Having finished Pompeii in time for today’s Book Club meeting, I have returned to the Richard Dawkins readalong. And I find that the creation /evolution debate continues to be in the news. More than half of all Americans, according to AOL news reports, do not believe in evolution. A woman in discussion group last night claimed that all the fossil evidence was deposited in the flood (of Noah and the ark fame). I kept my eyes down; I like and respect the women in that group, even if it does seem to me that a literal reading of the book of Genesis requires more imagination than I have.
If you are still finding the subject interesting, I have some good online references for you:
Here is a really mean-spirited, dark humor kind of bit on the question of intelligent design. It does make some excellent points, but please consider yourself warned and do not click on that link if you are easily offended. I found it over at Swatch It, where you will also find some Fuzzy Feet action.
Here is one without the violence. And here is one which is not funny at all, but has a lot of points to ponder.
I am being a Fuzzy Feet spectator right now, though I have picked out the yarn for my second pair. I hope to make them over the weekend. By now, #2 daughter has probably received the first pair — she should have been surprised, because I lied outright and said that they were not for her. In reality, she had already told me that she had no slippers and was freezing (sob!) so she had to get the first pair in her coat-and-cookie care package. I am hoping to finish the fifth bawk before casting on for the second Fuzzy Feet. If you want to make yourself a bawk, here is a link to a free online pattern.
They are being “quaint.” Or more likely just silly. But that is a good way to do it.
And I think I will next time it comes up.
Hey, I want to place an order for some fuzzy feet. Those are cute! I’m afraid to know, but I will ask anyway, are you keeping up with the organized holiday plans. I bet your right in step with it. I will admit that reading it has gotten me better organized. Actually I’m glad they have all the xmas stuff out way early for people like me it gets me thinking about it earlier and I feel like I have more time. I never, never, never get the holiday card thing done if at all so getting me thinking about that is way so much of, A GOOD THING! : )
Thanks for the link! And thanks for expanding my vocabulary. I had no idea what a bawk was.
Thanks for the link! What a great idea as I had no idea what a bawk was. The cable pattern is a Saxon Braid. There are a bunch of sites out there with the pattern and they vary between 24 and 26 stitches wide. I’m using the one from knitty.com — it’s the most current issue, Samus sweater. I didn’t want a cardigan though, I wanted a pull-over (this is my FIRST sweater!) so I decided to take the saxon braid and put it in the middle and surround it by some six-stitch and eight-stitch cables. At least for the front….You can find the samus sweater here: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall05/PATTsamus.html
Thanks again!
50% of all Americans! – that’s a lot. Not really sure what the attraction of belief in the truth of Genesis is – I mean, according to Genesis all the begetting was of males who were begetted by males – that’s peculiar biology.
I agree with you about rehearsals being more fun than performance but if it weren’t for the performance at the end of things I probably would not put in the work at rehearsals. It was the same with dance exams. I really, really dislike exams of any kind but if they were not there I wouldn’t put in the work to actually get better ar whatever it is I’m doing (being fundamentally lazy that is). Perhaps I should have said that I’m addictied to the process of performing – learning how to do a dance, song, play and then getting to the point where I no longer have to concentrate on the technical bits and can start playing with the artistic bits.
Writing is something the same. People couldn’t understand why I wasn’t that interested in looking at the published version of the first paper in which I was involved but the fun bit (if often frustrating) was the actual writing and re-writing until the paper was ready to go seek its fortune in the world,. Performance, published paper – they are both an end and are sort of static – the moving which is part of a process is my addiction I guess.