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All right, I've got a reasonably decent Seal of Rassilon knitting graph; I broke down somewhere around drawing the initial circle and fled to the services of KnitPro. The Heroes squiggle was simple, but the Seal was a little more complicated than I'm used to having to graph out. I might note that trying to look at it on graph paper is an eye-swimming exercise, given that the software rendered parts of the graphed design in different shades of grey as well as black. The end result is some very impressive optical illusionry, which somehow seems appropriate. The design is about forty-eight to fifty stitches across. I'm currently trying it out with my two yarns on what I think is a size four circular needle, and it's rather big even with a needle that size. These are sock yarns. I may be able to get away with stepping down a bit.

Still- fifty stitches is pretty big, considering that my size large fingerless glove pattern in sport weight yarn calls for fifty-five stitches to wrap the entire hand, and that on size four needles. This isn't a pattern to be rendered on gloves. I need to work out what it can be integrated into- I'll pull apart my initial knit-up of the thing when I'm done, most likely, rather than cutting the yarn. This is basically an exercise in learning intarsia, since it's a single motif that doesn't really obey Fair Isle conventions, not to mention that I'm knitting it flat rather than repeatedly in the round. I don't need to keep the initial piece any more than one needs to keep one's old gauge swatches.

Further bulletins as events warrant.

Why I should probably not be left alone with either GIMP or ROFLbot

A while back on one of the LJ groups I sometimes visit, there was a veterinarian who was getting very, very tired of being mistaken for the receptionist or otherwise being ignored by clients. Said veterinarian let off a bit of steam that would otherwise have resulted in some very bad vet/client relations, and one particular sentence of it caught my attention. Mostly because it sounded like something one of my RPG characters might say if he was annoyed enough.

( Cut for language that, frankly, *belongs* in the mouth of Harry Wells. One animated GIF, one plain ol' macro. )

The first pic is capped from the movie Dog Soldiers, which I have noticed tends to induce odd faces in old-school Whovians. As Sean Pertwee gets older he looks more and more like his father, and in Dog Soldiers he sounds and looks enough like Jon that the end result is "Doctor! In fatigues! Holding a big-ass weapon!" followed by ".... interesting vocabulary."

The second, the macro base, is capped from the movie Seven Days To Live. It's an awful horror movie with a script that reminds me of something I might have written in eighth grade, but it does feature gratuitous use of a hammer, the FLYING LEAP OF POINTLESSNESS, and the post-screwdriver-stabbination line, "I mean, look at this. You ruined my favourite shirt and a perfectly good kidney." There is nothing sonic whatsoever about either the screwdriver or the hammer.

Oh, good.

Roy "Dorkwad" Pearson loses $54 million trousers lawsuit.

Idiot. Idiot! What made this man think that any pair of trousers on the planet was worth that kind of fuss? What made him think that he could conceivably convince anybody that he was worth that kind of fuss, since so much of his case was predicated on "wah, wah, my TIME is VALUABLE"?

Stop being in my country, Roy, you're making my country look stupid.