Another - OMG I love Ravelry post.

Sly showed me how to do a SSK yesterday morning. I havent practiced it like I did the PFB and KFB so when it came time to do it ... nothing,

I went to the Tips & Techniques Forum to write a post asking about it and as soon as I put "SSK help" in the subject line a frame showed up on the right with all these previous posts with SSK in the topic.

W00t!

Like a fiery tear, a stream of molten rock creeps down the face of the Llaima Volcano in Cherquenco, Chile. The volcano, one of South America's most active, spewed lava for a second straight day.

You can have your cake and sleep on it, too, in Manchester, England, where Best Western Hotels marked 30 years with a king-sized confection.

Ten thousand women with sticks: Led by Sampat Devi Pal (foreground), pink sari-wearing vigilantes patrol Attara village in the Bundelkhand region of the northern Indian state Uttar Pradesh. The women are members of the Gulabi Gang, a band of 10,000 females battling for women's rights.

Olympians already feeling safer: If there's anything that strikes fear in the hearts of terrorists, it's Segway-mounted paramilitary policemen. Here they roll into action at speeds exceeding 4 mph while drilling for the Beijing Olympics in Jinan.

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Have the Chinese thought about the social fallout from introducing thousands of people from other cultures into their country?

Next I shall wiggle my ears: In case you were wondering, 7-week-old ring-tailed lemurs can indeed roll their tongues. (Bristol Zoo, England.)

I have started the infamous Clapotis and have thus learned how to purl forward and back as well as knit through the back loop.

and yes, there was much clapping when I finally went "Oh!!! Am I using the same stitch to purl twice? Ooooooooooooooooh!"

GIT! - Utah govt employees move to 4 day work week


In a yearlong experiment aimed at reducing the state's energy costs and commuters' gasoline expenses, Utah is about to become the first state to switch to a four-day workweek for thousands of government employees.

cell just went off at 11:56, and I've deleted all the alarms. It's not even one of the normal alarm chimes.


Does it know I'm getting an iPhone?

A delicate ribbon of gas -- a remnant of a supernova that occurred more than 1,000 years ago -- floats eerily in our Milky Way galaxy in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The supernova was probably the brightest star ever seen by humans and surpassed Venus as the brightest object in the nighttime sky, with the exception of the moon.

Dancing to music they cannot hear: In Jinan, China, deaf-mute performers practice a performance depicting the thousand-handed goddess Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, or Guan Yin, for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Paralympics Games.

Dribbling while Rome burns: Ninety-five-degree heat at the Colosseum causes a legionnaire to sprinkle his pate with bottled water.

China, home of first green Olympics: A swimmer emerges from coastal waters in Qingdao, China, the venue for the 2008 Games' sailing events. City officials are mobilizing 10,000 workers aboard 1,000 boats to clear the water of a massive algae bloom. They say the job will take two weeks.

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That …. That cant be safe

You can't be too careful: In Herrsching, Germany, where temperatures hit 86 degrees, four friends guard against dehydration, heat prostration and sobriety.

One good shove and they fall like dominos: Barn owl tipping in Amman, Jordan. (Ghamadan Zoo.)

Because Durbin is a goof -

When I find myself in times of trouble

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, letter B.

And in my hour of darkness

She is standing right in front of me

Speaking words of wisdom, letter B.

Letter B, letter B.



Whisper words of wisdom, letter B.



And when the broken hearted people

Living in the world agree,

There will be an answer, letter B.

For though they may be parted there is

Still a chance that they will see

There will be an answer, letter B.

Letter B, letter B. Yeah

There will be an answer, letter B.

Letter B, letter B,

Whisper words of wisdom, letter B.



Letter B, letter B,

Whisper words of wisdom, letter B.



And when the night is cloudy,

There is still a light that shines on me,

Shine on until tomorrow, letter B.

I wake up to the sound of music

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, letter B.

Letter B, letter B.

There will be an answer, letter B.

Letter B, letter B,

Whisper words of wisdom, letter B.

I'm in the mood for Abba because really, when doesnt Abba work?

my cell has started this random chiming on random hours. wtf it started at midnight last night

Just thought I'd let everyone know there's an article in today's New York Times titled Uncovering Evidence of a Workaday World Along the Nile that's rather interesting for us fans of ancient Egypt.. 

holy cow, am I having a panic attack???

I have this weird, free-form, floating anxiety about nothing in particular but my pulse is racing and I'm working hard not to pull out all my hair.

nothing is wrong, what gives?

Argh, every since I started working on getting my chi unblocked and running energy throughout my right outside ankle tickles from the inside.

I know it's just energy running, but it feels like a bug is on me. *shiver*

Gakked from Petrona.

This is the story of Private First Class LaVena Johnson of Missouri. An honors student who nonetheless didn't quite know what she wanted to do with her life, she enlisted in the Army right out of high school in 2003 and was sent to Iraq, where she died. When the Army returned her mutilated body to her grieving parents as a suicide, her dad, Dr. John Johnson said to himself and the Army coroner, "Somebody murdered my daughter and you picked the wrong person to fuck with." Fucking right.

When LaVena's father finally brought himself to look at his daughter's corpse in 2005, sent home from Iraq with a report that she'd committed suicide by shooting herself in the left side of her head with an M-16 — which, by the way, is not a handgun but a relatively long rifle, he thought there was something wrong.

Private LaVena Johnson's nose was broken, teeth were loose, one eye was concave and there were abrasions over her body. The supposed M-16 hole to the head was far too small for the revolver-sized exit wound, and was on the wrong side of her skull for a right-handed woman to have pulled the trigger. Her genital area showed evidence of acid, perhaps used to destroy DNA evidence. She had white military gloves glued to her burned hands.

Since then, the Army has continued to insist that the LaVena committed suicide by pointing her rifle with her non-dominant hand at the side of her head and set herself on fire, all after she beat herself up and poured acid on her genitals (since their was no apparent investigation into whatever happened there). Oh, and there was a trail of blood leading away from the tent where her body was found.

Her father has been trying for nearly 3 years to get someone — including Congress — to investigate the death of his daughter, which he feels was a cover-up or conspiracy in the manner of Pat Tillman. Of course, he's trying to get people to pay attention to his African-American daughter's "suicide" and not the friendly-fire death of a white male NFL player, which is probably part of the problem. Lara Battles, spokesperson for the House Armed Services Committee, told KMOV "At this time the House Armed Services Committee is looking into Private Johnson's case, but no decisions have been made for a formal investigation."

Want to do something? Go here for more info:
http://jezebel.com/5020732/lavena-johnson-murdered-by-her-colleagues-ignored-by-the-army

Care for a scoop? The latest restaurant to bank on China's national potty fetish offers ice cream a la commode in Hangzhou.

One man's art is another man's track team: The newest work by acclaimed performance artist Martin Creed is runners sprinting every 30 seconds through the London Tate Britain's neoclassical sculpture galleries. The "installation" plans a four-month run.