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Pickles and Pixels

I made pickles, which I love. I made specifically pickled beets and carrots. The beets are yummy, the carrots are not so yummy to me but Allan likes them.

And I did it all without the arduous process of bell jars, boiling jars/lids, and those odd shaped tongs. All thanks to ReadyMade.

Super Simple Pickle Recipe

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To dye or not to dye at all…

I’ve spent my Sunday kettle dyeing yarn…

This is a process that I feel was severely therapeutic for dealing with my personal travels to crazy and back to sane again. Also, it was a pleasantly chaotic break from the measuring, “straight” lines and machine sounds of quilting.

When you dye yarn in a pot by throwing all [...]

Reformatting?

I am seriously considering making this blog open to multiple writers. I have invited Allan to be an author and provide his mixture of music, computer sci/technology, electronics and all things wonderfully nerdy about him to this blog. Hopefully he takes me up on my offer.

-Alyssa

Scratch all that! This blog will be open to [...]

American Innovation 2008?

There is a very important initiative to encourage our nation’s leaders to pay attention to America’s dismal performance on the scientific and technology innovation world arena. Courtesy of ScienceDebate 2008. These are the issues that should have been discussed in conjunction with the economic crisis during the election debates. Our inability to produce more scientists [...]

My distant Neighbor…

David Gomez
is also a scientist and makes me wish I could fluently read Spanish. I try to absorb the little scientific phrases I know and decipher the verbose explanations with recognition of similar English words but I fail miserably at understanding the overall complex ideas. The pictures help though.

I like the internet for the simple [...]

Punk Rock Dancing Robots

Robots trained to dance to brit punk rock.

From WNYC’s Radiolab Blog

“Last week, the band Neurotic and the PVCs brought new meaning to the idea of cultivating an audience. The band played to a crowd of human fans and a set of three robots. The robots are rigged with “neural networks” based on human neurology that [...]

Cyanotype and Prussian Blue Printing Process

To the left are some links about the cyanotype/prussian blue process. Diana initially got me interested in alternative photographic chemistry projects.

HistoryCyanotyping was accidentally discovered when Sir John Herschel was dicking around in his garden in 1842 and mixed a couple of flower dyes together, initially the paper was red, when he came back out [...]