Knittin' Crap: Harvey the Rubber Chicken

lineus (aka Kevin #2) took this awesome photo of the (knitted) rubber chicken I sent him, which he (or maybe his kids) named "Harvey." Pretty cool name for a not-so-rubber rubber chicken, and certainly less cringe-inducing than the lump of coal which the recipient named "Gary Coalman."

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Knittin' Crap: Birth of a Red Shirt

While innocently walking the corridors halls at HQ yesterday, to my surprise I espied my sr. officer director and accosted him approached respectfully to inquire about the status of Red Shirt #1. Red Shirt #1 was, in fact, safe and sound, but as my sr. officer director still needed him for another mission meeting, I agreed to leave him in his hands. Literally, because he is a finger puppet. I decided instead to make another Red Shirt in my quarters hotel room that evening.

9PM - Starting point

However, I got back later than I expected, so I didn't begin the endeavor until 9PM. Also, I had decided after Red Shirt #1 that it might make more sense to knit the puppet from the top down rather than the bottom up, as this would reduce the need to turn it totally inside out to finish the details on the head and sew in ends around the neck, etc. I had scrawled some notes on how to do that before my away mission trip, but this was the first time putting them in practice.

9:30PM - Hairpiece and top of head

10PM - Head finished and hair attached

I took a 20-minute break a little after 10. Then after I knit the first row of the pants, I realized I needed to swap the last two rows of red shirt color (a purl and a knit), so I had to rip out 3 rows. Around 11:30, I was really sleepy, so I went to bed, leaving the cast-off end to sew in and the arms to make. (I figure they're about 10-15 minutes each to make, attach, and dispose of all the yarn ends.)

11PM - Shirt done

11:30PM - Bedtime. Just needs arms

Knittin' Crap: Why Finger Puppets Are Not Voodoo Dolls

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Supernatural effects aside, when you stick a pin in a voodoo doll, nothing happens. When you stick a pin in a finger puppet on your hand: "Owie! That hurts!"

When you twist the head of a voodoo doll, maybe some stuffing pops out. When you twist the head of a finger puppet: "Owie! That hurts!"

When you set a voodoo doll on fire... get the picture? That's why finger puppets make really bad voodoo dolls. Unless you really do want to punish yourself, in which case, one would wonder why you need to wear a small avatar of yourself on your finger to do so. Actually, I wouldn't wonder, because I really probably wouldn't want to know.

News: Cats, Cats, Cats, Cats, and... Cats

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• A Colorado man was cited for tethering his cat to a rock while he went jogging as the cat didn't seem too keen on joining him in his run. There's no picture with the article, but I imagine it would look like this:
  
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• Mr Wu, New Orleans Bar Cat:
  
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  Well, cats don't leave the toilet seat up, for one thing. Oh, and I have total control over the TV remote. Except when Spoon sits on it.