Friday snippets

[magid]

Thanks to Queue for the pointer: directions to crochet a Lorenz manifold. I might try doing it sometime, as if I have time and all... And there's the question of where I'd put something that's that big. Still, it's very cool. And I like that the ripples I thought should be able to be used somehow when I was first learning to crochet actually model interesting things.

I have an alpaca sweater I just snipped the shoulder pads out of. Oddly enough, the shoulder pads are covered in navy alpaca knitting. Anyone want to unravel them and use the yarn?

I drank my first martini! OK, it was a girly martini (tiramisu martini), but it came in a martini glass, so it counts. I'd never have bought it myself, not at $10 a pop, but the work $holiday party was yestereven at Vox Populi, where they feature such things. Also, much Latin-esque verbiage on their lamps and bar; I wonder if Cnoocy could read it, or it's a total fake? (My Latin being far too rusty to try.) Overall, I still don't understand why people spend so much time at these sorts of places, but it was interesting seeing a completely different flavor of work holiday party, compared to $previous employer's (theirs are much more staid, a Friday afternoon in a hotel ballroom rather than an early evening in a trendy bar).

Comments

bizarre crocheted shapes

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Way back when I first learned to crochet, I made a bunch of weird little shapes by making each row longer than the previous; the Lorenz manifold is reminiscent of the weird ways they curved and coiled. I think I may try that project out, too . . .

Re: bizarre crocheted shapes

[magid.livejournal.com]

Cool; we could compare notes about how it goes.

(The paper mentions that it took approximately 85 hours of crocheting, btw.)

[psilocin.livejournal.com]

Regarding the crocheted Lorenz manifold (which is insanely great!), perhaps a smaller version could be made by using smaller yarn? I've never crocheted (yet), so I don't know how feasible this idea is.

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

It could be done.

[magid.livejournal.com]

As Ichur72 said, definitely, it could be done. Of course, the wire and metal parts would likely have to be scaled down appropriately as well.

I've got a copy...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an editor for the Intelligencer, and have a copy in my bag,
which you're welcome to borrow. (Also fun in that issue is the
mathematical Origami Quiz; that's in the Entertainments
column, which I edit.)

--Michael "no LJ account here" Kleber

Re: I've got a copy...

[magid.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you edit for the Intelligencer. Cool!

Thanks for the loan offer; I printed the PDF Friday at work (so the art's not in color, big deal). I'm curious now about the origami quiz, though. Maybe I should borrow it after all...

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued, not least since the authors say they'll give a bottle of champagne to anyone who succeeds in making one. (Makes me wonder if they'd spring for kosher champagne. I'm not so fond of champagne, but I have a good friend who is.)

My husband's comment: "That would be cool, if you could figure out something to *do* with it."

[magid.livejournal.com]

I bet they'd spring for kosher champagne (there's pretty pricey non-kosher champagne, after all). Though I'm not sure if it's for anyone who makes one, or whoever makes the next (third) one.

Like you, I'm not fond of champagne myself, but have friends who are.

As for what to do with it, all I've thought of is giving it to whichever of my math professor friends will be teaching about Lorenz manifolds... (Well, if it were a smaller one, perhaps someone who puts up an Xmas tree would be able to use it as an ornament.)

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, handing it off to a math prof is a good idea. I suppose I could use it as a giant windcatcher or something (I would have to make it fairly big, since prolonged crocheting with small-gauge yarn is so hard on my arms), but we really don't have the room.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I don't have room, either.

Put glass beads/ crystals along the edges and give as a suncatcher to someone with a large house? :-)