Bronwyn

People keep reacting to my extensive knowledge of fancy office chairs as though they don't also sit in a desk chair for 6-8 hours a day, when they do.

Though on reflection, before I got neck-and-shoulder pain from bad ergonomics I also figured a chair was basically a chair.

100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”

Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

To my surprise it turns out that I purl faster than I knit (though I still prefer knitting to purling)

Three images showing stages in completing a purl stitch, with wooden needles and dark green yarn. The photos are numbered 1 (top left) 2 (top right) 3 (bottom left). In photo 1 the working yarn is tensioned by the left index finger below the needles while the right needle is inserted into the front of the first stitch on the left needle. In photo 2 the working yarn comes up to catch the right needle. In photo 3 the finger tensioning the working yarn comes back down below the needles as the right needle pulls the new stitch through.

Meanwhile I've never been able to figure out how to tension yarn when knitting English!

In case it's helpful: I recently found out via a Reddit thread that I hold yarn differently than most "how to" videos for continental. I made this little composite to illustrate:

I would like to propose a syntax puzzles registry, for those nagging data sets we don't have analyses for, and others can claim them.

Adorable syntax puzzle, free to a good home style of thing.

Important potato technology.

Maybe I'm wrong and they do! But it would surprise me a bit, I confess. Though I'll say that scarce resources make interpersonal issues worse, so well resourced units may do better on average.

In my experience, absolutely they do not. Weird departmental drama appears to be much the same across humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Deep in my heart I believe that past failures were because the bags were not, in fact, Perfect.

I regret to report that I continue to believe, against all past evidence, that finding The Perfect Bag will miraculously improve every part of my life.

The cutest of dogs!!! With admirably straight legs!

Or "why not!"

The copy editor is having to deal with my extreme disinterest in consistent citation practices (as long as bibtex compiles, I call it good enough), so bless them for occasionally suggesting a location, but it is taking everything in me not to respond to queries like "Berlin?" with "sure!"

Save me from citation styles that still want an actual honest-to-god place of publication. It is 2026. The relevant location is the INTERNET.

Which is not intended in any way as a negative comment about other crafts! If anything it makes me more impressed when I see the results of sewing or miniature painting.

The great thing about knitting as a craft, for me, is that the ratio of prep time to doing-the-thing time is fairly reasonable, compared to, say, sewing or painting minis.

Whoo boy. And just as the last big fall had (mostly) melted.

Close examination reveals that the bacon has celery powder, which I could hypothetically react to (it is on the birch/alder cross reaction list) but would be a first.

Dear body: what, I ask, could I possibly be allergic to in a bacon and chicken salad sandwich? I am (very mildly) allergic to many things! But not usually bacon, chicken, lettuce, or mayo.

Yup! Turns out to be a much more complex set of alternations than I'd realized. Even I-mutation is more complex, since back vowels front but front vowels raise!

Correction: technically there is one such published analysis, and huge thanks to @q.pheevr.ca for sending me that pdf.

"Surely someone has published an autosegmental analysis of Old Elglis strong verbs," I said. "How hard could it be?"

Answer: no they haven't, and it turns out very.

Excellent! Honestly, I'm excited about getting slightly more into the contra scene, it seems great in a bunch of ways.

Wait, who else do you know! I demand introductions! (Have not contra danced much but planning to start)

book - beech (from bēċ with palatalisation caused by the same lost _i_ of the ending) if there had been no regularisation, which to my mind is even better...

Meant to respond sooner because this is even better! Endlessly charmed by i-mutation.

I assume you mean this to be helpful, but I'm afraid it came across as condescending, and also breathtakingly irrelevant.

Crucially not *quite* always. I feel if it was literally every time I might eventually learn.

The deeply unfair thing about social anxiety is that sometimes avoiding things for social anxiety reasons just gets you into yet MORE anxiety-inducing situations.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.