tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post114045087103491595..comments2024-03-19T03:17:32.682-04:00Comments on The Panopticon: Those Clever, Clever RussiansFranklinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03670441931649806878noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-79470917600433376892012-07-26T14:52:40.200-04:002012-07-26T14:52:40.200-04:00Really useful data, much thanks for your article.Really useful data, much thanks for your article.sitehttp://music.ece.drexel.edu/educon/index.php/User:Laurencezarate66noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140631855763527652006-02-22T13:10:00.000-05:002006-02-22T13:10:00.000-05:00As a teenager, I really wanted to ice skate in the...As a teenager, I really wanted to ice skate in the Olympics to the main theme from Star Wars(I still think somebody should use it.) Instead I had to placate myself by looking at Eric Heiden's bum. <BR/>Franklin too bad you didn't see the opening ceremonies. Think of a cross between Robin Williams in The Cage and Woody Allen in Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex. Plus the Italian dancer man totally ripped off the Bye, Bye Heart routine from All That Jazz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140628983796299282006-02-22T12:23:00.000-05:002006-02-22T12:23:00.000-05:00Franklin, your knitting is superb, and I also want...Franklin, your knitting is superb, and I also want to learn that grafting method! Did you put the name of the book in your blog, and I missed it in the midst of Olympic knitting? To Margie, who commented on the ice dancing costumes--they are just making the mesh much more flesh colored and harder to see---it truly is there!Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761786281316464253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140578048750066472006-02-21T22:14:00.000-05:002006-02-21T22:14:00.000-05:00Liberace was obviously a major influence on ice da...Liberace was obviously a major influence on ice dancing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140556987935684242006-02-21T16:23:00.000-05:002006-02-21T16:23:00.000-05:00Oh lord! Now I am sobbing, because I didn't put th...Oh lord! Now I am sobbing, because I didn't put the orenburg book in my cart yesterday night. I can't order overseas so often. But I'm agonising of curiosity...Filambullehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11048734940725582674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140507734284465632006-02-21T02:42:00.000-05:002006-02-21T02:42:00.000-05:00Thanks for the link to Go Fug Yourself -- I've add...Thanks for the link to Go Fug Yourself -- I've added it to my list of regulars.<BR/><BR/>And for the tantalising reference to joining the ends of a lace edging without grafting, a la Orenburg. I've got to learn that one.<BR/><BR/>Mary Thomas (is that name right?)in her famous Knitting Book says that there are only 12 Shetland lace patterns, which she lists. Other writers have solemnly repeated this. But it's not remotely true.<BR/><BR/>Love JeanJeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140495519278642322006-02-20T23:18:00.000-05:002006-02-20T23:18:00.000-05:00Franklin; Are you tellimg me that you are (Gasp!)...Franklin; Are you tellimg me that you are (Gasp!) homosexual? I'm shocked. All this time, I just thought you were witty, educated, erudite, a snappy dresser and quick with a comeback. I would never have quessed.Aidanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06303266155929110011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140480427329619152006-02-20T19:07:00.000-05:002006-02-20T19:07:00.000-05:00I was mesmerised by the ice dancing costumes also....I was mesmerised by the ice dancing costumes also. The Russians in particular. The fringing attached in very strange ways across her breasts somehow seemed ruder than the other skimpy bikini-esque outfits which revealed much more.<BR/><BR/>I was under the impression that bare skin on the ice was a bad idea but all of these women were wearing almost nothing and I couldn't see any skin coloured mesh over the "bare" bits like in the past. Yeouch.Margiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15725440187064435857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140475316362071122006-02-20T17:41:00.000-05:002006-02-20T17:41:00.000-05:00Glad that the Barbie Shawl worked out, and that yo...Glad that the Barbie Shawl worked out, and that you now see what I've been telling you for a month. Lace is all sleight-of-hand, based on the simplest of knitting manipulations that gives you magic when finished.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140475216297357312006-02-20T17:40:00.000-05:002006-02-20T17:40:00.000-05:00I didn't watch any ice dancing but did watch the m...I didn't watch any ice dancing but did watch the men's figure skating. I swear that someone was selling off costumes from bad '80s pop bands and those boys bought 'em all. Amazing.<BR/><BR/>Up here in the Great White North, we are more than a little enamored by women's hockey. And quite pleased (probably inappropriately and certainly impolitely) at the US loss to Finland that kept them out of the gold medal game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140470673801451872006-02-20T16:24:00.000-05:002006-02-20T16:24:00.000-05:00Can't wait to see the pic! Did you get the pattern...Can't wait to see the pic! Did you get the pattern from some kind of book? If so, could you please give me the book info, please?Elemmacilturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06001661654657307595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140466017350278572006-02-20T15:06:00.000-05:002006-02-20T15:06:00.000-05:00I forgot to mention that at one point, C said he w...I forgot to mention that at one point, C said he was going to change his first name to "Twizzle."<BR/><BR/>Did you just love the woman whose skirt was basically just a big, moulting dead goose? She looked like Las Vegas emu.Franklinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03670441931649806878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140464644575764832006-02-20T14:44:00.000-05:002006-02-20T14:44:00.000-05:00I watched ice dancing last night with four straigh...I watched ice dancing last night with four straight men, and none of us could change the channel either.<BR/><BR/>Ice dancing is like the crack of Olympic television coverage - no one can get away from it.<BR/><BR/>The costumes! The moments in each routine when TWO ENTIRE HUMAN BEINGS ARE FLOATING ALONG ON JUST ONE SKATE, while the female is generally upside down or rolled up like a hulahoop! The twizzle! The shoulder-length hair!<BR/><BR/>It's crack, I tell you. Crack.goblinboxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13636167643991935136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140460356287096602006-02-20T13:32:00.001-05:002006-02-20T13:32:00.001-05:00Did you not love the forward twizzles?Ice dancing ...Did you not love the forward twizzles?<BR/><BR/>Ice dancing is my favorite, along with skeleton sledding.<BR/><BR/>But the crosscountry relay really was exciting. Too bad the Italians didn't have cute costumes.<BR/><BR/>Oh wait. They did.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00285597626042261061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140460334759145722006-02-20T13:32:00.000-05:002006-02-20T13:32:00.000-05:00I am with you, F., on the mesmerizing effect of ic...I am with you, F., on the mesmerizing effect of ice dancing.<BR/>Or did I just love all the ice falling the couples did this weekend?<BR/>But, I feel it's become most necessary for the Olympic Committee to ban flame motifs from any and all costumes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140454793763151022006-02-20T11:59:00.000-05:002006-02-20T11:59:00.000-05:00Looking forward to seeing the final picture.I have...Looking forward to seeing the final picture.<BR/><BR/>I have become a great fan of yours recently via coloradoknits.<BR/><BR/>I want to know how to do the grafting trick too - I don't like there being clever techniques that I don't know. Well, actually I do because I always want to learn new knitting stuff. Is there any chance of you posting the instructions just for that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140452865014428702006-02-20T11:27:00.000-05:002006-02-20T11:27:00.000-05:00Franklin, you are inspirational! Now I gotta do th...Franklin, you are inspirational! Now I gotta do the Orenberg thing, if only to try that grafting trick. So much to knit, so little time...Luciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02344151648498823945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140452636936539862006-02-20T11:23:00.000-05:002006-02-20T11:23:00.000-05:00Can't wait to see the finished piece and I must sa...Can't wait to see the finished piece and I must say am totally tempted to try a shawl. Can't be as bad as the d*** sock saga. I think I'm holding the record for the most frogged socks hereAmbermoggie, a fragrant soulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03005377054392036622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1140452316141251642006-02-20T11:18:00.000-05:002006-02-20T11:18:00.000-05:00Reading about everyone's personal achievements thr...Reading about everyone's personal achievements through the knitting Olympics is giving me all sorts of ideas of things I wanna try that I never thought in a million years I'd wanna try. Pretty cool. Not so much good for the 'keeping focused' part though...<BR/><BR/>Love today's sheep. (any news on when you think you'd be able to start thinking about my project, btw? no immediate rush. just askin') AND my Venus de Knitting hoodie FINALLY arrived in the mail today, which is happily keeping me warm as I type this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com