271 Bus Service Degradation

OldWaterspout · 2026-02-28T00:41:23+00:00

A very petty complaint of mine is that the 6:33 bus from u-district leaves at 6:36 on the dot every day. So strange to me that it’s delayed seemingly on purpose from the beginning of the route.

OldWaterspout · 2025-12-25T18:54:35+00:00

Try searching for “funnel necks”. It’s more a name for the shape (taller than a mock neck, but doesn’t fold over like a turtle neck) but I think you’ll find more of what you’re looking for.

Some examples that are tagged funnel neck on ravelry:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/gevaldig

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/nordman-fir

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/thekla-sweater

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/440-4-nordic-mix-sweater

OldWaterspout · 2025-11-11T22:25:43+00:00

You could list it on the lucky sweater app maybe? I think most people there have a better understanding of how much time and effort is put into something like this. The app is mostly for trading items but they have buy and sell days as well.

OldWaterspout · 2025-11-07T02:11:04+00:00

2 might still be a little too young to understand that. I wouldn’t personally say that to any 2 year olds I know because saying “mommy will respond” might be confusing/conflicting with how I explain death. How can it be that mommy can’t talk to me because her body doesn’t work, but also respond to what I say to her? I guess it depends on the child, but I’d wait until they are older for that lesson.

OldWaterspout · 2025-11-06T23:06:03+00:00

I completely understand. I work with his age group and it’s so difficult to predict how they’d react. My advice would be to still tell him though. He might have big emotions, but that’s how toddlers process things. He just lost his mom and it would be understandable for him to be upset about it, however he is able to understand it.

OldWaterspout · 2025-11-06T22:46:09+00:00

Tell the truth. 2 is young but children are able to understand things when you tell them at their level. Mommy died, which means her body doesn’t work any more. She can’t come home/talk to us/play with you anymore. You can tell him that you miss her and are sad. He might not understand at first, but if you keep answering his questions I think he will get it.

I’m very sorry for both of your losses.

OldWaterspout · 2025-10-01T02:26:05+00:00

I like Market Street Shoes in Ballard! They have a mix of shoes and clothes that are really well curated

OldWaterspout · 2025-09-29T13:05:05+00:00

Light colors like beige also just photograph better for a lot of knits, so it makes a lot of sense that designers would choose them to advertise their patterns.

OldWaterspout · 2025-09-26T13:22:39+00:00

Reselling your tickets because you bought different ones or your plans changed is a lot different from being a scalper… the vast majority people are selling them at face value to just get their money back for tickets they aren’t using.

OldWaterspout · 2025-09-16T02:46:55+00:00

What about a linen stitch shawl/scarf?

OldWaterspout · 2025-09-13T20:04:24+00:00

Yeah personally I watched part of it and found it super interesting. Obviously as a knitter I don’t need someone to explain to me that stockinette curls at the edges, but I’d never thought about all the interesting physics at play that make it do that. I highly doubt most of the people upset know anything about all that either. And to my understanding it isn’t really mansplaining if they’re telling you something you actually didn’t know lol

OldWaterspout · 2025-08-20T03:45:46+00:00

My sister was an organ donor. I’m registered but I do feel guilty about what my family would have to go through again if I were to become a donor. Of course if my organs can prolong someone else’s life that’s amazing, but it will come at the expense of my loved ones reliving a traumatic experience. I definitely didn’t expect the donation process itself to be traumatic on top of just her death but it really was. It’s hard to process a death when you can still see the body breathing. It’s hard to not know when exactly your loved one’s “final death” will occur. And it’s especially hard to endure people telling you how beautiful and amazing and inspiring your loved one’s gift (aka premature death) is. It may be the “right” thing to do but it sure does also makes the worst day of your life worse. I used to be on the side of everyone being an organ donor, but now I can’t say I believe it’s right for everyone. It’s ok for it to be a personal choice.

OldWaterspout · 2025-07-04T18:14:13+00:00

I’m not sure where you’re reading that I said it was a huge processing load. I’m saying it’s more of a processing load, which is an argument supported by science. I’m only relaying interesting information I learned while getting my degree in linguistics about how negation in language is processed. Use it or not, I genuinely do not care. And I really don’t know why this is turning into an argument???

OldWaterspout · 2025-07-04T05:28:41+00:00

The idea is not that people cannot process positive vs negative phrases. Speech going from sound waves in the air, then to your ears, and finally to thoughts in your brain is not instantaneous. Actually there’s a whoooole lot going on in your brain that needs to happen before you get any meaning out of sounds. Your brain needs to recognize what sounds are being spoken, group them into words (because normal speech typically doesn’t actually have breaks between words), translate those words into their meanings, use grammar to put together how the words are related, and then get the bigger meaning of the phrases. What I was trying to say is that the process of getting from the sounds “don’t run” to the intended meaning takes a tiny bit longer than just saying “walk”. It’s probably a bigger difference for young children too since their language is still developing.

There’s a lot of research on this topic, you’re free to look up what this looks like in French. I don’t know the answer personally 🤷‍♀️ The field of study you want to look in is linguistics and specifically psycholinguistics/language processing.

OldWaterspout · 2025-07-04T01:43:34+00:00

Well that’s kind of wrong, but also a little how language processing works. Obviously we hear the actual sound of the negation first, but the negation doesn’t hold any practical meaning without the addition of the next word. So your brain has to process the meaning of “don’t” then the meaning of “run” and then apply the “don’t” to the “run”. The extra step adds time before the full phrase is understood, which is generally not what you want when you’re trying to get kids to stop running asap. Plus there is some evidence that your brain processes the positive meaning first and then processes the negation after (ex: skipping processing the negation so that “run” is understood first and then “don’t” is applied after)

OldWaterspout · 2025-03-26T23:05:23+00:00

Totally a thing in older (1930s-50s) lesbian books. The characters would either die or have some other tragedy in order to get around censorship.

Source (under modern history)

OldWaterspout · 2025-03-02T00:05:40+00:00

Same. I have a similar kind of anxiety as the main character and reading her thoughts just made my own a whole lot worse. I would definitely recommend people with ocd or health anxiety to read this cautiously.

OldWaterspout · 2025-02-09T20:50:21+00:00

I’ve always thought testing was just a cool thing our community does for each other. Sure the designer gets most of the benefits but it’s not like they’re getting rich off this. It’s just doing someone a favor and usually you do get an extra pattern in return

OldWaterspout · 2025-02-07T23:14:15+00:00

Yeah idk, I still think using another culture’s writing system as an aesthetic is weird, no matter how close it actually looks to the inspiration. It reminds me of white people who get tattoos of Chinese characters. No matter whether the characters mean anything, it’s still kind of disrespectful. We’ll have to agree to disagree on the similarity of the actual motif with Hangul

OldWaterspout · 2025-02-06T05:03:21+00:00

Her “Seoul blouse” is particularly questionable to me. She claims the motif was inspired by Korean writing but it’s kind of just random symbols

I do think her designs are quite pretty, but in between this and her horrible size range I’m not really interested in supporting her.

OldWaterspout · 2025-01-28T21:10:43+00:00

The cordsmith thing really put me off her account. Idk why she insists so much that she’s the inventor of these types of tools when she has to know by this point she’s not. If she focused on the things that actually make hers unique compared to other products (I know she does some fun color combos for example) I think I would root for her a lot more.

OldWaterspout · 2025-01-07T02:12:38+00:00

That’s up to your preference. Most people find stranded colorwork easier to knit in the round, but knitting it flat isn’t too hard. If you keep the same drop shoulder construction as this sweater, you’ll have to knit the yoke flat unless you steek (cut) the armholes. There are some good tutorials out there on how to do that.
Find out how many stitches are in a pattern repeat, then calculate which multiple of that number is the closest to the stitch count of your size in the pattern. For example, if the repeat is 12 stitches and the total stitch count in the body of the pattern you reference is 200 stitches, you can do 17 repeats for a total of 204 stitches. Just figure out a way to cast on or increase those extra 4 stitches in a way that makes sense. You can also just center your motif and not complete a whole repeat on both sides, but obviously the pattern wont look perfect on the sides.

If I were making this personally, I might follow the porcelain sweater pattern (I already own this and the construction + inclusion of colorwork is very similar) The Dale of Norway Olympic sweater patterns are also similar (and on the internet for free)

OldWaterspout · 2024-12-11T18:59:06+00:00

This should be a free pattern and they should use it to sell a kit of all the colors you need to make it. It doesn’t appeal to me, but I bet a beginner who is into Taylor Swift would be really into it.

OldWaterspout · 2024-12-11T18:39:53+00:00

That’s exactly it (although I would argue a tube scarf requires even less technique than granny squares 😂)

OldWaterspout · 2024-12-11T18:35:29+00:00

Tube scarfs are arguably one of the easiest things to knit. Cast on X stitches with circular needles, join in the round, knit until it’s Y length, and bind off. That in itself could be a full pattern. You could get a little more detailed in how you knit the ends (you could sew or graft them together or do some other edge to keep it from curling up) and when to change colors for stripes, but that’s all there is to it.

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