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July 2013

Review: Knit Your Socks on Straight by Alice Curtis

Knit Your Socks on Straight: A New and Inventive Technique with Just Two Needles by Alice Curtis, Storey Publishing, LLC (June 5, 2013). ISBN: 978-1612120089, Spiral Bound, 144 pages. List Price: $16.95 (Amazon: $11.32 / Kindle: $9.99) In the past, I’ve knitted a couple of different patterns for two-needle socks. Each one was different and […]

Readercon 24 – Sunday, July 14, 2013

This is very late in being posted. First thing we did is start packing and get ready to check out. My panel was at 10:00. 10:00 AM – Digital Marginalia: A Conversation with Your Future Self Panel: Michael J. DeLuca, Gayle Surrette, Neil Clarke, Ruth Sternglantz, and David G. Shaw (moderator). Discription: Electronic reading devices […]

Readercon 24 – July 13, 2013 – Saturday

Checked the crack in the windshield and it hadn’t gotten any bigger overnight — big yeah. Just hope it doesn’t do anything awful until after we get home. Got a late start this morning, so didn’t make a panel until noon, missing two earlier ones that I really, really, wanted to get to. Just one […]

Readercon 24 – July 12, 2013 – Friday

Morning is not as fun as you’d think it would be when you’re sleep deprived. Just took a while to settle down once we were in last night. The hallways were quiet but some banging started outside our window pretty early in the morning — nothing out there on the roof except the usual hotel […]

Readercon 24 — July 11, 2013 — Thursday

We drove up from Brandywine, Maryland. It’s a 10 hour trip, or at least it was this time, we had some really good luck with traffic. However, it was a bit tense since we got a crack in our windshield. Crazy Glue on the inside and outside of the crack seems to have it stabilized […]