Episode One hundred fifty-five: End of Song, Beginnin’ of Story…

We finish the background info to Flatland today (and you thought we were already IN the story, didn’t you!) and next episode head into… The Encounter!

Da Da Duuuuummmmmmm

This week some gluten free fun for you UK travelers and denizens (beer, cider, food, mobile phone 24/7 beer guidance), I wax rhapsodic over the CAMRA guide, find the 3/50 Project (yes!), and knit, knit, spin, and knit. AH! And I find a speed knitter (like the Yarn Harlot) who actually SHOWS HER TENSIONING!

Cool “knit in any language” translator (and one just for Finnish), ANOTHER book by Anahad (my former student), a Harper’s Article you might want to pass around, an article about a provocative statement by Harvard’s President (it’ll make sense when you listen to the episode), funny comic on centripetal force, and our December Incentive Winners: Andrew, Melanie, and Robin!

OH! And I forgot to say: I found an amazing blog post with a spectacular list of podcasts! (Yeah, we’re on there too, but there are new ones I’ve not heard of. V exciting!)

January Incentive book: Enchanted Adornments!

Book talk begins at: 22:30

Listen to 154 audio

Filed under: Flatland , Finnish socks, gluten, incentive fun, knitting, travel

Please Stand By…

Setting up here temporarily while we stabilize the craftlit.com site. Better safe, than sorry, eh?
For now, shownotes (though not comments) can be found at http://craftlit.libsyn.com.
Thank you for your patience while I edit 50MB of code…

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Episode One hundred and fifty-three: Happy 2010!

Christmas knitting (nearly) done. Still working on Welsh Heel socks for Auntie, sock yarn hat (for picture scroll down a bit)  pattern for the hat here,  useful tutorial for Jogless stripes, cool MixTape Zine and MixTapeZine’s editor’s blog, and nifty attached i-cord tutorial.

And the artwork for chapter 9:

And for 154: The Boys Are Back!

A link to their Vampire OpEd, and Plato, Heidegger, and Aristotle (which we didn’t talk about) and Daniel Klein’s latest fiction, The History of Now.

Last week’s iPhone extra! The Colophon pattern! Only available via CraftLit through February! Get yer copy now (and while you’re at it, check out Hunter’s other great work!)

Listen to 153 audio

Listen to 154 audio

Filed under: Flatland , Flatland, knitting, library, shownotes

Duh

Sorry. Too many moving pieces. thank you for the gentle reminder AbsintheMinded (GREAT name!)

Filed under: Flatland, Newsy Bits

Episode One hundred fifty-two: Recovery

Wedding: Done! (successfully too!)

Happy Sister (red) Happy Hub-to-Be (with Uke); pic by Abe Ordover

Semester Grades: Done! (mostly successfully)

November Winners: Posted! Gayle of CA will receive When Autumn Leaves by our own Amy S. Foster and Elizabeth of MA will receive Sweater 101!

Checkout the December Incentive Book!

Mack Hacks! Let me know if you’re interested!

Anglo-Saxon! On Audio!

Interweave books to check out: 101 Easy Wire Earrings, Sew Liberated, and Enchanted Adornments.

Some MathPhobe books we mentioned: The Number Devil; e=MC²; Gödel, Escher, Bach; Le Ton Beau de Marot; I am a Strange Loop (haven’t read it, but it’s by the same guy–and I loof him!); Danica McKellar’s Kiss My Math.

And, you know…the shawl and pin. Whoo hoo!

Shawl Pin (sterling silver hammered wire)

Wedding Shawl--blocked

Book talk starts at 30 min, fig 1 at 45 min, fig 2 at 47 min and fig 3 at 50 min.

Listen to 152 here

Colophon pattern by Hunter is on the shownotes for Ep. 153 and on the Library page–but only through Feb 2010, so hop to it!

photo of the Sister by Abe Ordover.

Filed under: Flatland , blog issues, book reviews, Flatland, incentive fun, knitting, Knitty, London Trip, podcast, shawl, shownotes

Wedding Madness

Here is the Wedding Shawl being blocked Monday night. Delivered to great happiness and acclaim on Tuesday.
Shawl pin made in sterling wire to reflect musical nature of the betrothed.
Countdown to big event in full swing, now.
I’ll be back with you (and A. Square) shortly.

Filed under: Newsy Bits , family, knitting, shawl

Episode One hundred fifty-one: Feeling Full?

Hope everyone in the US had a satisfying Thanksgiving–in every way. Food. Family. Fun.

Life is good on this end, if looking a bit beans-and-rice for the next bit. But I can’t complain. It’s certainly better than being A. Square.

Don’t forget to check out the iPhone/iTouch app if you have the right platform in your pocket or purse–should be available and working world-wide now. And know that I’ve triple-checked and the good people at Wizzard Media (where the podcast is hosted) are indeed working towards getting apps up for other smart phone platforms.
I am relieved. And excited.

iPhone app pdf from the previous episode.

November Incentive Winner announced in next episode.

Book talk for 151 begins around 13 minutes in.

Play here: audio

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Episode One hundred fifty: Embrace Your Inner Mathematician

iPhone/iTouch app is up and running. We have seven days to get it, rate it, and take over the world (or at least 50 million members therein).
Please enjoy responsibly.

Coming soon!
Interview Number 2 with the charming comedy team of Tom Cathcart and Daniel Klein (I’m not-so-secretly in love. Yes, the Husband knows).

My Dad’s melodious voice will only be gracing us briefly before he has to go rescue the university (or a small part thereof).

Many of our readers will be…CraftLit Volks!

Huzzah!

Do Not Fear The Math.

(Or maybe fear it just a little bit–just enough to respect it.)

BookTalk

begins around 20 minutes. Listen

Filed under: Flatland , book reviews, Craftlit Challenge 2009, Flatland, incentive fun, podcast, shownotes

Episode One hundred forty-nine: You HAVE GOT to be kidding!

O so many things to link to!

Here are some links to…gluten free flour mix, the Jean Reno movie Les Visiteurs, iPhone app info!, Flatland needs readers (text in left sidebar of link). More iPhone app information will come as I know it. Those of you who indulge, I’ll try to make sure the launch isn’t TOO bumpy.

Episode 149

Filed under: Flatland , Craftlit Challenge 2009, Flatland, London Trip, podcast, PSA, shownotes, start of book

And Now For Something Completely Different

Well, not completely different. We’ll still be working our way through a book…

I’m still on the fence about doing the Prologue to Canterbury Tales–mostly because finding a translation I like in the public domain is gonna kill me. (I got spoiled using that sterling one when writing curriculum.)

Regardless the Chaucer drama, there will be Flatland!

O yes.

There will be.

Narrated by my very own Dad. Ain’t he a trooper. He also has a lovely baritone, so I think you’ll find it soothing. Actually, come to think of it, he read Roughing it and Ben Franklin’s Autobiography to us before I turned 13–and I liked and remembered those books, so you have to figure he’s pretty good.

Plus he has a beard like Pa Ingalls, so how can you go wrong, eh?

Alice in Wonderland is tabled for now–all who wrote in agreed that the language play is too visual (like The Phantom Tollbooth) for you to really hear the jokes. There was a suggestion for The Secret Garden after Flatland…and I have to say…I’m intrigued.  I think it’s down to that or Connecticut Yankee.

Thoughts? Comments?

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