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kaylarudbek) wrote2005-04-08 11:04 pm
kaylarudbek) wrote2005-04-08 11:04 pm
in which I ramble about knitting, dreams, and weird patents
how to carry small knitting projects with one: what a great idea
Another knitting link to remember: Loosen up This article actually featured in a dream l had last night; in the dream, I was knitting a scarf out of a ribbon yarn & the colors simply weren't showing up; I was producing a knotted muted pastel and I was reminded to start doing this & stop doing that extra fifth tug step. Then all of a sudden the stitches loosened up & got taller, & I was able to produce/see the colors I was working with. Then of course I was upset that things were not going to match, but the senior knitter I was working with said, "Don't worry. The tension will even out in the wash."
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ellid :
what I've been up to recently...making a big list... Now to get this much work actually lined up at work. Although we have a bunch of new clients, so there is work coming in. Now to get my fair share of it. Although I never know what to expect when I come in the door; sometimes what I think will be a quiet day with very little billing turns into a mad busy day (e.g. today when I walked in thinking I had only two things to do and it turned into mad multitasking after lunch), and sometimes when I think it will be busy, the clients don't pay and we don't work on their projects.
Wacky link from Making Light: Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane
Free Patents On-Line This actually works better than the USPTO in some respects because you can get the entire patent as a pdf, rather than one pdf page at a time. OTOH, not as searchable as the USPTO.
Patents:
Published patent applications This site is truly great. Where else can you find the U.S. patent application for a talking telescope? Or soybean jam? Or by industry categories such as fishing, trapping and vermin-destroying? And it breaks down applications by geographic locations, so I can find out how many US patent applications were made in, e.g. Wiltshire, UK. (besides esp@cenet, or the USPTO website, but this is a lot more fun) Caveats: 1) typos galore; 2) only searchable by title/abstract, industry, location, inventor, attorney/agent. Brooke's comment about the talking telescope and soybean jam patents: "Obviously there are people with too much time on their hands."
Mood explanation:
1) the weather
2) the fear that we are living in the latter days of the Empire & of cheap energy/oil & that economic collapse will occur within my lifetime, and that I should have gone into trying to find how to make fusion energy work instead of wasting my time with chemistry & law...minastir tells me not to be depressed about it because then everyone will be biking.
Another knitting link to remember: Loosen up This article actually featured in a dream l had last night; in the dream, I was knitting a scarf out of a ribbon yarn & the colors simply weren't showing up; I was producing a knotted muted pastel and I was reminded to start doing this & stop doing that extra fifth tug step. Then all of a sudden the stitches loosened up & got taller, & I was able to produce/see the colors I was working with. Then of course I was upset that things were not going to match, but the senior knitter I was working with said, "Don't worry. The tension will even out in the wash."
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ellid :My Unitarian
Jihad Name is: Sister/Brother Shotgun of Looking at All Sides of the Question.
what I've been up to recently...making a big list... Now to get this much work actually lined up at work. Although we have a bunch of new clients, so there is work coming in. Now to get my fair share of it. Although I never know what to expect when I come in the door; sometimes what I think will be a quiet day with very little billing turns into a mad busy day (e.g. today when I walked in thinking I had only two things to do and it turned into mad multitasking after lunch), and sometimes when I think it will be busy, the clients don't pay and we don't work on their projects.
Wacky link from Making Light: Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane
Free Patents On-Line This actually works better than the USPTO in some respects because you can get the entire patent as a pdf, rather than one pdf page at a time. OTOH, not as searchable as the USPTO.
Patents:
Published patent applications This site is truly great. Where else can you find the U.S. patent application for a talking telescope? Or soybean jam? Or by industry categories such as fishing, trapping and vermin-destroying? And it breaks down applications by geographic locations, so I can find out how many US patent applications were made in, e.g. Wiltshire, UK. (besides esp@cenet, or the USPTO website, but this is a lot more fun) Caveats: 1) typos galore; 2) only searchable by title/abstract, industry, location, inventor, attorney/agent. Brooke's comment about the talking telescope and soybean jam patents: "Obviously there are people with too much time on their hands."
Mood explanation:
1) the weather
2) the fear that we are living in the latter days of the Empire & of cheap energy/oil & that economic collapse will occur within my lifetime, and that I should have gone into trying to find how to make fusion energy work instead of wasting my time with chemistry & law...minastir tells me not to be depressed about it because then everyone will be biking.