Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Many thanks to everyone who voted in last week's survey about the future of the Steampunk Librarian. The overwhelming majority told me to keep everything as is, and so it shall be!
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I took this last summer and was a Gadgeteer. Apparently my tastes have changed a bit.
Your result for The Steampunk Style Test...
The Ragamuffin
18% Elegant, 55% Technological, 13% Historical, 48% Adventurous and 60% Playful!
You are the Ragamuffin, the embodiment of steampunk playfulness. Chances are, you approach the genre from a much more casual and lighthearted standpoint than most other fans. To you, there is always an element of play inherent in the genre, and you may very well enjoy fashion as much for the opportunity to dress up as for the style itself. You probably wear goggles as an accessory, and rarely as actual eye-protection. Your outfits are likely to incorporate a lot of brown or cream, and combine large boots, Victorian corsets or vests, aviator caps or bowler hats, and gypsy skirts or slacks, simply because you like them all.
Anyway! Steampunk Month continues over at Tor.com, with all sorts of neat posts and book excerpts. As for books, has anyone read Kage Baker's stories? They look intriguing.
Also intriguing: the web production titled Riese: The Series. The costuming alone looks awesome!
Steampunky websites with fabulous names: Strange Undisciplined Dreams of Great Things and the Electro-Plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator 2000.
The artist known as Tin does quite beautiful art with robotic overtones.
And finally, a poster that could serve as the Steampunk Manifesto!
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
When it comes to knititng, I'm not entirely certain I've ever grown up.
While I do tend toward knitting toys, that's not actually what I mean: I'm really more talking about how I choose a yarn -- which means, if it doesn't feel good, I don't want to knit with it.
Case in point: I recently traded two skeins of Noro Silk Garden to a friend in my knititng group. (I ended up with a 6" size 1.5 circular needle for socks: At last check, we both think we got the better end of the deal.) Why? I mean, it's Noro -- One of those much-coveted yarns. Why give it up?
... I didn't like the way it felt, too rough for my taste. (And Noro has enough supporters and fans out there that they really don't need me, anyway.)
I don't want to work on -- or wear! -- anything that's itchy or scratchy or rough.
So it's probably no secret that I love Malabrigo, even though it's not well suited to outerwear. (Current Malabrigo project: Colonnade in Stonechat and Amoroso.)
I don't really have a point with that, other than saying it's really, really soft, so I love working with it.
Back to the toy front: I've been knitting a lot of kitties lately. The latest is a miniature version of another kitty I've already made: I was going nuts at JoAnn's last night, trying to find a set of cats-eye like ¼-inch buttons in green. (They have them in white, red, blue, pink, and black, but no green -- though I did end up finding some lime-green buttons in ¼-inch, but they're a solid color and lacking the luminosity I was looking for. Oh well.)
Also, it seems to me that JoAnn's button selection has shrunk; I am vaguely displeased.
So, projects currently in the flurry of work: More short-row hats. Itty bitty knitty kitty. And a Roam that I've been wanting to tackle for ever in a fabulous orange color of Colourmart merino yarn called Tiger.
On top of the Christmas presents, that is. (Although the short-row hats actually are presents, so they count.)
I'm also rediscovering Fetching, and thinking I may make a series of those for gifts this year, too.
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Can't wait to read your posts!
~ daisy
We interrupt our regular schedule to ask you, the reader, about...regular schedules. I recently discovered that there are more readers out there than I thought, which is thrilling and surprising and has led to me thinking about what to do in the future with this. Should I move away from Vox? Should I post more often? Should I leave well enough alone?
As a result, I post a poll, where you can weigh in with your (anonymous) opinion!
