Nine Inches

Don’t mistake the title for anything lewd or bawdy. Unless you tend to get that kind of excited from knitting supplies. I know some people who come dangerously close to taking the craft down that road.

Anyhow, the nine inches I’m referring to are specifically of the Clover 9″ size 2 circular needles from Twisted Knitter I wrote about several posts back. I finally cleared my WiP queue enough to cast something on to the tiny circ and try it out.

One Rainy Geekend

It’s that time again.

No new games this Geekend, however, as I’m still playing Runes of Magic. I’ve gotten a few people interested and actually playing along with me since my post about the game last week, so it’s been fairly enjoyable. I’ve even begun working on a second character, a priest, as a nice departure from my rogue.

Geekend (Runes of Magic)

Sorry for the lapse last week; other priorities took over.

I did, however, find a new free-to-play MMO to fiddle around in, this time it’s Runes of Magic. This game is, plainly, a WoW-clone. In some ways, it’s a shameless WoW-clone (the GUI especially), but there are features which make it stand out as a fairly solid alternative to Blizzard’s dominating pay-to-play title.

Geekend (NeoSteam)

I’m gonna try a new weekly posting theme because I feel I don’t blog often enough sometimes. Every Saturday (or Sunday, if I’m feeling lazy) will become “Geekend” (like weekend, but geeky… get it?), in which I post about video games or other nerdy things I’m interested and/or involved in.

Rainy Day Package

I ran out into the rain to retrieve the mail today and was greeted by a small, yellow padded envelope from Janet of TwistedKnitter.com. She had tried out a set of Clover 9″ circulars and never really got a feel for them, so she was generous enough to give them away to another knitter who would like to try (and blog about) them for themselves. A small comment-based “contest” was held and I, surprisingly, won.

Bumps

While playing UT2k4 with Nate and Roy, we discovered an issue when we tried to host a match with interesting mods so we could frag one another late into the night. Nate decided to go fiddle with the router settings to see if it would help and accidentally bricked the router and killed the network [...]

Threadless

Finally submitted one of my original designs to Threadless and it’s now up for scoring. It would mean a lot to me if anyone who had a minute to spare could click the image above and score my design (you do need an account, but that’s a quick signup). The more scores I get, the [...]

Velvet Worms

It’s been a fairly lazy summer so far and the weather has been less-than-delightful lately, but today is absolutely gorgeous. However, we ran out of coffee entirely two days ago, so I wasn’t really up to writing a post, regardless of the weather, until I got at least two big cups of French roast into [...]

WHUNK-WHUNK

I left my computer on over night on Thursday to let it defrag after clearing out some old programs and other files from my HD to free up some space. Little did I expect I would be awakened at 8:30am yesterday morning to the delightful tune of “WHUNK-WHUNK-WHUNK” coming from my computer. I jumped out [...]

Wheeze

Yesterday started off well enough. Until we got home from morning errands to find our precious Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Spider, having a terrible amount of trouble breathing and generally looking disoriented and dazed. His gums were slightly pale and I decided that it was no time to piddlefart around and hope he snapped out of it.