It’s (just after midnight at the time of writing on) Monday, and that means I’m already late for my “what’s coming up this week in TealArt post.” The answer: great new things.

There’s a station keeping story that I adore coming up, of course. I also, have to say that we’re gearing up for the “season” finale and I’m rather excited. It’s going to be a lot of fun to write, and I’ve put the ball in motion. I think that’s about all I’m going to say now. But I also spent a great deal of time this weekend working on Station Keeping stuff, and I have a really fun story (it’s a screen play, for reading, but still) that’s almost ready, and another one that’s all ready to write.

I’ve learned a lot from this season of Station Keeping, there are things that I’m going to do differently next season (but particularly in the season that follows), and I’m pretty excited about that. While I think I was hopeful that it would happen in a slightly different way, I think it was good that it happened the way it did, and we’ll see how it develops.

I spent a lot of time writing this weekend, particularly, a somewhat lengthy treatise on toe-up/stranded socks. This is a paying project, so I’m excited about that, and in reflection, while I was a bit cranky about my output this weekend, I’m realizing that I probably wrote about 5,000 words, which is nothing to sneeze at.

But you probably care more about what’s coming up on TealArt, and less about what I’m doing, becuase you’d be reading /tychoish if you wanted to know what the tycho was up to. Right? Right. Ok moving on.

There’ll be more regular experssioning this week. I do so love those, and as I learn more about Regexp, I’m getting better and writing “jokes,” so that’s good too.

I have something for Friday, but no great promises about what and how much, yet. These things happen.

And finally, I wrote up some particpation/submissions guidelines for TealArt, to outline and explain all the ways that you, yes you, can participate and contribute to the ongoing project of TealArt.

Thanks for being here,

tycho

ps. I’m extremely wiped (see the aforementioned 5,000 words, upon second count, I think it might have been more like 7,000 words, though I make no claims about the quality), and so if some of the capitalization is ahem particularly “18th century”, I apologize.

I don’t know if I ever get to say this much, but my favorite episode of firefly is probably “War Stories,” but I never get to watch it with people. sigh.

if there are any firefly fans (browncoats) out there, but…. I’m showing/sharing firefly to/with a friend. We watched “serenity” last week, and this week I can' decided to go in order and show “train job” or skip and watch “shindig,” or “jayne’s town.” Help would be appreciated.

I compleatly buy this argument about human/computer interaction, regarding UI and mutli-touch interfaces ala the iPhone.

I have to say that ergonomics both on this, and a more specific level (like keyboard layouts, and command line conventions) are of a great interest to me.

I have to say though, that being able to do something more multi-touchy with a track pad would be nice. We’ll remember that we already have the two finger scrolling, which I can’t really live with out, so having an additional command ability (like a second mouse click.)

Frankly though, the major coup of the iPhone is the pinch and zoom thing, which makes a lot of sense on a very small screen, but signifigantly less sense on your MacPro Cinema display, or MacBook.

Go figure.

In a discussion of so called “high culture” (literature, music, art) versus “agri-culture” (only in this house, I swear…) I got my father to argue against economic determinism.

This may only be funny to me. Regardless, I think it’s hilarious.

for judy, some links on steam punk stuff:

steam punk magazine

cool DIY SP projects. steampunk workshop and their keyboard that was all the rage a few months ago.

steampunk.com, which I don’t know very well, but it looks like it would be worth exploring at some point.

And of course, the wikipedia entry on the subject

cheers!

I have to say, that I’ve seen more spellings of Amiri Baraka’s name than I can count in the past few days. The best one so far:

Mary Baraca

Also:

Leery Baraca

You can’t make this stuff up folks

From the mail bag:

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I bet it’s a page turner too!

Thanks amazon for that moment of joy in my life.

I remember at times like this, why I don’t often have more than one serious knitting projects: you never have the feeling that you’re getting anything done, and you never feel like you’re any closer to starting something new.

Now, to be fair, I never simply have one project. There’s always one or two pairs of socks in my sock bag which I work on when the mood strikes me. I’d say, I probably finish 4 pairs of socks a year, give or take a few, but I don’t work on them very much. I also have the grey sweater, that I’ve been working on for years, but it has a lot of plain knitting, and it’s very fine gauge. Last summer I only knit on it at movies, and in the last school year, I probably knit, a total of like 4 inches: but I expect it of this project. But in addition to this miscellany, I have one, and only one project.

Almost always this project is a sweater, usually a 2 color sweater.

At the moment. In addition to the usual score of projects I listed above, I have 2 sweaters (ie. 3 sleeves), and extra socks in progress, and it’s driving me batty. Some of the socks are for my class so I need to get those done, and the other sweaters are close, but it’s hard to work on all of them because it divides your attention. While I have thrown one on the back burner for the present moment because of a somewhat intentional needle shortage, it still nags.

Sigh.