Month: July 2024
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Friday night fun: watching a 90min documentary on “The Oregon Trail” educational video game. (I’m not even kidding. This was a massive nostalgia trip for me and I learned heaps about the Minnesota tech industry in the 70s and 80s.) * Trivia – The phrase “You have died of dysentery” never actually appears in the…
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This is fascinating. I also really like the way they explain it, which makes it super clear and easy to understand!
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One of the hardest skills for new knitters to master is recognising and fixing errors. If you catch something quickly, you may be able to just un-knit (or “tink“) the last few stitches and fix it. But if you spot it a few rows later and you can’t face the thought of tinking all those…
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From Metafilter I discovered this long retrospective on the Breeders and consequently went down a rabbit hole reading about the lineage from Throwing Muses to the Pixies to the Breeders and then Belly. I was a latecomer to these groups, getting first into the Breeders thanks to Last Splash and then moving on to Belly. I…
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A lovely little video of the Breeders performing some of my favorite songs – mostly acoustically – among the redwoods in Big Sur. Still can’t believe I sold them craft supplies 14 years ago without realising who they were. 😂