I'm pretending Allyson was giving us some Zen lesson on understanding the silence of OoG.

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I'm pretending Allyson was giving us some Zen lesson on understanding the silence of OoG.

I'm imagining a dramatic reading. Allyson says, "The silence is about..."

And there is silence. A sound-effects guy, picking up on the silence, puts on "*crickets chirp*"

Allyson: "I said silence, dammit!"

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In space, no one can hear the crickets.

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I can watch Strictly Ballroom and Priscilla Queen of the Desert on continuous loops and still laugh all the way through.

I adore Priscilla. My friends and I had a blast playing drinking games to that once. Don't remember much of it, but I do know we had to drink every time their legs looked better than ours. Groundhog Day, on the other hand, I cannot stand. For some it's Meg Ryan; for others it's Julia Roberts. For me, it's Andie McDowell. She is the one actress who absolutely ruins movies for me. Only movie I can stomach with her in it is St. Elmo's Fire. And that's just because I love, love, love the rest of it.

HA! My review of Out of Gas. I said some things that turned out to be horrendously embarassing once I found out that Tim was actually reading them.

Hee! I've had this up on my computer meaning to read it for the last day and just got around to it. The embarassing part made me giggle. (Yes, I'm eight.) Giving new meaning to the term "star fucker," were ya? Fictionally, of course.

So a little while ago I came across one of Tim's old BBC interviews and there's this moment in one of the clips where there are sirens that seem to be throwing him off his train of thought and making him crazy so they stop for a bit and start again. And as they started again I could still hear sirens just the same and I was sitting here wondering if I was going crazy and hearing things or if they'd really paused tape only to start again with the sirens still there. Turns out, I'm dumb not crazy. Sirens at that point were outside my apartment, trying to give me soundtrack continuity. Very odd.

And now I have a totally nattery question for the hive mind: I'm teaching myself to knit. And the instructions I have are pretty good but don't say a thing about how to switch from one ball of yarn to another. I'm making a baby blanket so it'll be more than one ball. Do I just tie the ends together? And if so, is it going to be really hard to do the knitting thing around the knot? Help, please? (And yes, a normal person would think a text-based message board wouldn't be the place to beg for help for something like this but I figure if you all can put together marionettes online you can help me knit, right?)

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Ellemarie, it's sort of hard to describe this, but pretty much, you change balls at the end of a row. Finish a row with the old ball of yarn, then cut it, leaving a tail of about 6 inches or so. Then start knitting the next row from the new ball. After you've knit a few stitches and have the new ball integrated into the blanket, tie the loose end of it to the tail of the old ball, so you'll have a little knot right at the edge.

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There is nothing the buffistas do not know. This amazes me time and time again.

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and then when you are finishing, you'll weave the ends in. You can actually change balls of yarn anywhere in the work. If you aren't changing color, I find changing mid row easier and cleaner in the end product.

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Really? I've usually found that changing at the end looks neater. When I change mid-row, the knot just looks too obvious.

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Yep, I don't know why, but changing midrow works better. Especially if the edge is a finished one, like for a the sides of a halter top or something.

I think it's because when I weave the edges in, I can go in opposite directions and the edge itself remains pristine.

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It depends on the needle size and the thickness of the yarn.

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