So I finally caved and got a Pipos Mariko. Aaand I must say, I’m a little disappointed. Not that she isn’t cute, but she arrived with two left arms? Thats not a mistake I would expect from a doll that costs almost a hundred bucks. I wonder if its possible to just get a replacement arm? I know almost nothing about vinyl dolls.
She's beautiful and I really hope they get back to you!
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…
3322 square feet
Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
Hi fun fact!!
The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:
Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.
This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.
But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.
Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:
But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!
Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,
and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.
Someone port Doom to a blanket
I really love tumblr for this 🙌
It goes beyond this. Every computer out there has memory. The kind of memory you might call RAM. The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. It looked like this:
Wires going through magnets. This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1. Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:
You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is. But these are also extreme close-ups. Here’s the scale of the individual cores:
The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.
And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.
(little old ladies sewed the space suits, too)
Fun fact: one nickname for it was LOL Memory, for “little old lady memory.”
I mean let’s also touch on the Jacquard Loom, if you want to get all Textiles In Sciencey. It was officially created in 1801 or 1804 depending on who you ask (although you can see it in proto-form as early as 1725) and used a literal chain of punch cards to tell the loom which warps to raise on hooks before passing the weft through. It replaced the “weaver yelling at Draw Boy” technique, in which the weaver would call to the kid manning the heddles “raise these and these, lower these!” and hope that he got it right.
With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY.
ALSO, it’s not just “little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,” it’s “the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.” Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon.
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn’t use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you’re within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you’re usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.
The women who made the spacesuits were BADASSES. (and yes, I’ve tried to get Space-X to hire me more than once. They don’t seem interested these days)
I had no idea giant porcupines made fucking precious sounds
THAT’S THE SOUND IT MAKES!?!?!?
UN-BE-FUCKING-LIEVABLE
We got asked if this is cute and okay. I can very happily say yes, this is stupid cute and those are happy porcupine noises.
One of my favorite things about doing zoo work was all the noises you never realize the animals make when they’re excited or interested in a new thing. Coatimundis squeak and snuffle, and giant porcupines make that sound.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this video on my dash, so it’s time to bring it back! The information provided above is still correct, and was sourced directly from the zookeeper that takes care of this specific animal.
//So first official headcanon for this blog. Kindra enjoys Mori Kei: Forest Fashion (above) & Hama Kei: Beach Fashion (below)
“Would you go on vacation for $100,000?”
I would take people out at the knees with a baseball bat to get front of the line access to a remote cabin in the woods where no one knows where I am and can’t contact me, all for a $100k reward after the fact.
Look, a new company! :D
Margaret is 51cm tall. I love her torso sculpting!
Hey everyone!! I have put a Artifex Kindred / Twigling Elbe on order back in December [my christmas present from @thebastardofgloucester was his help in putting the layaway down ; ^ ; Thank you Martinus!!], to be my beloved D-Z!! [I also weighed @glyndarling‘s advice re:Gabriel from several months ago, but applied it to D-Z. When the preorder was announced, I realized that Elbe was the best match, not the Impldoll Aurora I had planned. A brief shoutout for hella useful advice–thank you!!] SO I am getting HELLA stir crazy waiting for her to come [yes I know it will be forever–I knew that when I signed up for Artifex Kindred preorder] and also nervous because finding clothes that will fit her that also match her style is…challenging. I have a number of doll projects in the hopper to keep me busy along with my PhD, but I can’t keep my mind off my incoming girl…
<b>So here’s my request: Do you have a Small Bust/Long Hip Artifex Kindred Body? If so, would you be willing to make me a tap form?</b> This would be an immense help and I will gladly pay postage [maybe even materials if you’re really strapped for cash] for such a kindness. If you do not have this body combo, please reblog!! Thank you all in advanced for taking a second to read this!
That is something I don’t have. I am happy to boost, though!
I have the A bust/smallest chest and long hip Elbe, but she is with a friend 😅 I’ll tag her, and see if she could maybe make one for you!
Here is my girl, Dynamene 💖 she’s a boss~ and honestly one of the most well crafted dolls I own.
@suwalo 💪 if you have a min?
I sure can! I’ll have some down time after the 3rd of March, that ok, @corvus-pica-pica ?
Oh my god–that would be perfect @suwalo!! Thank you all so much!! ; ^ ; Also @semiotickitten your beautiful Elbe is the one I saw that made me jump for that body combo. And that teal is AMAZING!!
Yay! Glad to help. 👍
Do you want the usual chest and hip/leg combo or as separates? I made this one with a friend and I realized later that we didn’t add tape between the legs so it’s only for dresses and skirts. 😂
[Oh my god your Olathe is adorable ; ^ ; ] If it’s not a huge pain, having the hip/legs separate would be a huge help–but if it is PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I can make one with combo hip/legs work if needed. Thank you again!! This is so sweet of you!!
Oh, thank you! I do love her so. 💜
And making them separate is not a problem. You're welcome, I'm always up for facilitating the sewing thing. 👍😉
Hey everyone!! I have put a Artifex Kindred / Twigling Elbe on order back in December [my christmas present from @thebastardofgloucester was his help in putting the layaway down ; ^ ; Thank you Martinus!!], to be my beloved D-Z!! [I also weighed @glyndarling‘s advice re:Gabriel from several months ago, but applied it to D-Z. When the preorder was announced, I realized that Elbe was the best match, not the Impldoll Aurora I had planned. A brief shoutout for hella useful advice–thank you!!] SO I am getting HELLA stir crazy waiting for her to come [yes I know it will be forever–I knew that when I signed up for Artifex Kindred preorder] and also nervous because finding clothes that will fit her that also match her style is…challenging. I have a number of doll projects in the hopper to keep me busy along with my PhD, but I can’t keep my mind off my incoming girl…
<b>So here’s my request: Do you have a Small Bust/Long Hip Artifex Kindred Body? If so, would you be willing to make me a tap form?</b> This would be an immense help and I will gladly pay postage [maybe even materials if you’re really strapped for cash] for such a kindness. If you do not have this body combo, please reblog!! Thank you all in advanced for taking a second to read this!
That is something I don’t have. I am happy to boost, though!
I have the A bust/smallest chest and long hip Elbe, but she is with a friend 😅 I’ll tag her, and see if she could maybe make one for you!
Here is my girl, Dynamene 💖 she’s a boss~ and honestly one of the most well crafted dolls I own.
@suwalo 💪 if you have a min?
I sure can! I’ll have some down time after the 3rd of March, that ok, @corvus-pica-pica ?
Oh my god–that would be perfect @suwalo!! Thank you all so much!! ; ^ ; Also @semiotickitten your beautiful Elbe is the one I saw that made me jump for that body combo. And that teal is AMAZING!!
Yay! Glad to help. 👍
Do you want the usual chest and hip/leg combo or as separates? I made this one with a friend and I realized later that we didn't add tape between the legs so it's only for dresses and skirts. 😂
Hey everyone!! I have put a Artifex Kindred / Twigling Elbe on order back in December [my christmas present from @thebastardofgloucester was his help in putting the layaway down ; ^ ; Thank you Martinus!!], to be my beloved D-Z!! [I also weighed @glyndarling‘s advice re:Gabriel from several months ago, but applied it to D-Z. When the preorder was announced, I realized that Elbe was the best match, not the Impldoll Aurora I had planned. A brief shoutout for hella useful advice–thank you!!] SO I am getting HELLA stir crazy waiting for her to come [yes I know it will be forever–I knew that when I signed up for Artifex Kindred preorder] and also nervous because finding clothes that will fit her that also match her style is…challenging. I have a number of doll projects in the hopper to keep me busy along with my PhD, but I can’t keep my mind off my incoming girl…
<b>So here’s my request: Do you have a Small Bust/Long Hip Artifex Kindred Body? If so, would you be willing to make me a tap form?</b> This would be an immense help and I will gladly pay postage [maybe even materials if you’re really strapped for cash] for such a kindness. If you do not have this body combo, please reblog!! Thank you all in advanced for taking a second to read this!
That is something I don’t have. I am happy to boost, though!
I have the A bust/smallest chest and long hip Elbe, but she is with a friend 😅 I’ll tag her, and see if she could maybe make one for you!
Here is my girl, Dynamene 💖 she’s a boss~ and honestly one of the most well crafted dolls I own.
@suwalo 💪 if you have a min?
I sure can! I'll have some down time after the 3rd of March, that ok, @corvus-pica-pica ?
Hi.
I’m your kid’s teacher, and I would take a bullet for your child. But I wish you wouldn’t ask me to.
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We had an intruder drill today.
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I have shepherded children through a lot of intruder drills. I have also, on one memorable occasion, shepherded children through a non-drill. When I was a children’s librarian in a rough suburb, armed men got into a fight in the alley behind our building. We ushered all of the kids - most of whom were unattended - into the basement while we waited for the police.
During intruder drills, some children - from five-year-olds all the way to high school kids - get visibly upset. At one school, the intruder drill included administrators running down the hallways, screaming and banging on lockers to simulate the “real thing.” Kids cry. Kindergartners wet themselves. Teenagers laugh, nudging each other, even as the blood drains from their faces.
Other children handle intruder drills matter-of-factly. “Would the guy be able to shoot us through the door?” they ask, the same way they’d ask a question about their math homework. In some ways, this is worse than the kids who cry. To be so young and so accustomed to fear that these drills seem routine.
And then there are the teachers. There is no way, huddling in a corner with your students, ducking out of view of the windows and doors, to avoid thinking about what happens when it’s not a drill.
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People really hate teachers. I don’t take it personally. It actually makes a lot of sense: what other group of professionals do we know so well? How many doctors have you had? How many plumbers? How many secretaries?
Over the course of my public school education, I had at least fifty teachers for at least a year each. So of course some of them were bad. You take fifty people from any profession, and a couple of them are going to be terrible at their job.
So I had a couple of teachers who were terrible, and a few teachers who were amazing, inspirational figures - the kinds of teachers they make movies about.
And then I had a lot of teachers who did a good job. They came to school every day and worked hard. They’d planned our lessons and they graded our papers. I learned what I was supposed to, more or less, even if it wasn’t the most incredible learning experience of my life.
Most teachers fall into that category. I’m sure I do.
Looking at it from the other side, though, I see something that I didn’t know when I was a kid.
Those workhorse teachers who tried, who failed sometimes and sometimes succeeded, who showed up every day and did their jobs: those teachers loved us.
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Of course you can never know what you’ll do in the event. That’s what they always say. In the event of an intruder, a fire, a tornado.
You can never know until you know.
But part of what’s so terrifying, so upsetting about an intruder drill as a teacher, is that on some level you do know. You don’t aspire to martyrdom; you’ve never wanted to be a hero. You go home every night to a family that loves you, and you intend to spend the next fifty years with them. You will do everything in your power to hide yourself in that office along with your kids.
But if you can’t.
If you can’t.
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When people tell me about why they oppose gun control, I can’t hear it anymore.
I’m from a part of the country where everybody has guns. I used to be really moderate about this stuff, and I am not anymore.
I can’t be.
Every day, I go to work in a building that contains hundreds of children. Every single one of those kids, including every kid that makes me crazy, is a joy and a blessing. They make their parents’ lives meaningful. They make my life meaningful. They are the reason I go to work in the morning, and the reason I worry and plan when I come home.
Parents usually know a handful of kids who are the most wonderful creatures on the planet. I know a couple thousand. It is an incredible privilege, and it is also terrifying. The world is big and scary, and I love so many small people who must go out into it.
So when adults tell me, “I have the right to own a gun”, all I can hear is: “My right to own a gun outweighs your students’ right to be alive.” All I can hear is: “My right to own a gun is more important than kindergarteners feeling safe at school.” All I can hear is: “Mine. Mine. Mine.”
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When you are sitting there hiding in the corner of your classroom, you know.
The alternative would be unthinkable.
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We live in a country where children are acceptable casualties. Every time someone tells me about the second amendment I want to give them a history lesson. I also want to ask them: in what universe is your right to walk into a Wal-Mart to buy a deadly weapon more important than the lives of hundreds of children shot dead in their schools?
Parents send their kids to school every day with this shadow. Teachers live with the shadow. We work alongside it. We plan for it. In the event.
In the event, parents know that their children’s teachers will do everything in their power to keep them safe. We plan for it.
And when those plans don’t work, teachers die protecting their students.
We love your children. That’s why we’re here. Some of us love the subject we teach, too, and that’s important, but all of us love your kids.
The alternative would be unthinkable.
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When you are waiting, waiting, waiting for the voice to come on over the PA, telling you that the drill is over, you look at the apprehensive faces around you. You didn’t grow up like this. You never once hid with your teacher in a corner, wondering if a gunman was just around the corner. It is astonishing to you that anyone tolerates this.
And the kids are nervous, but they are all looking to you. You’re their teacher.
They know what you didn’t know, back when you were a kid, back before Columbine. They know that you love them. They know you will keep them safe.
You’re their teacher.
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If you are a parent who thinks it’s totally reasonable for civilians to have a house full of assault weapons, and who accepts the blood of innocent people in exchange for that right, it doesn’t change anything for me. I will love your kid. I will treat you, and your child, the same way I treat everyone else: with all of the respect and the care that is in me.
In the event, I will do everything in my power to keep your child safe.
I just want you to know what you are asking me to do.
... well I know my next project when I finally have some down time. 💖
Ingredients: 1 cup of milk per serving. 1 tsp honey ¼ tsp of vanilla extract ½ a cup of brewed lavender tea Lavender buds or cinnamon Steep lavender buds or any lavender tea in ½ a cup of hot water. The more tea leaves or buds you use, the stronger the lavender taste will be. Warm a cup milk on the stove; be careful not to boil or else it’ll froth up and make a mess. Once warmed, pour in the tea, honey, and vanilla extract. Serve in a teacup and sprinkle lavender buds or cinnamon on top.
This sounds amazing! 😍
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Not like women have been telling y'all this since the beginning of time or anything.
I mean, yeah, at one point three years ago I was curled up in a fetal position literally screaming/crying/gasping for breath on my bed in my dorm room, so my response to this headline is basically, “No shit.”
No wonder women are so likely to ignore heart disease/attack symptoms. If something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.
THAT LAST COMMENT
!!!!!
No seriously. There aren’t enough people who understand how important that last comment is. I lost my right kidney four years ago because of “if something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.”
My. Fucking. Kidney.
Don’t force people with periods to internalize and silence themselves when they have cramps!
Can confirm “can’t be that bad because period”. I had a kidney stone and it took me like 2-3 days to realize it wasn’t my period because it basically felt like that. Pain is normal for women (and other people with a uterus), it’s part of being a woman, and so we’re much less likely to know when the pain we’re having is bad because we deal with so much of it some much more often than men do. Pain is not always a “something is wrong” indicator for us.
jesus. I never thought of it that way.
Every woman rebloging this
No Shit Sherlock.
Some 1,200 years ago, a wealthy noblewoman, at least 60 years old, was laid to rest in Peru—richly provisioned for eternity with jewelry, flasks, and weaving tools made of gold.
Now, more than five years after her tomb was found untouched outside of the coastal town of Huarmey, scientists have reconstructed what she may have looked like.
“When I first saw the reconstruction, I saw some of my indigenous friends from Huarmey in this face,” says National Geographic grantee Miłosz Giersz, the archaeologist who co-discovered the noblewoman’s tomb. “Her genes are still in the place.”
In 2012, Giersz and Peruvian archaeologist Roberto Pimentel Nita discovered the tomb El Castillo de Huarmey. The hillside site was once a large temple complex for the Wari culture, which dominated the region centuries before the more famous Inca. Read more.
