given me the official (and very cute) Ravelympics 2010 pin starring Ravelry’s … Continue reading
Books 2010: Ishiguro, Larsson
As I was reading Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (or Män som hatar kvinnor, Men Who Hate Women, a much preferable title which I shall use forthwith), I kept thinking about my previous read, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never … Continue reading
Frankie Says .. Gone.
This morning I packed my bag for work knowing that I’d be heading to knitting group after work. I zipped up my Frankie Says jumper on its KnitPro needles, threw in the pattern and was too lazy to fish out … Continue reading
