The Red Sweater

Today I came across a very clever knitting, food, fun blog called Pretending Sanity. What’s cool about the internet is that I didn’t find this site by doing some mass search on Google or consult some list. I found it because it’s owner, Allison, gave Heather of dooce a knitted scarf, Heather wore it for Halloween and posted about it. I don’t know if Allison and Heather know each other, but a guess would be probably not. Is it no wonder that this blog thing has taken the world by storm?

You can gather a lot of very useful information by surfing the blogs. For instance, this is what I’ve collected this morning:

1. a non-pork and easy green chile recipe - one of the few things I miss from my youth in Texas. Other less fond memories include learning the Davy Crockett song instead of the national anthem and knowing at the age of 7 what to do if you’re stung by a scorpion.
2. a very very tiny and readable freeware font called silkscreen - made by Jason Kottke. He’s included a brief description of the process of making this font, interesting to me because the last time I designed a font it was with ink on paper using one of those curvy rulers (what did we call those?). Anyhow, as I can always use another project, yeah right, I’m going to look into Macromedia’s Fontographer… time lapse as I actually do this … wow, it’s pricey at $349.
3. a good tip on breadcrumbing from Marmalade - because I know that I’ll be upgrading to MovableType 3.1 sometime soon, I’ve been bookmarking any technical advice I come across in the mean time.
4. a funny banner to share in honor of election day. Have you voted yet? Bob and I voted three weeks ago because that’s how they do it in Oregon - all ballots are mailed in. I’m amazed at how split the country is in this election - all the way down to me and my mother. Come tomorrow, one of us is going to be very upset. In fact, tomorrow 49% of the entire country is going to be horrified. And it could be either half. Scary.
5. finally, as a big Harry Potter fan, I was very interested to see this alternative path for the story line created by the “jenny turpish slapped me” guy (I don’t know his real name), called Harry Potter and the Silver Sword. It’s incomplete, but a nice diversion.