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Oh well, back to my C&W presentation!

I didn't take very many pictures at the 4Cs SnB, but I did finally take them off of the memory stick. Here they are! I never cease to be impressed by the creativity of a bunch of Rhet Comp folks.

Pictures are below the jump. Click the title of the post to get the pictures.

Remember the bread that I was making on Sunday/Monday? Well I forgot to post pictures. It came out well. I am going to tweak the wheat recipe a bit and play around with add-ins for the white. Maybe I'll work with some whole grain white flour so it's at least a little healthy!

Here's the wheat:

Sliced:

Now for the white:

Sliced. The crumb and interior was much better for this one.

Now that I am posting pictures I am really wanting to make some more bread!

as my granny would say. Yep, snow in April. The world is coming to an end. The driving rain of the morning turned to snow by the afternoon and the dog wouldn't go for my suggestion that he just stay inside and hold it until the weather changed. *sigh* The odd wintry mix has inspired me to do some cold weather cooking. I checked the deep freezer and found both chili and beef stew. Did some thinking and decided to mix up a batch of No Knead bread to serve up with some kind of soup/stew for dinner tomorrow. I used half whole wheat flour so we'll see how that turns out. Since this process takes about 24 hours total there will be no whipping up a new loaf if this one fails miserably. I'll have to run out and find bread at the store.

On a more scholarly note, as I start prepping for my C&W presentation I am struggling with the ethics of using game ROMS and emulators for research purposes. My talk is going to cover some hand held games and I can't think of any easy way to record game play that would make decent video. The only thing that I can think of is using emulators and recording the game play from my computer. So the question is...is it still wrong if I already own the game? If a ROM runs in the forest and no one is around to catch me doing it is it still illegal? :-)

My friends (and I use the word loosely) down at River Knits have taken up a challenge. In order to get me to wear a pink shirt (in public) they are knitting socks for charity. If they all get their socks done I'll wear the damned shirt, but I won't like it!

Now Elizabeth is opening up the challenge to whoever wants to join. So here's the deal...knit the socks and I'll post a picture to the blog.

The details of the amended challenge are here.

In order to try to facilitate knitting related activities at future conferences and just to give us someplace to talk to one another, I have started a Google group for knitting rhetoricians and compositionists (at the request of others). If you're interested in joining in on the fun feel free to use subscription box below or keep an eye out for the posts on WPA-L and techrhet.

Knitoricians

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Just in case video games aren't enough to stave off Alzheimer's I decided to learn a new knitting technique as well. And because I can't do anything the easy way I decided to do a fairly difficult pattern to learn it. I'm making these socks:

Entrelac socks. I'm not making them knee highs of course, but there is something about the socks that made me really want them! After I cussed a lot and depended on the kindness of friends I got them up and going:

I am still working on my research, but there is nothing really new that I am really want to share yet. If you want to learn more be sure to come to my C&W session in the "D".

So it's that time again. When we think of Cs we think of knitting (and crocheting and tatting and any other fiber related craft) :-)

How would folks feel about a Wednesday Happy Hour for knitting. Last year we talked about taking the yarn bus up to Flying Fingers, but it seems that the bus has been damaged by a freak tornado that touched down in the driveway of the shop. (no shit, it really happened)

I would love to do a 6-8 dinner/drinks type thing again (but I doubt that I can trick my partner into coming this time). I don't know New York as well as I know Chicago so I would love to have a suggestion for a pub near the conference hotel.

As you see in the side bar I have finished yet another pair of socks. Still jealous aren't you? I used the Austermann Step yarn with Aloe and Jojoba for these socks of my own unventing. I love the hiking socks with the ribbed instep so that they fit snuggly around the middle of your foot (and I have to admit that I saw another woman knitting some!) so I decided to take my favorite simple sock pattern (read the one that I have memorized) and add a couple of inches of 1x1 ribbing on the instep.

I give you the Ribbed In(S)tep Socks.

Check out this ribbing!

Stand in awe, mortal!

I recently celebrated my sockday* and I have 7 pairs of new handknit socks to show for it. Jealous? Rather than showing them all spread out on the bed (where I have been rolling naked in them...just kidding) I thought that I might share them one pair at a time. Since it looks like this outside (yes, we did get 18 inches of snow)

No, the front door won't open.

Side View

I did shovel a path and clear an area for the dog so that I didn't have to put him out of his misery!

I decided that the best pair to wear with my Spiderman pajamas were the Maize and Blue Turkish socks that Laura made me.

I am a native Michigander and will always be a wolverines fan.

*Sockday (TM) is the brainchild of eight sock knitting friends who decided that it would be fun to knit socks for one another and have a sockday party every 2 months for the current celebrant who will get socks from the other 7 knitters. Last week we had Mexican food and margaritas for my exchange.