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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Advent Calendar Scarves

Mystery knit along (KAL) projects are a lot of fun. You get to work not knowing what the finished project will look like as clues (i.e. more of the pattern) are released to the group at regular intervals. This year in late December, I discovered that some people design Advent Calendar Scarves, where they release a few rows of lace each day. These scarves end up being stitch samplers, and are a project that you can enjoy for all of December. As long as you have access to a computer, this would be a really fun project to travel with.

I already have a note on my own calendar to look out for the 2012 Advent Scarf. It looks like a lot of fun to me!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Knit Lace Shawl Pins

As I have been knitting more lace shawls, I have started looking into shawl pins. There are many beautiful ways you can hold a shawl closed without tying it closed. Imagine my surprise when I came across shawl pins decorated with images of knit lace! Fiddlesticks Knitting features these inventive shawl pins in addition to many other products.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Felted Birds

Not only are these birds cute on their own, but displayed on this tree this is a cute display for any season. I made felted birds of my own as Christmas ornaments, but I really like how these ones also have felted wings.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Nike's Knit Shoes

Nike is frequently at the forefront of shoe innivation. Their latest design (Nike Flyknit) is composed of an "intricate patchrowkr of yarn, cables and fabric." The concept of the shoe is based on the comfort and fit of a sock. Make sure you read the article to see a video explaining this incredible new innovation.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

A Bouquet of Knitting Needles

This is a convenient way to store your straight needles. In fact, I recently purchased a cup to create my own knitting needle bouquet!

Friday, February 24, 2012

Lace Knitting Books

Recently I have gotten into knitting lace. I prefer to knit by reading from charts anyway, but I am not sure what intimidated me about lace knitting. A craft that appeared intimidating is actually easier, and faster knits, than it appears. Knitting laces shawls goes so much faster than knitting afghans because even though you are knitting with thin yarn, you tend to use very large needles and the pattern changes frequently enough to keep your interest. If you don't believe me, then tempt yourself by reading this article that reviews a number of lace knitting books.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

In the way of my Kntiting

At first I thought the photographer was trying to make it look like the cat was knitting... but it turns out that the cat is so interested in the knitting that the cat curled up in their lap!

Photo credit debra via a Creative Commons License

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

No Knitting at the Bar

BOOOOO! Of course, I find it hilarious that someone had to make this sign, but BOOOOO! (And so much for Pints and Purls: Portable Projects for the Social Knitter)

Photo credit lergik via a Creative Commons License

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Happy Feet, Funny Face

These have to be the smallest knit penguins I have ever seen. And you know I cannot resist a knit penguin!

Monday, February 20, 2012

Knits Cast in Silver

I cannot say enough about the beauty of the creations by ashflowers2. She knits these pieces individually before casting them in silver, resulting in amazing lacy earrings, bracelets and more. These would make a great gift for the knitter in your life!

Sunday, February 19, 2012

A Simple Yarn Bomb

Simple and sweet, this should warm your heart.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Hand Dyed from Tuckerwoods Farm

I love to dye my own yarn, but I have never done this many skeins at one time!

Friday, February 17, 2012

Beautiful Pillows

There are a lot of amazing things you can do with multicolored yarn. These pillows are such an amazing home decor knitting option!

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Husky Headband

I received a wonderful Christmas present, a headband made of wool and dog fur! Sled team Huskies contribute to these Alaska Range Creations. I am not sure my aunt realized that I am saving my American Eskimo puppy's fur to have spun into yarn. I love seeing what a pet creation can be!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Valentine's Day Knitting Patterns

Christmas is not the last chance to show people how much you love them with knit gifts... Valentine's Day is a great opportunity to give hand knit warm accessories. Now, everything you knit doesn't have to be Valentine's Day themed, but there are many Valentine's Day knitting patterns available for free. (Don't forget about Valentine's Day Crochet Patterns!)

Whenever I knit something for someone, I think about how much they mean to me with each stitch. I love creating handmade things for gifts!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Casting on Clay

Reshape Studio whose tag line reads "Design to reshape the way we view everyday objects" as created one of the most amazing knitting projects I have every seen. These are CLAY "knit" tableware! I have no idea how these are created, but you can purchase them through her etsy store.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Twisted Loop Cast On

A few weeks ago I told you that I use the long tail cast on method the most because it was the first I learned. A big downside to this cast on is that you need to estimate how much yarn it will take, and you frequently end up wasting a lot of yarn in the tail. Enter the twisted loop (backwards loop) cast on. This method is great when you need to add stitches onto the end of a row, but it is also a great way to start your knitting project.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Fabulous Tree

I have seen may different "tree cozies" in my research for KPOTD. So often these are composed of squares or horizontal stripes, so it is refreshing to see a tree yarn bombing project with more geometry.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Unique Knitting Needles

What kinds of knitting needles do you knit with? Metal, wood, plastic, they all have different pros and cons. But why not take your knitting up a notch and use some crazy unique knitting needles? You can find needles in fun colors, and even some that light up at the tip!

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Tree Cozy

I've seen some good tree cozies in the past, but this one has to be the best tree yarn bombing (and best photograph of the final project) that I've ever seen. A lot of planning went into this yarn bombing project. Notice how the stripes work with the first fork, and how well the knitting fits around the trunk and branches.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Knitting Cells

The cells featured in the image below aren't knit, they have been needle felted. They are featured on a knit background, and I love that they are framed. I wonder where these are displayed...

Monday, February 6, 2012

Teach Yourself Visually Knitting Design

Teach Yourself Visually Knitting Design: Working from a Master Pattern to Fashion Your Own Knits is a book that every knitter should have in their personal library. While this book is more about original design than adaptation, there are stitch numbers that can help you convert a pattern for an adult to a baby. It is a handy resource to quickly calculate from your gauge swatch how many stitches you should cast on for that hat.

I own this book, and you should, too!

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Sticks, Hooks, and the Mobius: Knit and Crochet Go Cerebral

The exhibit Sticks, Hooks, and the Mobius: Knit and Crochet Go Cerebral ends today. I had the pleasure of sharing some of ChemKnits' designs in the exhibit, and I have to say the experience has been incredible. If/When I receive pictures from the exhibit, you can bet that a lot of the works will end up being featured here on KPTOD!

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Crochet Tricycle Cover

Protect your kid from the rusty tricycle left out in the rain...

Friday, February 3, 2012

Bike Rack Cozy

With this Yarn Bomb, you don't have to worry about any rust from a bike rack getting onto your bike!

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Theory Knitting

Theory knitting reconsidered. Am Psychol. 2002 Dec;57(12):1127-8.

"Theory knitting usually guides the theorist away from the segregative effects of masking the new theory—the failure to explicitly identify the theoretical construct that underlies the new theory or phenomena..."

My brain is starting to feel a bit tangled!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Amsterdam Bridges

Someone took the time to yarn bomb many bridge railings in Amsterdam. It would be fun to explore the city, counting how many bridges got covered.


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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Hump Day

Our main concert is tonight - hopefully it isn't raining and we don't suck. Hey, I'm a simple woman (hush) with simple needs - a dry venue and a good performance will do fine.

Meanwhile, have a little recipe:

I shall call this fat bottom dip - I mean, look what it did to the cat. Come to think of it, that cat's ass reminds me of something...hmm...oh, right...my fifty acre bottom!!

This is a simple dip, and I am fond of it.

The cast:
Olive Oil (cold pressed, extra virgin, organic if you can get it)
Rosemary, fresh or dried, chopped
Sea Salt
Fresh Ground Black Pepper

Pour a generous amount of olive oil into a saucer or bowl. Chop your rosemary and drop it on in there. Grind sea salt and pepper over the lot. Warm some crusty bread (slices or hunks, your choice). Tear into bite sized pieces, dip, and enjoy.

Easy, no?

Want to get complicated? Add some red pepper flakes. Warm the oil in a pan before adding the other ingredients. If there's any of the dip left over (hah!), you can brush it on potatoes before oven-roasting them. Use basil infused olive oil for a twist. Your options are limited only by your culinary imagination.

Let Daddy sleep in a little, Birdling - he's all worn out after four days of relentless you!

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Cost of long-term-care insurance going up, but it's still a wise investment, depending on your income

Judy Witte says her long-term-care insurance premiums
are going up at a worrying rate. C-J photo by Matt Stone.
Seniors are facing increases in their premiums for long-term-care insurance as insurance companies scramble to deal with increasing longevity of seniors and low interest rates that are "crimping investment returns," Chris Otts reports for The Courier-Journal.

Louisville retiree Judy Witte, 72, said she received a letter from her insurance company recently saying her premiums will go up by 77 percent, from $986 to $1,746 per year.

Her situation is part of a larger trend in which the cost of an average policy has increased by 6 to 17 percent from 2011 to 2012. Long-term-care insurance helps pay for the cost of assisted living, nursing homes, hospice care and home care.

In the Louisville area, assisted living costs about $45,000 per year and nursing homes cost about $72,000 per year and more.

People should buy long-term-care insurance if they can't afford the care they might need without dipping into their savings, Otts reports. "For example, someone who receives $100,000 a year in retirement income but spends only $30,000 might be able to afford an assisted-living center or nursing home," Otts notes. But if that same person spends $80,000 a year, then it would be a wise investment to buy long-term-care insurance because they would not be able to afford the assisted living or nursing home costs.

The right time to buy long-term-care insurance is between age 50 and 60. If Witte had waited to buy hers today, it would have cost her more than $26,000 a year, Otts reports. "To me, it's a precious possession," she said. "It helps me sleep at night to know I have this." (Read more)

  1. What a great post. I have been doing research on long term care billing for a while now. Thanks so much for this article. It really helped my research.

  2. The costs of long term care services depend on the type of information on long term care, the amount of care you need, the provider you use, and where you live. However always expect the rates to be higher than what you have expected. There's no exception, whether you are rich or poor the rates for this care are always daunting.


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Monday, 25 November 2013

That Part Where - Book Promotion

On my quest to promote my book I came across a blog site called That Part Where which encourages authors to post exclusive extracts on their blog. This is a great idea and the guys at That Part Where are really friendly and their site looks awesome. They kindly posted a chapter from The Running Game, which has been a big help and if you're a budding new author, or even a disheartened old one you might be interested in what they offer and so Ben from That Part Where has sent me some info over for you guys to read...

Hello, good readers of Limelight. My name is Benjamin Wallace and L.E. was kind enough to invite me here to tell you about a book promotion site called That Part Where.

First of all, I’m an author as well. I’ve been publishing and promoting my own work day and night for the last three years. You do anything for that long and you’re going to develop some pet peeves. I’m a generally grumpy person so I developed mine quickly.

The biggest peeve I’ve developed was promoting my work on price. I know my work is worth more than free and I’m sure yours is, too.

I decided I wanted to promote my books based on the stories inside instead of price. It may seem a departure from the popular “give your book away” method, but we created That Part Where because we wanted to do things differently.

Instead of price, That Part Where focuses on a book’s story by allowing the author to share a sample. It’s any scene that would make a fan ask, “remember that part where..?” when gushing over the book with a friend.

The other thing that bothers me about price promotions is their short-term effect. Sales over time, not a single spike, are most effective at raising rank and visibility on Amazon. We want to make the posts at That Part Where effective over time. When an author posts with TPW, we create a custom ad based on the scene they provide. The author can use this ad to promote the feature anywhere they choose, but we will also include it in our online campaign for 30 days to help drive traffic to the author’s post.

I always hated seeing my book posted to the top of a blog only to watch it drop in relevance later in the day. We want to drive traffic to your post for much longer than that flash in the pan.

Finally, we’re indie authors ourselves so we’ve priced our services for indies. It’s only $10 to post on That Part Where. That includes the custom ad and 30 days in our online campaign.

That’s it. You wrote a story, not a book. Books are cheap. Books go on sale all the time. But a story is timeless and should be treated accordingly.

Thanks again, L.E., for letting me prattle on here. And thank you to your readers for hearing me out. I’m hoping that with all our your help we can eliminate my pet peeve. Then I’ll get another one, I’m sure.
Please check out for more information. We hope to see your book there soon.

Stay tuned for more successful promotional experiments....

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Monday, 11 November 2013

The Pits - Greg Smith

My dog is seventeen - or near abouts. My other half picked her up at a rescue center a few years before we met. She is his dog - mine by proxy, although I have always felt very much like the "other woman" in our house. When my son was born I then became the "other mother" too!

She now has to share her life with two other dogs, four cats and a five year old boy. Her eye sight is bad, her hearing suspiciously tuned to the sound of the biscuit packet and nothing else, and her legs are more than a little bit wobbly. To rob her of the last shred of dignity she has we now make her wear dog boots and socks to protect her feet. Still she bears this with remarkable good grace.

Our other animals are all rescue animals, except for one cat who showed up in our kitchen one day and demanded food - she's been with us ever since. So when Greg Smith contacted me with his latest book The Pits I felt that I had found a kindred spirit.

The Pits is a book about a man and his dog, which all dog lovers - in fact animal lovers - can get behind. And Greg is donating half of his royalties to animal charities, so if you are going to read one book this year let it be this one. Here's an extract and as we are moving up in the world a video too!

The Pits (extract) - Greg Smith

Close by, a handful of weeping men loaded a civilian pickup truck with bodies, each wrapped in blood-soaked cloth. A group of distraught women mixed with them, wailing and grasping at each bundle being handled. Overwrought by their gruesome task, they were totally oblivious of the poor bewildered individual sitting quietly among their shuffling feet.

A runty tan pup sat sorrowfully beside one particular body. Occasionally it raised a paw and tentatively touched the bloody cloth, or prodded it with its nose. Kramer observed transfixed as the pup peered at the people, then at the small bundle of cloth, then at the people again. Then the pup nuzzled the bundle as if trying to awaken the person wrapped inside.

A grief-stricken man knelt and reverently lifted the tiny body. Judging by his age, he’s likely the father. As he stood, the pup whimpered as if to say, hey, wait a moment. The wailing increased as hands passed the body up to a blood-streaked villager standing in the back of the pickup. Just as he turned to place the bundle with the others, a gust of wind flipped up a corner of the cloth, revealing a tiny hand. Instinctively, Kramer felt that it belonged to a very young girl.

With the last victim onboard, the pickup started up and pulled away. The men and women mourners followed close behind trying to comfort each other as best as they could. The procession gradually left the square, disappearing from view as a waiting throng swarmed after it as it passed into a nearby street.

A strange silence fell over the square. It seemed as if the few remaining locals and all the Marines had their attention riveted on the lonely pup still sitting in the road. It hadn’t left that spot in all this time. Now it sat there staring after the pickup and those following it.

Captain Kramer crossed the street and gently lifted the pup. An expression of pure unadulterated love met his eyes. A light sparkled behind those dark brown eyes that he couldn’t describe. He just felt it.

“Well, hello there, little guy. Looks like everyone’s gone and left you all alone. Ain’t fair, is it? What say I do something about that.”

The pup didn’t squirm or attempt to get away. It merely fixed its eyes on him as if it knew that this person would care for it, keep it safe, and maybe even feed it occasionally. As the six-foot-six Kramer cradled the puny creature in his arms, he was oblivious to the gazes directed his way from all around the square.

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Thursday, 7 November 2013

Flight of the Vajra - Serdar Yegulalp

The weather doesn't seem to be letting up, there's no point even thinking about going out. So settle down and have a look at Serdar Yegulalp's book Flight of the Vajra.

Here's the blurb for the book:

At first they were only three. A brilliant starship designer, haunted by the death of his loved ones. A spiritual leader whose faith could transform mankind ... or destroy it. A precocious acrobat girl, looking for a new family of her own.
Then came others. An entertainer and playboy whose dissolute lifestyle conceals unexpected ambitions, courtesy of a lover who represents the galaxy's most powerful worlds. And a pair of detectives--one barely human, the other not at all--with orders to enlist all their help solving a crime that threatens civilization.
Together they formed the crew of the ever-evolving spacecraft Vajra. Seven against a universe where the boundaries between matter and mind have been torn down, where one can wield the power of billions ... and where humanity must choose between rebirth or annihilation.
"Nature likes those who surrender to her but she loves those who do not"

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Flight of the Vajra (Extract) - Serdar Yegulalp

I went dancing with my wife the night she died.
My wife, my daughter, and my best friend; they’d all been with me that night in the main ballroom of my luxury liner, the Kyritan.
That ship wasn’t supposed to have been their coffin, but since it had been theirs it ought to have been mine as well.
I’ve got any number of pictures of my wife Biann — a chemical contact-print portrait made by an old uncle who dabbled in the art; a drawing in happy, shaky lines my daughter made when she was three; a whole mess of optical data dumps straight from my cortical link. None are like what I see when I close my eyes and remember Biann dancing step-two-three, stamp-two-three, back and forth in time to my own movements across the ballroom floor. She, like me, was from an Old Way world — we both had CLs, but not much beyond that. Not much selective engineering in her family or on her world (or mine), so her long legs and high forehead and wide grey eyes were all the prettier because no one had made them that way.
She had on a high-collared, close-fitting dress with a cape that flared and ballooned with each snap of her body, a third of which she hid behind that giant fur-and-feather trimmed fan whose colors reminded me of a whole day’s worth of sky. Her dress was protomic, and so she changed it in mid-dance between that high-collar outfit to something like a flamenco skirt and back again. The fan had been handmade out of plain old regular material and didn’t change into anything else, but that was magic enough by itself. Doubly so when it was in Biann’s hand.
When you’re Old Way, you work that much more to set aside space in your life for such miracles.
I’m a lot less Old Way now than I was then. And for a long time, to my ears, miracle was just a nicer word for accident.
My six-year-old daughter, Yezmé, didn’t join us at first. She’d spent most of her time during that cruise with her face pressed to one window or another, staring out at whatever gas cloud or high-orbit view there was to be seen. Sometimes even if there was nothing to see at all, she’d take up a post next to the window and stare out anyway. If I tried to get her attention she’d put her finger to her lips and “Sh!” at me. I think I did that to her once when I was hard at work on that ship, plowing through a pile of hull fluid-dynamics tests, and she’d since picked up on it herself and ran with it. It’s what grownups do when they’re being serious, and every kid in his heart wants to be taken oh so seriously. Then the kid grows up and wonders what she was in such a rush to get rid of.
“May I have this dance?” I asked her.
She was oh so serious as she faced me, stood up, and took my hand. Her own little dress was protomic as well, and she re-patterned it after whatever her mother was wearing after a few sulky seconds. Even that sulking, I loved.
On the Kyritan, I felt more than safe; I felt lordly. It was, after all, mine — or, rather, ours. My name, Henré Sim, on the builder’s plate, followed closely by my co-designer’s, Cavafy Enno. We’d spent three years building the first iteration of the Kyritan and its eleven sister luxury liners for Exoluft, with me plotting every curve and tracing every morphic variation I or Cavafy or any of the other designers could anticipate a need for. On the water, it was a luxury liner; then, after dismantling and reassembling itself, it was a series of train cars for any planet’s elevator; then dismantled and reassembled in space once more, it was another and entirely different luxury liner. And that had been only the beginning of what Cavafy and I had planned for Exoluft’s future line of luxury vessels — before disaster and disgrace and self-exile, that is.
Cavafy had been there that night himself, a fresh drink always in his stubby, squared-off fingers. Sandy brown hair covered the backs of his hands; along his upper arms and shoulders, it was clay-red. He was Old Way all the way, at least as far as his pleasures went: he could put away an entire bottle of whatever real drink you had in your cellar and he wouldn’t even get a blush going on. He waved me over, right as Yezmé decided her mother was getting too much attention from some stranger and cut in.
“Aren’t you glad I asked you to give me the keys for the night?” Cavafy said. “I imagined your wife would be happy about it, even if youweren’t.”
“Hey. You, of all people, know what a control fiend I am. But you’re also the only other person I’d trust with the Kyritan for any measurable length of time.”
“You need to do that more often, Henré.”
“What, entrust my latest pride and joy to the hands of friends?”
“Let other people you trust take the reins so you can actually live a little.”
“Taking the reins is how I live, remember? I’m only letting you do this because it’s one night, and because Biann’s about to twist my head off for wanting to hang out more in the control space than be with her on the dancefloor.” My just-kidding smile wasn’t fooling him, and I doubt it ever had.
He put a hand on my shoulder and steered me over to the window where Yezmé had stood not all that long before. “To be honest,” he said, “the way you put this together — the way you put everything together — I didn’t think a body needed to be in the control space at all. But I knew there would be at least one by default, and it would be yours. And given all the time you’ve barely slept making sure all this would work as planned, I’d not be much of a friend if I didn’t at least offer to let you kick back for one night.”
“And now you’re discovering there’s nothing for you to do in the first place.”
“Marveling at your handiwork doesn’t count?”
“Technically, it’s our handiwork. You didn’t exactly sit around and blow bubbles at the ceiling.”
“No. But there’s nothing here you can’t sign your name to in some form. And I will never pretend otherwise.” He raised his glass. “Here’s to the most brilliant protomic designer I know.”
I raised mine. “And here’s to someone with excellent taste in friends.”
“Oh, thank you.”
“I meant me, too.”
My drink was still burning on my gums when Cavafy closed his hand around mine. In my palm I could feel the tiny, biting edges of something. It wasn’t a real object — it was my CL’s somatic feedback system telling me he’d used the initiation of physical contact between us to send me a piece of data. That was one of the nice things about direct cortical linking, social restrictions or moral condemnations of it aside: it gave you an unprecedented way to be discreet.
“What’s this?” I said. “I thought you were trying to get me to think less about work.”
I inspected what he’d sent me for a moment, two moments, and only when I realized what it was did I not only let go but stepped back a pace.
“This is the key to the summer house,” I said. “Your summer house. What’s up? It’s not like you don’t have any way to have the place looked after.” It was the best kind of jocularity I could summon up in that moment, just when I’d been seized so suddenly with unease.
“The house itself is only half the gift,” he said. “There’s an old wedding present I’ve been promising you for entirely too long now.”
“You know, you keep teasing me about this — ”
“This time, it’s for real.”
“That’s beautiful, but why all the skullduggery? You could have just brought it here and rolled it out onto the floor with the ‘Happy Belated Anniversary’ cake or something.”
“This isn’t just a place for you and Biann to enjoy some sunshine up on the roof.” He wasn’t looking at me; what with all that astral glory outside to distract him, I almost didn’t blame him. “Do you remember once I talked about a certain something special I was hanging onto for a certain someone special?”
I did. I felt foolish for not having picked up sooner on all his hints. “You told me you were looking for the best possible candidate to receive it,” I said. “Of which I was only one of several contenders.”
“Of which you are, and always have been, first on the list. It’s high time I quit second-guessing myself and let it change hands to someone who’s earned it. Let’s face it — even if I knew someone more skilled than you, they still wouldn’t deserve this. Because they wouldn’t beyou.”
“What do you want me to do with it?” I’d asked him that question before, but now it was a good deal less hypothetical.
“Ah, the conditions of the gift.” He smiled as if he’d been reminded of an old public peccadillo. “Those haven’t changed. All I ask is that you use it to create something . . . new. Truly new. Not even as an end in itself, but a means towards something bigger. That something bigger, whatever it might be, that I know you’ve been wanting to find.”
I remembered this all too well. Apart from Biann, Cavafy was the only other person in all of creation who was close enough to know about such things. Even as I’d come aboard the Kyritan and admired every self-aligning bulkhead, every cabin that melded on demand with the adjoining cabin to become a luxury stateroom — and, more importantly, admired the way everyone else admired those things — I’d asked myself the same question that had always surfaced in the face of such alleged success: Is this it? It was the nagging feeling that somewhere out there waited something far better, more ambitious, more genuine for me to be doing — a feeling that surfaced, suffocated me from the inside for a little while, and then was slowly pushed below under the weight of my friends’ reassurances and the promise of another, bigger project that might well turn out to be everything I was looking for. Not that it ever did.
“But I know you,” Cavafy went on. “You’ll figure something out. You always do. That’s the one advantage you’ve always had over me.”
I was still sorting through the logjam of words and thoughts that had piled up inside me when I felt Biann’s arm crook itself around mine. “You know, I can’t turn my back on you for five minutes — ” She yanked me away from the window and back towards the dancefloor. “ — without you and Cavafy shacking up somewhere and talking shop! Besides, isn’t he supposed to be taking the helm tonight?”
I was glad she was drunk. It meant I was under no obligation to explain anything to her. I turned, took her hand, and did my best to make sure we didn’t step on each other’s feet. I even smiled, but inside I was dizzy: had Cavafy been expecting more of an answer from me? And why tell me about all this to my face, orally, instead of in an even-more-private direct CL connection with me?
It was right when one of the all-too-flimsy shoulder joins on Biann’s dress came loose — and she, laughing, grabbed at it to meld it back together — that the meaning of it sunk in. It was an Old Way thing, something I’d also missed due to all my outward giddiness and inward unease. When you speak of the things that change a life, or two lives, that’s news you deliver to someone’s face. That’s something reserved for a real voice and real ears. Not for a CL link.
“Did you yank on that earlier?” Biann pulled her dress shoulder back up. “You wicked kid, you. There’s no way that would come loose on its own. — Oh, watch out! Don’t go stepping on my daughter now!”
I’d taken a step back to give her room and almost augured right into Yezmé. To spare the girl any further harm, I scooped her up and let her ride on my shoulder. “Oh,” I said, “so she’s your daughter when I’m almost stepping on her? Here, let’s take your daughter for a little trip.”
Somehow I knew no amount of clowning around with my family would lift the weight of Cavafy’s words off me. But I had to do it anyway, for all our sakes. I owed Cavafy — and Biann, and Yezmé — that much.
I don’t remember how long Yezmé rode around on top of me, but at some point I was on the other side of the dancefloor, looking back at them — my daughter once again riding on my wife’s shoulders, the two of them cavorting with the director of Exoluft’s product-management team. She, the director, looked just as giddy as the other two did. None of them seemed aware I had stepped away. I stood and waited for them to notice me, making a kind of a bet with myself: If they see me, I’ll go back to them; if not, I’ll step away for a bit longer and think a bit more about Cavafy’s offer. The view at the window was perfect for such things: nighttime side of the planet below, nebula above, a moon here, a moon there.
In one moment, their backs were to me; in the next, they were obscured as another wave of people took to the floor. I turned and wandered into the interstitial corridor flanking the ballroom, with its panoramic wall and windowed floor (and crisscrossing opaque walkways, for those whose heart stopped at the idea of stepping out over empty space). Idly, I patched into the ship’s sensory surfaces through CL and asked the ship to show me where Cavafy was; it indicated he was about a hundred meters off near one of the interstitial compartments — one of the many spaces that manifested between bulkheads depending on what configuration the ship was in. No idea what he was doing, though. While CL could give you the freedom to work with anything else CL-connected by simply thinking at it (and let it directly connect back to your mind in return), that only made some things harder, not easier.
The view outside inspired less in me than I thought it would. I’d imagined myself standing in the middle of all this, dreaming up the one great answer to Cavafy’s question, and then returning to him in a haze of pride: I know now what I’m going to build with your gift. And you, sir, are going to love it. But minutes went by, with stars flickering all around and the occasional echoing footfall of couples and trios passing along somewhere far behind me, and no answer came.
You see how it is? I thought. You make an excuse for coming out here to ponder this by yourself, and now all you can think about is going back in. Probably for the best.
Just then, through the floor, and then through the outward-facing bulkhead my hand was resting on, I felt tremors I didn’t recognize.
I knew how the Kyritan was supposed to feel — not just from the simulations or the full-sensory CL-feed immersions I’d run, but from having ridden in the damn thing for countless days and weeks as it was being assembled. This wasn’t the smoothly rising and falling oscillation of a compartment refactoring itself, or a bulkhead realigning. This was chaos.
I gave Cavafy a shout by CL and had my signal bluntly rejected. I didn’t have time to finish wondering why in cosm’s name he would be turning off inbound connections before the ceiling and floor and walls began to all peel away from each other.
The entire corridor was tearing open, as if the different layers of the ship’s infrastructure had all decided to walk off in separate directions. The floor yanked itself around for a few dozen centimeters in all directions before the flooring, made of tuned-to-transparent Type B substrate (emulates heavier plastics and thin metals), splintered. Air screamed out around me and threatened to freeze-dry my eyes right in their sockets.
I shut my eyes and threw myself at the nearest inward-facing bulkhead. I’d tried to patch into the ship’s sensory surfaces via CL, and see what was around me through the ship’s own eyes instead of mine, but nothing came back. If I wanted to climb into a rescue pod, I’d have to do it by touch alone, and I had mere seconds to do it before my blood boiled and I passed out.
My fingers groped and closed around the handles set into the walls. Normally they were hidden, but despite everything that was going wrong, the emergency depressurization routines at least seemed to have triggered. I remembered the one very boring night I’d spent deploying all that code into most every bulkhead in the ship, reminding myself this might well save someone’s life in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Now all I could think, as I yanked myself along from one handle to the next, was: Please don’t let it be just me that’s saved. Please don’t let it be just me.
The fifth handle I reached was larger than the rest and had a familiar trigger set into the underside. Next to it was the rounded edge of a doorway that hadn’t existed before. I hauled myself around and bailed forward into the hatch, right on top of four other warm bodies. I opened my eyes, blinked the mist out of them, and saw vaguely familiar faces: the gender-mutable who had been playing cello the other night; another ’mute who was most likely that one’s lover; the director of technological services for the company; a teenaged girl who had been in the pool and was still wearing only a slightly damp one-piece bathing suit, her teeth chattering.
We were thrown to the floor in a newly-disorganized pile as the pod lurched and we were blown free. I didn’t strap myself in like everyone else; I scrambled up to the one porthole in the top of the pod and clung to the handles on either side of it, staring back up at what was left of the Kyritan.
Like a glass peapod split up the middle, I thought. A hailstorm of glittering shards spewed outwards from the two remaining husks of the hull.
I connected to the CL mesh network that I knew would have been established between the escape pods and hunted frantically for the only three names that mattered. I was still searching for them long after the last icy remnants of the Kyritan had passed from view, and even longer after I knew full well all hope would have to be laid to rest.
And then one fine day, five solar years later —

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Sunday, 3 November 2013

Of Dreams and Shadows - D S McKnight

The first post for November is showcasing the talented author D S McKnight and her book Of Dreams and Shadows.

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Of Dreams and Shadows - D S McKnight

We live. We die. Is there anything more? Jenna Barton is about to find out. After moving to the coastal North Carolina town of Parson's Cove, Jenna has unwittingly stepped into the middle of a mystery involving a missing child. Unfortunately, the predator is still on the loose and Jenna has become his new obsession. With a little luck and a bit of paranormal help, Jenna might survive.

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Of Dreams and Shadows (Excerpt) - D S McKnight

Her room was flooded with sunshine, when Jenna finally awoke to the ringing of her cell. With her eyes closed, she groped for the phone. “Hello.”

It was Jess. “So, how was it?” Yawning, Jenna asked, “How was what?”

“Don’t play stupid with me, Jenna. You know what I’m talking about. So?”

“I had a blast,” she giggled. “How about you?”

“I sat home all night. You on the other hand need to share!”

“Okay, okay. We went to that new restaurant, The Train Depot. I had this amazing steak and cheese. We talked about, you know, stuff - like sports and fishing. Then we went to an arcade and played a couple games.”

“Alright. And then?”

Jenna smiled. She wasn’t going to make it that easy. “Then we came home.”

“Home, huh? That’s it…he dropped you off and drove away…” Jess left the comment hanging.

“Well, he did walk me to my door.”

“Come on, Jen,” Jess begged.

Jenna flashed back to the night before, standing on the front steps. She couldn’t help but laugh. “I didn’t think he was going to kiss me. It seemed like we talked forever. I was getting so cold. Anyway, he leans into me, our lips touch and it’s like amazing. I mean, it’s like I’m seeing flashes of light. And then he pulls away, and then I realize it’s actually my mom turning the porch light on and off, on and off. I thought I’d die of embarrassment!”

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Dr. Vishwanath (Vish) Prasad
Awarded 2006 LACCEI Academic Merit Medal

Dr. Vishwanath (Vish) Prasad is the Executive Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He also holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Engineering.

Since he joined FIU in 2001, Dr. Prasad’s leadership has resulted in significant progress for all areas of the College. Among his accomplishments are the creation of several new bachelors, masters and doctoral degree programs, bringing the total to over 30; the addition of world-class faculty; the development of new research centers and institutes including the Motorola Nanofabrication Research Facility, the IBM Latin American Grid System, the Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center, the Telecommunications Institute, the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute, and the Center for Diversity in Engineering; and an increase in the enrollment of undergraduate and graduate students. The increase is especially evident at the Ph.D. level where enrollment has grown by over 300%. Research funding for the College has almost doubled during Dr. Prasad’s deanship and through his efforts over $13 million has been raised for endowment and development funds.

Before moving to FIU, Dr. Prasad served as a Leading Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He also served as the Director of the (MURI) Center for Crystal Growth Research, a consortium of six universities, industry and national laboratories, and as the Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and Graduate Studies. From 1984 to 1993, Dr. Prasad served as a faculty member at Columbia University.

At Stony Brook, Dr. Prasad was a co-principal investigator of the National Science Foundation (MRSEC) Center for Thermal Spray Research. He is an elected Fellow of ASME and has served as a member of the USRA Microgravity Research Council for NASA Programs in Fluid Physics, Combustion and Materials as well as the Chair of the ASME Heat Transfer Division Committee on Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing and Materials Processing.

Dr. Prasad has written close to two hundred refereed articles on various topics in the areas of heat transfer, materials processing, microelectronics and plasma spray coating. He has organized numerous conferences, symposia and workshops, and has been invited to present special lectures at many academic institutions and industry in the United States and abroad. Dr. Prasad serves as the lead editor of the Annual Review of Heat Transfer and on the editorial advisory boards of two journals. In addition, he has edited or co-edited several journal volumes, books and symposium volumes. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1983 and M. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Under Dr. Prasad’s leadership, the College of Engineering and Computing at FIU has developed partnerships with many engineering schools in Latin America and the Caribbean, including dual-degree programs, student exchange, faculty development and research collaboration. When Dr. Prasad started to interact with Latin American and Caribbean engineering institutions, he immediately saw a need for a forum in which these institutions could cooperate with each other. His idea led to the creation of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) in 2003 and he served as its founding President. LACCEI supports the achievement of excellence in engineering education and research in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

For his contributions to engineering education in Latin America and the Caribbean, Dr. Prasad has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by Santa Maria University in Caracas, Venezuela, and he has been named Honorary Professor at Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru. He has traveled extensively, visiting institutions in almost every major country in Latin America and the Caribbean.