techknitting, naming stuff
Monday, March 28th, 2011 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afunaI stumbled across the TECHKnitting blog and whoa, wow. I wanna knit like that when I grow up :)
Have gone through most of the entries, and even the smallest tips (such as this one which gives advice for pushing the left needle back when moving stitches around, without hurting your finger.
Equally awesome, she has an entry where she lays out how to fix a dropped stitch down the side, especially pointing out why the dropped stitch down the side looks so hard, and not twenty-four hours after I read that entry, I'd used the knowledge to fix something -- thrice!
Saved me having to undo and redo several hundred stitches each time :)
Got the second backup drive finally. She's Western Digital, 2TB, USB 3.0 and not too expensive. She also hase a name.
I tend to give my gadgets names, when I remember, and so far, I have, in the order in which they were named:
I think that covers everything!
I have a phone as well, which is unnamed because I thought that it would only be temporarily mine. At some point, about a year after my sister handed it to me (supposedly temporary), I realized that it was actually mine, but by that time it had just never gotten a name.
The series of USB thumdrives named Meowser/Data-fu (and along those lines) all met with a bad end. One got squashed underneath a falling laptop and is held together with tape. Another went through the washer, and a third just overheated as I was transferring data off it. So I got the message and abandoned that line of naming before I lost any valuable data.
Have gone through most of the entries, and even the smallest tips (such as this one which gives advice for pushing the left needle back when moving stitches around, without hurting your finger.
Equally awesome, she has an entry where she lays out how to fix a dropped stitch down the side, especially pointing out why the dropped stitch down the side looks so hard, and not twenty-four hours after I read that entry, I'd used the knowledge to fix something -- thrice!
Saved me having to undo and redo several hundred stitches each time :)
Got the second backup drive finally. She's Western Digital, 2TB, USB 3.0 and not too expensive. She also hase a name.
I tend to give my gadgets names, when I remember, and so far, I have, in the order in which they were named:
- laptop: Blanket
- blanket: MacBook (actual blanket, not a gadget, but named all the same)
- portable HD: Pillow / PILLOW-FAT
- USB thumbdrive: Baby Pillow
- ipad: Black Marshmallow
- HD: Featherdown Quilt (new :D)
I think that covers everything!
I have a phone as well, which is unnamed because I thought that it would only be temporarily mine. At some point, about a year after my sister handed it to me (supposedly temporary), I realized that it was actually mine, but by that time it had just never gotten a name.
The series of USB thumdrives named Meowser/Data-fu (and along those lines) all met with a bad end. One got squashed underneath a falling laptop and is held together with tape. Another went through the washer, and a third just overheated as I was transferring data off it. So I got the message and abandoned that line of naming before I lost any valuable data.
