It’s Furious Balancing

I [heart] the innernets. It nevers ceases to amuse me. So much information (and misinformation) so quickly, and so little time to read it all. I confess to being an information junkie. Not a “news” junkie who has to read the online versions of twenty different newspapers, but a Headline Skimmer, a Blog Reader, a Follow This Link Mouse Clicker who sometimes wonders how she got to a particular website when the last thing she knew was that she was looking up aggregious on dictionary.com¹ and somehow wound up spending 15 minutes on kittenwar.com before checking on travel packages to British Columbia.

So, I have a few Found Things to share with you and, towards the end, the beginning of a discussion on sock yarn because I am, after all, a (pending) member of the Knitting Kitty web ring and should discuss knitting at some point. Maybe I should just confess that I enjoy taking pictures of yarn.

Tonight’s ramblings round the innernets have yielded the following:

1. The first LOLCat I have seen of the Rhode Island hospice cat who has been predicting patients’ deaths.² Once you read the article, you’ll understand.

LOLCat courtesy of ICanHasCheezburger.com

2. This next one requires a bit of explanation if you haven’t been a regular reader of my blog³. I’m a The Lord of the Rings fan (the books and the movies both) and one of my side-barred web comics, DM of the Rings, offered this little tidbit today:

 

Courtesy of Shamus Young’s DM of the Rings⁴

Inserting a lengthy explanation of exactly why I think this is funny will make it unfunny, so I’m going to do that all in a footnote and you may read it if you wish. ⁵ Or not.

3. Blogging is up next. I love looking at the referrals part of sitemeter to discover how people get to my blog. I get a lot of hits for “denamarin,” but I had a few unusual ones today — “using a steamboat cooker,”⁶ “i can has peach,”⁷ “lolcats+sink blocking,”⁸ and, finally, “rubber vulture.”⁹

4. This last Found Thing segues into the knitting part of this post. I’ve discovered there actually is a web site full of yarn pr0n. ¹⁰ My own yarn pr0n is nowhere near as good as the pictures on that website. /sigh.

Koigu¹¹

This is moderately good (for a clueless photographer), but that’s not the true color of the yarn. It’s darker in Real Life. I guess I will have to take it outside tomorrow and photograph it in natural light on the back steps, my usual photo shoot location. Someone alert the neighbors.

Since I’ve been digressing here for a while, and need to take a break and go drool over yarn, I’ll save my post on “Why do I Have 10 Skeins of Sock Yarn and Haven’t Started a Single Sock?” for a later time.

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1. I was trying to determine if it was an acceptable alternate spelling to egregious. I saw another blogger use it, and wanted to find out if it was an alternate spelling or a whole ‘nother word altogether. [↩]
2. More than a few of my acquaintances mentioned this news story to me today. I’m an ailurophile and I have a “morbid” job (legal secretary specializing in probate and estate planning). Interesting Cat Story + Death = Tell Laiane. [↩]
3. If you haven’t — shame on you! I write about such fascinating topics as cats, knitting, punctuation, my obstinate opinions, and massive multiplayer online roleplaying games. How can you not be intrigued? [↩]
4. You can see the comic more clearly if you just go to Shamus’ site. [↩]
5. There are a few hints about it all in the footnotes at the end of this post. To sum up – I find the arrival of the Riders of Rohan at the gates of Minas Tirith to be one of the most stirring scenes (again, in the book and the movie both). I [heart] King Theoden; he’s second only to Faramir in my regard. I cry copiously during parts of The Lord of the Rings movies. Heck, I cry just reading the chapter “The Battle of the Pelennor Fields” in The Return of the King. Juxtaposition of Stirring Scene + Silly Caption = Humor. Well, to me anyway. [↩]
6. What the heck is a steamboat cooker? Oh, nevermind, I’ll go on a Google rampage when I’m done here. My own usage has been “Steamboat Willie” and “rice cooker.” [↩]
7. Apparently there is a greater innernet presence of this phrase than I suspected. My reference to it is in this post. [↩]
8. I have many LOLCats here (I even have a LOLCats tag, for pete’s sake) and I’ve written about blocking your knitting projects. [↩]
9. Edgar is in this post. [↩]
10. Intentional misspelling to avoid evil censoring software. If you’ve been on the innernets long enough, you’ve encountered this spelling before. [↩]
11. KPPM, dye code 1003, for you Koigu addicts. [↩]

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