4 posts tagged “futurama”

WOO! I can't wait to watch it tonight with commentary. Wait ... why wait until tonight. I'm doing this RIGHT NOW.

Well, after I post this.

This is the Parallelograms Scarf (no, really?) from Knitting New Scarves. The whole thing, 70 inches worth, only took two days to knit. What a lovely and quick project. I checked the book out from my local library and may-or-may-not-have copied a few patterns out of it ... but I caved in and ordered a copy fro Knit Picks. I mean, they're having a 40% off sale. Why wouldn't I? I also picked up the Harmony Guides: Cables & Arans book. I have a few scarf design ideas. I really really want to start designing my own patterns.

Next up is a hat or two for a commission. The story goes like this. Ever since I finished my thesis, I've been at a loss of what to do at my computer lab job. I mean, before, I could write and research. But now I just sit there for seven hours. So. I started hard-core knitting while on the job (hence so many FOs lately). A woman saw me knitting, and asked if I'd knit for her. Pssh, why not? Easy money! And motivation to use up my stash of yarn. So my first project is the Twirly Top Toque from One-Skein Wonders.

Now I'm off to watch some tentacle-filled-sci-fi-cartoon-action-adventure goodness!
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That second picture may or may not be of me. I'll let you decide what you want to believe. This makes my 30th project, so I'm pretty close to the 33 mark and it's just hitting the half-way mark of the year. SO. I am upping the ante to 50. I think I can do it. 50 projects in 2008.

Also, I found amazing Futurama computer icons. Check it:
Al Gore's head is my Documents folder, because he clearly needed to be the most important thing on my computer. Bender is the downloads folder ("Warning, perform virus scan? I'm waiting for porn over here!!").
Morbo as my harddrive (just because he's awesome, as is my computer), Malfunctioning Eddy as my Windows partition (ooooo, burned Windows!), my external harddrive is the InfoSphere (seems logical), and Professor Farnsworth is my Time Machine drive ("So many loves half-loved. So many inventions half-invented. That damn time machine alone set me back 15 years.").

I have some other folders set with Futurama icons as well. My School folder is Wernstrum, my Knitting Patterns folder is Zoidberg (see my user icon for reference), and my Home folder is Clamps ("It'll be clamp this, clamp that, badda-climp badda-clamp!").

If you couldn't tell by my entry titles and constant references, I definitely am big enough of a Futurama freak to do this. And spend lots of time reasoning out who should be where and why. Now I'm off to watch "The Lost Adventure."
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I just got these in the mail a few days ago. Totally worth it. Although I know there are more out there somewhere, at least I think there are. One is a Golden Bender, from the episode "The Farnsworth Parabox." There are also action figures. I need to track those down.

Anyway.

I really posted to talk briefly about my current project.

I can't really say what it is, because it's a special gift for someone. But if you can read Japanese you can figure it out. Otherwise ... wait and see. :) This is a knit project, which is really nice because my knitting is a thousand times better than my crocheting.

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