hēg denu
The old english words from which my name is derived, hēg 'hay' + denu 'valley'.-
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Bruno’s Blanket
Last June Andrea’s sister Mamen gave birth to Bruno. I decided I wanted to knit him something, and summer being a horrible time to knit, I figured a Christmas present would be a good opportunity. I selected a pattern for … Continue reading
Évariste Galois
The science library at uni has a display out the front where they put topical exhibitions up which change from time to time. This week they put one up celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Évariste Galois (b. 25 Oct, … Continue reading
Choose your own (adventure)
When I was somewhere around the end of primary school we had a guy come to talk to us at school. He was a native american, who worked as an undercover cop in the states. I don’t remember exactly what … Continue reading
Simulated knitting
David Chudzicki has created a python package (Knit3d on github) which simulates in 3D the shape that will be produced by a knitted pattern. I haven’t really looked at it yet, but it looks very interesting. Check out his blog … Continue reading
Now he’s sixty-four
Bruce has written a post about the Beatle’s song When I’m sixty-four, the occasion being his 64th birthday. He left this out of the post, creative is as creative does, and all that.
Differing goals
Last week our email server finally tanked. This was pretty bad timing as we’ll be moving to a hosted email server before the end of the year. In order to get things up and running as quickly as possible, we … Continue reading
Looking for …
Since the book I’m reading at the moment is prohibitively large, I’ve not been carrying it around everywhere as I usually do with books. Needing something to read at Andrea’s place, I picked up Looking for Alibrandi. Having not done … Continue reading
I’m alive
This is just a post to say that I am still alive, I’ve not been posting anything because I’ve been busy with work and my studies, and other work. Sorry about that.
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The birthday girl
Today is Andrea’s birthday (15th of October, just above the text there in orange). So a big Happy Birthday to her! ¡Feliz Cumpleaños! P.S. I’m sure she won’t be happy about it, but here’s a photo of Andrea in Salamanca … Continue reading
The new 52
I essentially work for a comic book store. Yet aside from a couple of issues of Spawn I bought when I was about 11, I’ve never really been in to comics. I got into some Marvel titles with the Civil … Continue reading