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Birthdays

donagh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:24:15 +0000

They rock.

Need to know

donagh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:46:50 +0000

Here is a picture that needs to be seen.

Orthodox Jews from the Naturei Karta group protesting IDF operations in Gaza during a march in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Not everyone in Israel supports their country’s policy on Palestine or the current invasion. Make of that what you will.

Reformating

donagh — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:55:50 +0000

I’m messing around with a new format, trying stuff out.

Flattery

donagh — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:47:19 +0000

They say that immitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Of course, when you’re in the world of academia they also tell you that’s the most heinous a human being can commit. But, if nothing else, I suppose it says that you think the person whom you are immitating can do something better than you can, of does something better than you would think to do it.

I find myself immitating Jared Flood, a knitwear designer from Brooklyn. He is my favourite designer (of things to knit), and I have a number of his designs in my queue. He also takes the best pictures of his knits I have ever seen, ever. So i’m trying to copy his style. Perhaps if I can mimic his photography, my knits will become as good as his.

Shut up, it could work.

Too much internet?

donagh — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:09:05 +0000

I’m wondering if I have too much internet. By which I mean if I have too much of an online presence – too many profiles and site memberships. That I use regularly, I have this blog, a Facebook account, an account on Humble Voice (an art sharing site), My Happy Planet (a language learning community), and Flickr, as well as two knitting communites – Men Who Knit, and Ravelry, not to mention Textkit, my Latin and Greek community. The website i’m learning Icelandic through requires a profile, and I have one on YouTube and a few forum boards I don’t use any more, and I think Blogger.

I’m wondering if I have too much of it. Is it a good idea to have all those profiles, all those little fragments of information about oneself floating around in cyberspace? Should I delete extemporaneous accounts and profiles, or does it even matter now?