Here folks. Look at me, I’m being a knitting blogger. ain’t I being hip ahem anyway…

There’s not much to say about this sweater. It’s a derivation of Alice Starmore’s “Henry VIII” sweater from Tudor Roses. I basically knit it to the pattern, changing the sleeves to be a bit longer because I apparently come from a different racial stock than A.S., and we my friends have longer arms. I made a mistake with regards to the bottom horizontal pattern band, but I think it looks ok all things considered. Her version of course has bunches of colors, and is quite impressive. Mine doesn’t. The yarn is Knit-Picks Gloss, a silk and wool, fingering weight, sock yarn, which is delightful but doesn’t come in many colors. Also, I think the contrast is works pretty well for me, so I’m not arguing.

I make the joke that this garment, isn’t so much a cheep knock off, as it is a representation of the way fashion trickles down from the nobility to the peasants. This is a stop along the way, of course, and why I sometimes call the sweater Sir or Mr. Henry.

Here’s the sweater laid out on a chair:

Here’s a detail on the chair. Ok crapy shot, I’m really not one of those photographing knit bloggers you know. I do better--marginally at least--with words. Never the less, for your edification:

And finally a close up of the neck, because I took the picture, and I think it’s probably worth showing off.

While I like the neck of this sweater, this has proven to me that I really don’t do well with crew necks. They’re hard to wear and I always feel like I’m over dressed with crewneck sweaters. If I had to do this again, I’d open the neck somehow. Maybe that could be part of version 3 (because I do want to knit the sweater over again). Also, I think if I were going to knit it again, I’d put underarm gussets in the sweater, because I feel like it’s a bit tight there sometimes.

Stay tuned, more reports when I arrive and get settled in. There’ll be more knit camp blogging here.

See you on the flipside.

as the firecrackers and other assorted explosive rain celebratorily down on the neighborhood, I remembered that it’s a holiday today. I’m off work till next tuesday because of knitting camp, so that’s good stuff. I have to drive 8 hour tomorrow, so I need to finish packing/preping (well, arguably start packing/preping) before I do tomorrows blogging.

I haven’t yet decided where the knitting pictures should get posted. I think I’m making the decision now to post knitting contnet (pictures, reports from camp) here, on /tychoish. At least for the foreseable, that’s how it’ll be.

ok, pack first, blog second.

cheers

Empirical Questions:

A book of philosophy should be in part a very particular species of detective novel, in part a kind of science fiction. By detective novel we mean that concepts, with their zones of presence, should intervene to resolve local situations. They themselves change along with the problems. They have spheres of influence where, as we shall see, they operate in relation to ‘dramas’ and by means of ‘cruelty’. They must have a coherence among themselves, but that coherence must not come from themselves. They must receive their coherence from elsewhere.

(from Roughtheory.org.)

This is a passage, from Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, and I think part of why I like him so much. Maybe I’m focusing too much on Anti-Oedipus, when really DR is where it’s at. Hrmm.

Cheers!

tribbles first person to make a LOLimage of that wins my undying affection.

Welcome to this week’s somewhat late edition of Station Keeping I’m sorry about the confusion this time. We’ll return to our usual schedule next week. This episode was fun for me, it gave me a chance to explore story telling from an historical perspective, which is something that I think is pretty nifty. With luck this won’t be the last you see of Prof. Tiltsten, and I hope that this essay will help explain some of the questions that you might have about the station and our story.

The Necessity of Hanmist Studies, Part I

by Professor Jonathan Tiltsten

Unlike some other pivotal moments in the development of human colonial efforts on other worlds, many documents survive from the period just before and during the occupation of a space station in-orbit of the rim-world “Hanm.” Though in retrospect it is widely accepted, and obvious to many scholars of post-League political organization that the events on Hanm Centre were very important, if not key in determining the organization of human government for the next hundred years; at the time, the key actors in this milieux were not only unaware of their coming role in history, but also the importance of their moment. First a letter from the papers of Commander Eli Banner, the first commander of Hanm Centre, written shortly before he departed for Hanm:

Sometimes I think I’m getting too old for field assignments, but it’s better than getting fat and old behind a desk core-side, a lowly commander would never get chosen for a relativity cruise cycle¹. But I’m basically unattached, and I have some experience in the field, but who knows anyway. This time period never did suit me, and it’ll be interesting to see how the world looks on the other side. A of a long flight; not that the core will matter very much out there I trust. I just hope I get a chance to come back someday.

At the same time, the leaders of the civilian government on the colony world Hanm knew that change in the status quo, at least for their people, was imminent--and strictly speaking, it was--their opposition was to the league presence on Hanm Centre, not, in their mind, to the entire League, as it would later become.² Or the interstellar political status quo of the previous thousand years. Indeed it we now think that it would have been at least a generation on Hanm from the time that Eli Banner departed the core-side world until he and his convoy would arrive on Hanm.

This is an excerpt from an editorial circulated by early “Hanmist”³ shortly the Navy confirmed that it was sending a high level operations convoy after Commander Eli Banner left the core for Hanm Centre.

Above all, I would like to express my objection to the fact that the outpost currently under-construction in high orbit of the planet will be operated and governed by the League’s Navy. While an easily accessible space outpost in this part of the galaxy is not inherently objectionable, I would like to locate my resistance to Hanm Centre not in terms of resistance to the League at large, but rather in acknowledgment of the fact that the Civil authority on Hanm was not--according to the public record--consulted by the League authorities, and furthermore, the fact that the station is not to be administered or overseen by Hanmish authorities. Indeed, there is no reason that it can be directed and administered by the civil authorities on Hanm, who would surely be the best suited given their experience with the region.

As we can see, the seeds of the “Hanmist Separation” movement were significantly more modest than the militant movement that would follow in their name. In an age where the technology of space travel had paradoxically brought time and history to a virtual stand still, it took by the standards of the day, only a paltry handful of years for the Hanmist movement to sour. Though from our contemporary perspective this may not seem particularly remarkable, it must have been--particularly to the then unknowing Eli Banner.

“Historical Moment” was written by, `tycho <http://tychoish.com/tycho>`_, the creator of `TealArt <http://tychoish.com>`_ and `Station Keeping <http://tychoish.com/hanm>`_. He is a student and knitter by day and a science fiction writer by night, you can read his work elsewhere on `TealArt <http://tychoish.com>`_ and at `~/tychoish <http://tychoish.com>`_. ~/tychoish.*

Title: Listing Instead of Blogging

Ok, so with TealArt broken for the present interval, (they say it should be working soon, but who knows,)¹ I’m going to turn back to blogging here. It’s interesting, the lack of the blog, or at least the possibility of having a blog around drove me kind of batty. And frankly sucked some of the wind out of the launch, such as it was, of tychoish.com.

In lieu of a proper blog entry I present to you a list.

• I continue to be quite enamored of TextMate. It’s like the app to beat/use. Someday I’d like to have a firmer grasp of vim, but for now. TM all the way.
• I sort of jury-rigged a script thing for work using a Macro (which suprisingly enough I’d never done) a (very simple) regular expression and TextMate that saved me probably hours of my time. So I’m pretty happy.
• I need/want to find some way to set up and start using an off site subversion repository for all of my most important text files and what not. I have some learning to do on the subject, but this kind of things needs to happen.
• I’m running off to knitting camp on thursday, it’s going to be awesome, and I’ll try to blog about it. Here, if not on TealArt.²
• I’m going to have a post on Zimmermania tomorrow morning.
• I had a really encouraging conversation with the editor of another group blog. I might be able to blather somewhere else soon!
• I’m starting to get into the zen of my job, and while I think its still a deeply weird experience that I suspect will provide plenty of writing material for the rest of my life. But that’s how I tend to think of summer activities.

At this point in my writing of this list, TealArt has returned. I think my plain is: put up my monday post with an adendum tonight, station keeping tomorrow, knitting pictures on thursday, and Deleuze on friday, and we’ll return to our regularly scheduled program next week.

• I still want to write that Gatsby take off that I was thinking about last summer.
• My knitting for this weekend is almost done. The bottom part of a sleeve (the faster part), another 2 rounds on the body of a sweater, and some work on an all new sweater just for fun.
• I’ve realized that very shortly I’m going to have a lot of sleeves to knit. I hate knitting sleeves in the summer.
• I remain pretty freaked out about next year, and what with it being july, I think that I need to focus more on this. Sigh. Denial is kicking out.
• We’ll be in touch, I’ll be blogging throughout tomorrow.

Hi Folks! I meant to post this on the 2nd of July for our weekly letter. That clearly didn’t happen. I’ll blame it on the web-host, which is appropriate in this circumstance, but at least we’re on a newer better server. In an effort to minimize the damage, we’re going to post Station Keeping on Wednesday morning, instead of Tuesday, and knitting on Thursday. Sorry about that. I’ve missed this site in its little summer vacation almost as much as you have.--ty

Good Week!

I hope this monday is treating you well. It’s been an eventful week here at the TealArt offices, and it promises to be another eventful week.

I started my job last week, and after a slow start I think I’ve found a pretty good niche and have an interesting task ahead of me. The project I’m working on, though finite, will probably not be finished before I’m through with the job, (this isn’t a bad thing, just a statement of fact). I that this will require a certain amount of serenity in the long run. The other thing that this means is that my blogging time is getting crunched a bit, I hope that i can continue to cope, but I realize that there are things I seriously need to do, in addition to knitting, blogging, and work, so we’ll just have to see.

Having said this, I’ve started a new just-tycho blog. It was around last week at tealart.com/tychoish; but now it has its own home at http://tychoish.com/. I hope you check it out and enjoy it thoroughly. I’m enjoying writing for it, that’s for sure. I’m describing it as a failed tumblelog meets my personal notebook. We’ll see where it goes.

In terms of TealArt this week; there’ll be a new Station Keeping tomorrow, this one’s a really fun installment. All of the writers have, I think, something unique that we’re interested in talking about, and I think in an interesting way, it fits. While I’ve been writing a lot of the foundational materials for the series my personal project is think about the “history of the future.” It’s too familiar an idea for it to be original, but I think it’s an interesting idea. So this weeks episode is a personal indugence, and I’m quite alright with that. I hope you enjoy.

Remember, if you want to join the SK writer’s group, drop me an email and we’ll get you set up. Also, if you just want to contribute a story, talk to me and I’ll get you access to the writer’s bible. Any Feedback you might have would be great.

The biggest news of the week, is of course that I’m going to be at a knitting retreat/event from Thursday-Monday. This means another drive to Wisconsin (I’m doing this a lot, it seems,) and a lot of knitting to do in prep. I’ll try and take notes (and pictures?) so that I can share with you afterwards. I’ll have a couple of pictures of sweaters that I hope to post soon. I’m also going to have a post on Zimmermania in the next few days so stay tuned there.

Sorry for not having more for you, I hope you have a good week.

lord only knows what was wrong… most of the time our webhost is amazing, sometimes though, it sucks, and yesterday was a definite case of the latter triumphing over the former.

TealArt isn’t back up, so we’re going to be a week behind on Station Keeping, I guess, but we’ll see.

I don’t have anything for you today but I posted some neat things yesterday before the crash that I doubt anyone read, so enjoy yourself, and thanks for stopping by.

cheers, tycho