I learned how to knit! (you can learn to knit). It’s pretty neat. I’ve taken apart my scarf three times or so but now I think it’s good to keep going. There are few different knitting techniques and I was trying them out in quick succession. This got a little confusing so I am just going to stick with the basic garter knit for now, which you knit both sides instead of alternating between purling and knitting.
I also went to the store and got some bamboo knitting needles and I like them. I think I may switch to using the circle knitting needles but I’ve yet to figure that out yet.
Oh and if you didn’t know, they even have luxury yarns! Cashmere even! But I’m waiting to invest in that till I can knit something worth it.
There are also extreme knitters these days. One group of them plays a game, the name of which I can’t remember, but it sort of like this: People register on some website or something, and they put their address and sock size. Then they pick someone to “kill” that is also a player in the game. The way you “kill” someone is to knit them a pair of socks in their size and mail them to them. When they receive the socks, they are “dead”. So the fastest knitters can “kill off” everyone else, last one alive wins. Your socks are in the mail!
Yesterday the 1st BarCampOrlando was held. It went extremely well.
I am honestly very impressed that they were able to have as many talks, just about non-stop from 1 PM - 8:30 PM. My biggest regret is not doing a demo.
Talks I enjoyed
Introduction to Facebook
Introduction to Agile
Cow orking
I’m a bit frustrated I was stuck trying to get the live Flickr feed to work and missed Elliot’s talk.
I recently joined the Ubuntu Florida LoCo team and it was cool to meet a few people from the team there. Also the install fest was cool, not a ton of participants but those who did try it out booted up fine. Especially impressive is that it booted up on a Macbook Pro.
I know I’m going, looking forward to my 1st conference of this type. Especially I think I will enjoy the DIY attitude of it. What’s going to be talked about? I’ve heard so far in discussion that Ruby, .Net, PHP, Ubuntu (and Linux in general), Launchpad, MySQL, and a host of other topics are all possible. Oh and it’s FREE! But you better watch the website since registration starts soon.
When is this thing? On Sunday, September 23rd, from 1 PM to 10 PM at Taste in the College Park area of Olrando FL.
What is it all about? Watch the video to learn more, also check out the BarCampOrlando website for more info.
So The Collective graciously invited me to photograph their live performance on WPRK 91.5 Rollins College Radio. The station is housed on the basement of the Mills building, whatever that means. It was a really cool experience. Pictures turned out OK. I am not the best judge of what pictures other people will like. I think some of them are pretty nice though. Unfortunately Scary Mary, a previous DJ was not there. Still fun though.
