StormcrowNov 18, 2023
mhoye
@js "I don't get fashion" sir you can tell Caterpillar yellow from DeWalt yellow from the far side of the job site and you have opinions about them, please get yourself a fitted shirt, try on something purple, ease into it. "I can't really do math" my girl you bake and you have strong opinions about tile floors, that is the starter kit right there, please go play with some prime numbers and graph paper, see how it feels. "I don't get computers" ma'am if you knit, you're already overqualified.
Nov 16, 2023 at 3:16pmWeb
Show threadElisabeth MNov 16, 2023
@mhoye
I wish I could megaboost this work of art right here 👆👆👆
@js
Show threadHTTP 1.1/418 Old Teapot Typewriter FontNov 16, 2023
@mhoye @js @annathepiper “If you can bake a cake, you can make a bomb!”
Show threadBenjohnNov 17, 2023
@mhoye @js 🤗
Show threadAndromeda YeltonNov 17, 2023

@mhoye @js it is striking how the range of computer competence among knitters goes from “I can barely post on ravelry” to “I’m a principal engineer/CS PhD/invent cryptography in my spare time”

I see a knitting = programming conference talk downthread and believe me that is only one exemplar of a sizable genre

Show threadKaren E. Lund 💙💛Nov 18, 2023

@mhoye @js A friend who is an engineer and worked on a team that designed the weapons system for a US Navy destroyer once told me she can't cook.

Seriously.

OK, pretend those chicken breasts are torpedoes and the recipe is a blueprint, then go make chicken parm.

Try not to blow up the kitchen.

Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDNov 18, 2023
@mhoye @js Idly remembering that programmable computing with punched cards started with Jacquard looms
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Nov 19, 2023
!KNITTING @mhoye @js i lost my shit when i found out LOL in NASA-speak is "Little Old Ladies", the name of the crew of women who fucking EMBROIDERED the Apollo 13 circuitry that connected the astronauts spacesuits to the aircraft machinery. THEY WERE ACTUAL EXPERT KNITTERS AND EMBROIDERERS!!!!
Show threadmhoyeNov 19, 2023
@blogdiva @js Jon Bois has a whole section on this in 17776 and 20020. If you haven’t seen them, I strongly recommend them both.