Wednesday, August 13, 2008
WHOA OH BLACK BETTE!
SOURCE BLOG: Eitel Thoughts
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
12. august 2008
brokeback mountain
Gud, som denne filmen er fin, og utrolig trist. To unge cowboyer tilbringer en sommer sammen som gjetere på Brokeback-fjellet i Wyoming. Ennis er innesluttet og Jack er åpen, men de trekkes mot hverandre i et vennskap som glir over i et forhold med konsekvenser for resten av livet.
De fleste har sett den, men vis du ikke har, se den!
Enig?
SOURCE BLOG: Christine Modin
Friday, August 1, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
Mixte
This bicycle was built for my wife. She uses it to go back and forth to work and to take our son to the day care center.
The frame's chain stays are very long: 19-inches! This was done to prevent interference between her and the child seat. The long wheel base really makes for a smooth stable ride. This is exactly what one wants from this type for bike.
Fenders and a chain guard were added to keep her clean on the way to work. Lights will be added later. They will be needed for the winter months (we live in California so it does not get to cold in the winter).
This frame required a little extra effort due to the extra set of stays. I decided to go with a mixte design over a pure step-thru frame because this design is stronger.
The tubing is True Temper throughout. The main tubes are RC2 and the fork blades are FB2. The frame is very strong. This is the first time I fillet brazed the main triangle and I used Brazage Fillet Pro.
SOURCE BLOG: JP VALIENSI
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Madison's a YarnMartian!
This week, Alex and I have a visitor from Orangeville, Ontario, Canada. It's our grand-daughter, Madison Snow. Madi's a great little kid who was excited about the prospect about coming to Ohio to work at Yarnmarket. The ladies at Yarnmarket were thrilled at having a nice little girl to make a fuss over because...well...as I've mentioned before, being an online company we don't get a lot of visitors and we long for human companionship. 
Have you ever noticed how Lisa seems to get into an awful lot of our photos? She's also in the Yarnmarket introduction for the upcoming Knitting Daily TV show. But you never see her face because she's always hard at work. One of these days we'll have to get her to turn around for the camera.
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Madi got up bright and early this morning and could hardly wait to get to work. When she arrived, she was overjoyed to discover her own little work station where she was to pack up boxes to prepare them for Marlon, our wonderful UPS guy.
Lisa, Lynn and Pat went out of their way to make sure Madi was warmly welcomed to Yarnmarket. Pat created a special sign for her cubicle. Lynn and Lisa prepared packing lists and even created special "flower top" pens for Madi to sign,"Thank you from Madison" on her orders, and Lynn also arranged for a lunch for all of us -- complete with her delicious home-made macaroni salad. Lisa's 17-year old son, Patrick, dropped by with samples of beverages he makes at the local slushie parlor. Mmm... He even had one that promotes weight loss. (Yes, that's the one I chose. Do I look any thinner?)
Madi now thinks that work is great because you get to eat lunch for free and it even includes slushies and cupcakes.
Madi's first job was to take her orders into the warehouse and find the yarns for them. She was thrilled to discover that among the products she was to pull was a pattern for "Madison's Scarf" .
Once she'd collected all the yarns, she learned from Lisa how to pack them up and sign her thank you, and then put her box into the UPS bag to await Marlon's arrival this evening.
Have you ever noticed how Lisa seems to get into an awful lot of our photos? She's also in the Yarnmarket introduction for the upcoming Knitting Daily TV show. But you never see her face because she's always hard at work. One of these days we'll have to get her to turn around for the camera.Anyway, Madison has had a great day helping us out and entertaining the ladies with her singing, dancing and -- we suspect -- whispered comments that her grand-parents are raving lunatics. (Yesterday we taught her that the three most important qualities a girl can have are: intelligence, niceness and anti-magnetism...because if you're not anti-magnetic, you'll get stuck to the fridge every time you walk by it.)
I don't know what it is about Alex and me but we have so much fun saying the most absurd things to our kids and grandkid. A while back, we had our middle daughter, Laura, convinced that the world was switching to metric time. 100 minutes to the hour. 10 hours to the day. 10 days to the week. We worked out the most complex story and acted absolutely shocked that she hadn't heard about it. We told her we'd converted and were finding it difficult to adjust to the sleeping schedule. We figure she'll forgive us for this by...oh...2010.
Well, it's almost closing time and Madi's put in a full day so I guess I'd better go find her. She's a bright little girl and is probably re-structuring the company while Grandma and Grandpa are glued to their computers.
Thanks for helping us, Madi. You made a wonderful YarnMartian!
SOURCE BLOG: Shear Bagatelle
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
July 29, 2008
Blogs for Borders
Our weekly podcast -- vlog on illegal immigration and border security. In this weeks edition...
Our coverage of the rally against the enforcement of our immigration laws in Postville Iowa. Extra special thanks to those who helped fund the trip, thanks!
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SOURCE BLOG: Potpourri
Monday, July 28, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
The following picture was sent in by Alexis-RS, who said: "Is Kobe Bryant going broke? Investors say "no," but I say "yes" judging by the craptastic nature of his laptop pictured on the NBA.com homepage. Holy Kendrick Perkins is that screen small! To make things funnier, it doesn't even look like it plugs in, so once the battery goes dead we can assume he's going to spend the rest of the flight to Macao belittling his teammates and reading about squirrel-proof birdfeeders in Skymall."
Hm. I'm not sure the laptop is really as small as it appears. I think this is a textbook case of forced perspective, which is the film technique Peter Jackson used in the Lord of the Rings movies to make Gandalf's hat look extra pointy. And although you can't see it, Kobe's laptop is connected to a wire that leads to a small compartment in the hull of the plane where several midgets power it by running on midget-sized hamster wheels. Those same midgets are later crushed into paste and fed to Kobe's dogs. Which sounds cruel and inhumane, I know, until you remember that midgets killed your father.
Labels: fan submissions, Kobe Bryant, midgets
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