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John Burrage reviews Ocean's Eleven.

Want!

Knitting friends who have accounts tell me that it is like crack. Looking at the video showing the features:

http://www.ravelry.com/tour/video/preview

I am feeling pretty covetous.

I'm currently 5184th in line. Theoretically the site will be out of beta in a week or two; if so, I might be in the first wave of non-beta users.

In other vaguely crafting-related news, I made myself a pop suppressor this afternoon. (I did do a bunch of recording yesterday, but some of my consonants are a bit too explosive, so I'm going to rerecord everything again soon with the new pop suppressor and we'll see how it turns out.) It looks pretty much what you would expect a wire coat hanger with a set of pantyhose stretched over it to look like.

Confusing Dialogue Theater Presents

Me: "This is the skirt I'm knitting for my upstairs neighbor."
Craig: "Is this a sleeve?"
Me: "No, it's a hexagon."