Midweek pieces
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magidmarriage license update
According to today's article, the SSA will now accept marriage licenses from the town of New Paltz (NY). However, the article doesn't mention whether the SSA will accept marriage licenses from the village (emphasis mine) of New Paltz, which is where the same-sex licenses were given. Hrm.
Bush monkey business
An artist has made a huge picture of the Shrub... made up of small pictures of monkeys. It was forced out of an art show, but now it's being projected onto a huge billboard in Manhattan, over the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. When it's sold, the money will be used to buy soldiers in Iraq body armor.
holiday gifts
Pinkfish pointed out some interesting numbers about The Swan, which is a show about women (is it all women?) getting improved, with surgery and exercise and such. What I found even more squickish was an article about how plastic surgery is now a hot holiday gift, including the "much more affordable" non-invasive things (injections and suchlike) as stocking stuffers! Well, heck, it's under $1000, that must be a stocking stuffer! Ick. At the very very very end of the article, they include a quote about how people (read: women) should have things done only if they want, not for their partners, but really, the rest of the article is about people giving plastic surgery as a (not necessarily discussed in advance) gift. And there are holiday discounts available, too. It makes me shudder.
yarn
I showed my boss the article about the crocheted Lorenz manifold, and not only had she seen it, she pointed me at other mathematically interesting crochet projects. So now I can think about making a Moebius hat, or a Sierpinski triangle shawl. Hm...
ETA: Above the hat instructions, it says "Knitting is very two-dimensional, but crocheting is basically one-dimensional...". Which gave me more insight into why it might be that crocheting is more intuitive to me than knitting. It's all points, that go together however I wish, rather than planes filled with lines of stitches.
PSA for local yarn users: Woolcott is having a 20% off everything sale Monday. I think I'll go, even if it's just to drool over their lovely yarns.
House of Flying Daggers (possible spoilers, I suppose)
Last night I ended up seeing House of Flying Daggers. It's a very beautiful movie, with gorgeous scenery, and amazing acrobatic fighting. There are crosses and double-crosses, and a couple of unfortunate plot holes that keep the movie from being as wonderful as it could be. Plus a complete lack of resolution of the 'greater issue', even when things have come to some sort of conclusion for the individuals. Still, incredibly pretty to watch (if you don't mind a bit of blood; it's a fight movie, after all). Plus lots of men's headgear that's historically appropriate, but looks incredibly silly to me.
hungry
Today is 10 Tevet, which is a fast commemorating when the armies of Nebuchadnezzar began their siege of Jerusalem. It's a dawn to dusk fast, the easiest one of the year (being in the winter and all), but I'm still hungry. Less than five hours 'til breakfast...
According to today's article, the SSA will now accept marriage licenses from the town of New Paltz (NY). However, the article doesn't mention whether the SSA will accept marriage licenses from the village (emphasis mine) of New Paltz, which is where the same-sex licenses were given. Hrm.
Bush monkey business
An artist has made a huge picture of the Shrub... made up of small pictures of monkeys. It was forced out of an art show, but now it's being projected onto a huge billboard in Manhattan, over the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. When it's sold, the money will be used to buy soldiers in Iraq body armor.
holiday gifts
Pinkfish pointed out some interesting numbers about The Swan, which is a show about women (is it all women?) getting improved, with surgery and exercise and such. What I found even more squickish was an article about how plastic surgery is now a hot holiday gift, including the "much more affordable" non-invasive things (injections and suchlike) as stocking stuffers! Well, heck, it's under $1000, that must be a stocking stuffer! Ick. At the very very very end of the article, they include a quote about how people (read: women) should have things done only if they want, not for their partners, but really, the rest of the article is about people giving plastic surgery as a (not necessarily discussed in advance) gift. And there are holiday discounts available, too. It makes me shudder.
yarn
I showed my boss the article about the crocheted Lorenz manifold, and not only had she seen it, she pointed me at other mathematically interesting crochet projects. So now I can think about making a Moebius hat, or a Sierpinski triangle shawl. Hm...
ETA: Above the hat instructions, it says "Knitting is very two-dimensional, but crocheting is basically one-dimensional...". Which gave me more insight into why it might be that crocheting is more intuitive to me than knitting. It's all points, that go together however I wish, rather than planes filled with lines of stitches.
PSA for local yarn users: Woolcott is having a 20% off everything sale Monday. I think I'll go, even if it's just to drool over their lovely yarns.
House of Flying Daggers (possible spoilers, I suppose)
Last night I ended up seeing House of Flying Daggers. It's a very beautiful movie, with gorgeous scenery, and amazing acrobatic fighting. There are crosses and double-crosses, and a couple of unfortunate plot holes that keep the movie from being as wonderful as it could be. Plus a complete lack of resolution of the 'greater issue', even when things have come to some sort of conclusion for the individuals. Still, incredibly pretty to watch (if you don't mind a bit of blood; it's a fight movie, after all). Plus lots of men's headgear that's historically appropriate, but looks incredibly silly to me.
hungry
Today is 10 Tevet, which is a fast commemorating when the armies of Nebuchadnezzar began their siege of Jerusalem. It's a dawn to dusk fast, the easiest one of the year (being in the winter and all), but I'm still hungry. Less than five hours 'til breakfast...