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#makeshitmonday

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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)

#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition, in which two new projects are begun, and the timer is ticking down...

I am Not Speedy at crochet. Small projects like slippers that say "easily completed in an evening" generally take me several days, and my frequency of working on projects is often sparse, so larger things like shawls or wraps generally take *months*.

So of course I've started two projects that I absolutely must finish by the end of June... 😬

A friend is turning 50, and my BFF from college and I are joining her on a celebratory trip. I decided I wanted a new light wrap for cool evenings - and then I thought my BFF might want one too - and of course I need to make one for the birthday girl!

So they chose fibers and colors, and I ordered some lovely silk/alpaca yarn at the beginning of April... not realizing it was on back-order and wouldn't arrive for over a month. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Then I mixed up who gets what and started on the BFF wrap, rather than the birthday wrap, but I want to finish the birthday wrap first to make sure it's ready for, well, her birthday - so I switched mid-stream.

And it's my first time working with lace-weight yarn, so there was definitely a learning curve there on tension! But it's a [relatively simple pattern](mooglyblog.com/artfully-simple) and goes pretty quickly, as long as I pay attention and back-check each row to avoid having to frog a bunch if I make any mistakes. I'm optimistic that I'll at least get their gifts done in time... And then mine can be my travel project for the trip! 😇

@crochet
@cannibal

two partially-finished crochet wraps, one in variegated orange/salmon/purple and the other in variegated blue/teal/white, on a brown couch
close-up of the orange/salmon/purple wrap (Malabrigo Silkpaca in Archangel)
close-up of the blue/teal/white wrap (Malabrigo Silkpaca in Cantabrico)
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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)

Nothing new this week for #makeShitMonday, but I got the cat scarf shipped out to my college roomie...

Her cat Luma was the inspiration for her color choices, and I'm still giggling at her reaction:

"It’s like… catception! (Luma models the latest in cat lady scarf fashion. Thank you so very much, Lisa. The yarn is luxurious!)"

Honestly I think the best part of being able to make beautiful things out of lovely yarn is the joy of giving them to my friends. 💖

@cannibal @crochet
#crochet #CatsOfMastodon

a black and white cat, sitting in a grey cat tree, with a black and white cat scarf draped over her haunches
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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)

#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

Cat scarf is doooooone! 🐈🧣🧶💖 We had a long car trip this weekend - perfect for tedious loose-end finishing. Also I won at yarn chicken - had just enough black yarn to shape the top black-cat head row! 🎉

I need to wash the scraps of yarn I have left in Soak to check for colorfastness before I wash the whole thing - I'd hate to wash it and end up with grey cats... Hopefully all the dye will stay where it belongs. 🤞🏻

@cannibal @crochet

black-and-white tessellated cat scarf ending in a row of black cats, with maybe 14" of yarn left over
finished cat scarf on a lavender bedspread
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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)

#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

My cat scarf progresses! I've worked through all four skeins of yarn - our original guesstimate on dimensions (10" wide by 54" long) wasn't long enough to girth-hitch, so I got it out to 60" before using up all the yarn. Time to send pics to my ex-roomie and see if it looks long enough to her. 🤞🏻

Aaaaaaaand now my color-change chickens have come home to roost, and I have to weave in All Those Fucking Ends. Sooooo tedious. Managed to get through one side, so 42 down and 44 to go...

@cannibal @crochet

black-and-white tessellated cat scarf on brown couch - one side is fully finished, the other side still has yarn ends sticking out between every pair of cat rows
me in front of a white wall and brown wooden door, in navy pajamas, wearing the cat scarf draped over my shoulders with the two ends hanging down in front
me in front of a brown wooden door, wearing navy pajamas, with the cat scarf wrapped around my neck in a girth hitch and two short ends making a sort of jabot in front
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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)

#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

This week what I made was... Progress! We had road trips last weekend and this weekend, so I had some quality cat-scarf time, and it's starting to actually look like a scarf. 😁

Soon I'll figure out whether the four skeins of yarn I bought will get me to my target length... I'm thinking I may need to pick up a couple more. Which normally would be a good excuse to hit up my local yarn shop, but I just kitted up for five new projects in an online yarn-shop sale, so I need to stay away from temptation for a while. 😇

@cannibal @crochet

a black-and-white scarf in repeating rows of tessellated cat stitch, with loose ends every row waiting to be worked in, on a brown sectional sofa
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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)

#makeShitMonday, #mending edition!

Our local caving grotto has a large canopy structure that we use for group camping events - as is common with shared equipment, it tends to be roughly handled, and the soft case that holds the poles and canvas for transport has come apart at the top seam.

It's pretty sturdy fabric, and well-constructed - the corner is joined by one seam, and there's a separate seam holding down some thin rubber tape that keeps the seam allowance from fraying. Fortunately that means the failure is the thread holding the pieces together, not the fabric itself...

It's a bit tedious to fix, since I'm trying to use existing holes rather than introduce new points of weakness. And I'm doing each seam as two lines of alternate running stitches, so if the threads break on one line, the other will hopefully hold it together enough for me to fix it more easily next time.

I got through both lines of the joining seam and one line of the edge-tape seam before I ran out of time (and patience) today. Should go a lot quicker tomorrow since the edges and tape are already lined up, so it'll just be a simple running stitch!

@cannibal
#DIY #repair #sewing #handsewing

inside of the blown seam showing the gaps between the canvas sides and the detached seam tape
pulling through and tying off the broken ends of the existing threads
completed seam joining the fabric sides together, with the edge tape still detached
first line of running stitch for the edge tape seam - super tedious because they weren't lined up at all, so for each stitch I was separately lining up the needle and pushing through first the edge tape on one side, then the fabric, then the edge tape on the other side. return (alternating) line will be easier now than they're all lined up!
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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)

#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

I'm making good progress on the cat scarf for my ex-roomie - despite multiple rounds of frogging!

My mom gave me a gorgeous new set of [Dyak Craft crochet hooks](dyakcraft.com/shop/p/tunisian-), so I switched from my old bamboo hook to the equivalent new hook - and the action is totally different, so my stitch tension is different, so I ended up frogging my entire first 11 rows and starting over. 😭

(It made a nice diversion on a rainy morning during our caving trip to TN last week...)

Then on the way home I was listening to an interesting podcast and missed a cat leg, which cost me another round of frogging. So now I check each row when I finish it, and double-check before I break the yarn and switch colors. 🙄 But despite all that, it's starting to look scarf-like!

@cannibal @crochet

cat stitch scarf in alternating black and white, on a brown waffle-knit towel - three rows of stitches makes one row of cats!
me sitting in a camp chair, bundled up in a fleece zipneck & hat and a hooded blanket, working on the scarf
I missed the first leg in the first stitch row of this current white row of cats, which meant I had to frog alllllll the way back to it and redo that top row of cats
thirteen rows of cats! with my colorful new crochet hook, on a sage green sofa, in front of a white canvas ziptop bag with a black outline of the radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory (I picked up a trio of these bags on our visit there many years ago - never found a use for them until I started crocheting again, and now they make terrific project bags!)
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IrishMASMS

Talking with the folks in the local #vintage / #retrocomputing community, they clued me in that the #ThinkPad #RAID is a steaming pile of 💩 and not worth the trouble.

🤷 Oh well. Thanks for cluing me in

So I swapped out the two testing #NVMe drives I was using and reinstalled the original sticks - to have #windoz10 demanding for the #bitlocker recovery key. 🤦‍♂️

Well, time to wipe & install #windoz11 then.

Install went fine, only 4 rando #drivers to find for all #devices to be recognized and working.

Using my #CTT scripts to install the majority of applications, then to remove the #spyware #bloatware and other garbage #micro$oft added to #windows11

Then migrate my #data from my other ThinkPad. Welcome to my #sunday #funday

#siliconValley #SillyValley #sanfrancisco #sanfran #sanfranciscocomputers #sanfrancomputers #sanfranciscovintagecomputers #sanfranvintagecomputers #sanfranciscovintagehardware #sanfranvin-tagehardware
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware #computerHistory #retro #VCF #vintageComputerFestival
#retrocomputing #retroComputers #WallOfRetro #retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech #computerHardware #laptop #laptops
#IBM #thinkpad #thinkpads #VintageThinkPad #X86 #WindowsVista #IBMhardware #lenovoHard-ware #Thinkpadnium
#upcycle #restore #TechnologyRepair #ThinkPadRepair #WasteNotWantNot #Thinkpadnium
#makeShitMonday #showmewhatyougot

A ThinkPad P70 workstation laptop, in the process of being rebuilt: Windows 11 having bin installed, now installing all the applications. The HWiNFO application is displayed on the screen, showing the specifications of the laptop.
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IrishMASMS

Ok, I spent yesterday afternoon trying to get #RAID configured on my #lenovo #ThinkPad #P70 - to no success.

I found this video youtube.com/watch?v=AyCC1NGe8a of the similar #p50 and configuring #RAID which shows the #BIOS interface but my P70's only show the "non-raid physical discs" I do not have an option for RAID volumes. Note I have upgraded the BIOS to the most recent version on lenovo's web site. Any thoughts?

I have attached 2 #screenshots of what the BIOS displays - I'm trying to configure the RAID on the two 512GB #NVMe sticks.

#siliconValley #SillyValley #sanfrancisco #sanfran #sanfranciscocomputers #sanfrancomputers #sanfranciscovintagecomputers #sanfranvintagecomputers #sanfranciscovintagehardware #sanfranvin-tagehardware
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware #computerHistory #retro #VCF #vintageComputerFestival
#retrocomputing #retroComputers #WallOfRetro #retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech #computerHardware #laptop #laptops
#IBM #thinkpad #thinkpads #VintageThinkPad #X86 #WindowsVista #IBMhardware #lenovoHard-ware #Thinkpadnium
#upcycle #restore #TechnologyRepair #ThinkPadRepair #WasteNotWantNot #Thinkpadnium
#makeShitMonday #showmewhatyougot

Screenshot of a Lenovo ThinkPad P70 BIOS, showing the RAID configuration screen with RAID enabled and M2 selected
A screenshot of a Lenovo ThinkPad P70 BIOS showing the Intel RST RAID configuration page, with no ability to configure RAID but devices listed as non-RAID physical discs
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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)

#MakeShitMonday, #crochet edition!

@mbroome and I took a roadtrip out to the Outer Banks this weekend - which meant it was time to start a new crochet project. This time it's a scarf made using the [cat stitch](craftinghappiness.com/how-to-c),
for my ex-roommate from boarding school - who is a childless cat lady par excellence.

We discussed dimensions and design and agreed that it's best for the cats to go in short horizontal rows... Except that I'm lazy and *not* enthusiastic about having to weave in ends every three rows for a 5' scarf. So I decided to try carrying the yarn vertically - despite literally no Internet resource suggesting this. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sadly, it's because the result looks like ass. 🤦🏻‍♀️ The edge stitches just look totally scraggly... So I frogged that whole mess and started over, and now it's starting to look respectable!

@cannibal
@crochet

first attempt at cat stitch - a crochet strip, black on the bottom and white on top, with mixed black-and-white stitches up the outer edges. (draped across my knees above my handy project bag from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico!)
redone with yarn change between colors - a clean white edge and a clean black edge
eight rows in, and the tessellated cat shapes are starting to be apparent...
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Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)

#MakeShitMonday, crochet edition...

Baby's first #crochet design! 🎉
(Well, adaptation really. But I'm still proud of it!)

I had a full skein of yarn left over from the [Winged Wrap^Scarf](infosec.exchange/@llorenzin/11) I made for @mbroome over the holidays... and he was commenting about one of his winter hats not fitting well... so I thought, surely Moogly has a hat pattern to go with that scarf!

Except that [the original pattern](mooglyblog.com/winged-wrap/) was for a wrap, not a scarf... So no matching hat. But that's okay - I made her [Fallen Leaves hat](infosec.exchange/@llorenzin/11) a few months ago, so I understand generally how hats work. How hard can it be? (Famous last words...🤦🏻‍♀️)

Normal, sane people crochet hats top-down, starting with a magic circle. But I wanted a particular color pattern at the edge, so I started at the bottom and worked my way up! 😁 And after a couple false starts and enough frogging and reworking to make *at least* three hats, I finally had a decent start...

@cannibal
@crochet

first try - for some reason I thought I could make it flat and just join at the back seam. (which tells you how very much I don't know what I'm doing!)
and, inevitably, the gradient yarn doesn't line up *at all* with that approach. frogged *that* entire mess.
so now I've got the hang of making it in the round, but I didn't make it deep enough! all of this was done on a road trip, but I left the reference hat at home and ended up way short.
...which just means I have room for another block of chevrons at the bottom! frogged back to the top of the lower chevrons and rebuilt it from there.
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Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇

I have continued futzing around with the #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook 145B. My weekend project was to remove the ancient, decrepit SCSI hard drive (functional, but loud as heck) and replace it with the #Androda #BlueSCSI, a custom PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico W attached to it. (The Pi Pico W also gives the PowerBook an internal WiFi connection, something the original never had.)

Fortunately I already have some experience working with .hda disk image files from last year's #PiSCSI project, so I had some ready-made virtual hard disks loaded with software I've barely touched.

Today at @mediaarchaeologylab I found a floppy disk for the 1995 Norton Disk Editor, a low-level diagnostic tool that I can't imagine there was much consumer demand for. The disk editor contains some hidden gems of MacIntosh lore I was previously unaware of.

The UI says "The Disk Type bytes identify the type of Macintosh file system in use on the volume. If the bytes are $D2D7 (or 'RW' - standing for Randy Wigginton) then the volume is an MFS volume. If the Disk Type bytes are $4244 (standing for 'BD' or "Big Disk") then the volume is an HFS volume."

(Edit: I don't know if Apple had its own version of ASCII, but while in traditional ASCII hex 0x4244 = "BD," ASCII hex values for "RW" would be 0x5257, not 0xD2D7, so that's...weird)

Randy was employee number 6 at Apple, and a neighbor of Woz. Turning your initials into magic bytes buried in the filesystem you designed seems just so...early Apple.

The PowerBook is now completely silent when it runs. It doesn't have an internal fan. The hard drive motor was the only thing that made any noise (aside from the speaker, of course).

And the BlueSCSI? With a 128GB MicroSD card, it has about 1600 times as much storage as that old 80MB hard drive.

Screen photo of Norton Disk Editor for Mac System 7. The UI says "The Disk Type bytes identify the type of Macintosh file system in use on the volume. If the bytes are $D2D7 (or 'RW' - standing for Randy Wigginton) then the volume is an MFS volume. If the Disk Type bytes are $4244 (standing for 'BD' or "Big Disk") then the volume is an HFS volume
Photo of the 80MB SCSI hard drive that came out of the PowerBook. It's a black rectangle labeled Apple Computer Inc. and was OEMed from IBM. It's dated 1993.
Randy Wigginton's employee #6 badge from Apple.
The BlueSCSI device mounted inside the PowerBook
#RetroComputing#RetroMac#MakeShitMonday
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