[lace] Re: Lace Express
Greetings and thanks to everyone that replied to my request for into re the April magazine. Not surprised that mine came today! But it is the middle of June! Jackie in sunny Brisbane - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: Dear Abby
Before I went away on a trip to Hong Kong in 2000 my DH and I made our wills. In mine I stipulated that my children get to keep whatever of my lace equipment they want (they can all make lace - even though they don't at present), then my lace students and friends get to select what they want and then it gets sold or passed to a Lace Guild for sale and proceeds to the Guild. I decided that was the best way to ensure that it got to people who wanted it and would use it. I have had several sets of equipment passed to me from the local community centre. They take bric a brac for sale and sell at a very low price. As I have taught there ( and taught one of the staff) they pass on lace equipment and I use, pass on to students and set up new lacemakers with it. We pay something for it and pass back to community funds or to a lace guild. The lady I taught who works there gave me all her equipment when she decided not to make it anymore and we sold it off between the class and a local laceday. Some items I have kept for new lacemakers to borrow/buy when they start out and quite a bit went to our latest youngster. Yes do think about it - a friend has an extensive collection of bone bobbins - all antique which she uses. I used to have nightmares about her pillow being stolen!! Lynne. Lynne Cumming Baldock, North Herts, UK email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] lace express
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes An interesting observation! I don't have that publication, but I have noticed the same effect in other books and magazines. Try this: turn the picture upside down. Now does it look right? Andrea Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as you continue looking at it, slightly changing your focal length it looks like it has been 'quilted' on to some white fabric. All very intriguing. Likewise I don't see the magazine, but I don't think it is that the image is upside down, Clay - I got the same quilted effect scanning my asymmetric square mat (see the current Canadian Lacemaker Gazette) so that I could forward the scan to Bev - it was basically down to the shadows created by the lace against the fabric (or in my case, paper) used as the background. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Fw: Fw: stress management
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[lace-chat] Kittens
Tamara wrote: Probably too hermetical for members who don't follow US politics. But hillarious to some of us here. And, new (at least to me) -- always a plus... One of my favourite TV programmes is the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We get it on digital TV the day after it's broadcast in the US. I like any satirical political show. We have some really good ones in the UK. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: [lace-chat] Fw: Fw: stress management
H..just not quite as satisfactory as the real stuff. vbg Lynn - Original Message - From: Dee Palinmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lace-Chat Arachnemailto:lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:17 AM Subject: [lace-chat] Fw: Fw: stress management - Subject: Fwd: Fw: stress management Thought you might like this Subject: Fw: stress management Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:15:19 +0100 http://bluestrattos.planetaclix.pt/bubblewrap.swfhttp://bluestrattos.plane taclix.pt/bubblewrap.swf To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Queenslander
I'm going to be brave and send this on to chat - if it offends I'm sorry but the heat is frying for what passes for my brains at the moment and it did make me lol jenny barron scorching NE Scotland A Queenslander is drinking in a West Aussie bar when he gets a call on his mobile phone. He hangs up, grinning from ear to ear, he orders a round of drinks for everyone in the bar, because, he announces his wife has just produced a typical baby boy weighing 25 pounds. Nobody can believe that any baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the Queenslander just shrugs, That's about average in Queensland. Like said, my boy is a typical Queensland baby boy. Congratulations showered him from all around and many exclamations of STREWTH were heard. One woman even fainted due to sympathy pains. Two weeks later the Queenslander returns to the bar. The bartender says You're the father of that typical Queensland baby that weighed 25 pounds at birth. Everybody's been having bets about how big he'd be in 2 weeks. We were going to call you. So, how much does he weigh? The proud father answers, ³17 pounds The bartender is puzzled and concerned. What happened? He weighed 25 pounds the day he was born. The Queensland father takes a long s-l-o-w swig from his , wipes his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans onto the bar and proudly says... ..Had him circumcised No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/362 - Release Date: 12/06/2006 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Upside-down pictures: Was: Re: [lace] lace express
Moved to Chat because I have nothing lacy to say. Discussion was of a picture in Lace Express in which the relief was reversed, so that lace looked like quilting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it does beg the question... why does it work that way? I don't have an answer - First, it doesn't *beg* the question, it *raises* it. To beg the question is to assume your conclusion, as in this old joke: I saw an angel! How did you know he was an angel? He told me. How do you know he wasn't lying? Angels don't lie. The reversal of relief happens because humans have a hard-wired tendency to assume that light comes from above. It takes a very strong signal to overcome this tendency, and even when we can see the light source, things lit from below look very strange. (Hence the Halloween trick of holding a light under one's chin in order to look scary.) When the light in a photograph comes from the top of the page, a ridge will be light on the side nearer the top of the page and shadowed on the side nearer the bottom. A groove will be the other way around. Our optical system finds reversed relief much easier to believe than light that comes from below, particularly when the reversed image makes perfect sense: fine quilting instead of fine lace in the picture that started this thread, veins lying on the terrain instead of river valleys in the case of satellite photographs -- reverse-relief satellite photographs are very common, because the convention is to place maps with north at the top, and in this hemisphere, light nearly always comes from the south. If the picture makes better sense with the dents dented and the bumps bumped than the other way around, it may be possible to freeze it in the correct relief by turning the page upside down, fixing the correct appearance in your mind, then turning the page back the right way. But for me, it snaps back into reversed relief the first time my attention flickers. When a picture is lit from the side, the relief may flicker back and forth, particularly if you don't know whether the round spots are dents or rivets. Finding a feature that you are familiar with may make the rest of the picture snap into focus. Optical illusions happen because the human optical system puts out more data than it takes in. The image falling on the retina is flat; you have to use various tricks to get a three-dimensional picture of the world out of it -- and sometimes the simplifying assumptions are wrong. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's a sunny late-spring day. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] World Cup
Jean Nathan wrote: . . . and it got me wondering how the [U.S.A} team came about. We don't hear about it being played in schools, only American football and baseball. Football makes money for American Colleges. Basketball makes money for American high schools. Baseball makes money for professional teams. Everything else costs to play, so it doesn't get into the news. Except local sports news in papers that regularly make above-the-fold front page news out of a heron catching a fish. (More precisely, out of the staff photographer getting a good shot of a heron catching a fish.) Recently DH, a golfer, read a headline that said something like Tigers win golf tournament. He did a double take at the intrusive s in Mr. Wood's name, then remembered that the local high school has a golf team called the Tigers. I get the impression that other countries don't give cutesy names to school sports teams. Which makes me realize that I can't remember the name of my high-school team! My grade school was the Sugar Creek [pronounced crick] Crickets and my college team was the Greyhounds -- Whippets for the girls' teams. (I wonder how one could diminutivise Boilermakers? Purdue Pete would look cute in a skirt.) I also wonder how Dean Cramer would have reacted to a proposal to call the girls' teams Greyhound Bitches? -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's sunny and warm. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Team names
Joy wrote: I get the impression that other countries don't give cutesy names to school sports teams. School teams, whether it been for rounders, netball, field hockey, football (soccer), rugby or cricket are usually just named after the school, eg the school I last taught were all just called Heathfield. Boys tend to play soccer, rugby and cricket. Girls usually play rounders, netball and hockey. Girls soccer is growing as is boy's hockey. Both play tennis. American football teams (both junior and senior), which aren't usually associated with a school but with a town or area, are given fancy names like Birmingham Bulls or Coventry Cassidy Jets. Adult professional football (soccer) teams usually have a name which associates them with a town, but might have another word added or even subtracted, eg the team which originated at the Woolwich Asenal is now know just as Arsenal, Sheffield has two teams - Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday (don't ask me the significance of Wednesday). The major professional cricket teams are associated with counties and known by the name of the county in which the town that has the team's main ground is situated eg the team located in Taunton is known by the county's name of Somerset. There are a lot of small, local amateur soccer and cricket teams, again known by their location. The members of those teams take it just as seriously as the professionals even though they usually only play at weekends. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] World Cup
Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just watching USA playing football against the Czech Republic in the FIFA World Cup (soccer to those in the US, and incidentally USA is currently losing 2-0), and it got me wondering how the team came about. We don't hear about it being played in schools, Since I don't watch TV or follow sports, I have missed most of this, except for some depressing commentary on the radio about the US team's, er, performance. But soccer is played enough here that the phrase soccer mom shows up in Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_mom Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com http://lost-arts.blogspot.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Drat, forgot to email this!
*sigh* Just found this half-written email in my Out box, not sent. I was listening to the BBC World Service on the radio last week, and was surprised to hear the announcers talking to someone in Hell, Michigan. (This was Monday night, just before 6/6/06.) I think we talked about the place back when we were sharing webcams around the world, or maybe just talking about odd place names. Anyway, it really tickled my funnybone to hear the announcer solemnly asking someone in Hell what he thought was going to happen. And predictably, after they thanked him, the other announcer did wonder how hot it actually got in Hell. (Rarely over 100 degrees F.) It's a tiny place, hardly a dot on the map. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Drat, forgot to email this!
On Jun 14, 2006, at 22:44, Lynn Carpenter wrote: I was listening to the BBC World Service on the radio last week, and was surprised to hear the announcers talking to someone in Hell, Michigan. (This was Monday night, just before 6/6/06.) I think we talked about the place back when we were sharing webcams around the world, or maybe just talking about odd place names. Anyway, it really tickled my funnybone to hear the announcer solemnly asking someone in Hell what he thought was going to happen. And predictably, after they thanked him, the other announcer did wonder how hot it actually got in Hell. (Rarely over 100 degrees F.) I no longer have the URL but, at the time, I printed out the photo: the town's name on a post, which you see as you enter the town. With icicles hanging off of it... I've laminated the photo and it still hangs on the fridge, providing my daily dose of amusement. It's also a great tool in the cause of efficiency: whenever someone (like DH) asks me to do something unreasonable, all I have to do is point... :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Kittens
On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:35, Jean Nathan wrote: One of my favourite TV programmes is the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We get it on digital TV the day after it's broadcast in the US. I like any satirical political show. We have some really good ones in the UK. I don't watch the Daily Show -- don't watch any TV anymore -- at least in part because it's aired late in the day (while I'm on the 'puter) and half of it is commercials (advertisments). But, whenever I visit my son, he has a treat for me: several weeks worth of it, stripped of all the ads, so that each segment is no more than 20 minutes or so. He himself can't always watch what he wants when it's being shown and, like me, he has little patience with the ads. So he's invested in one of those gizmos (TiVo?), which both record a programme and clean it up at the same time. I, too, like satirical political shows; suprisingly, there were quite a few of them in our old, commie Poland, and I got addicted. Still miss Mark Russel, which used to come, 20 yrs ago, on PBS (no ads g); I think that's when Danek (my son) got his addiction; we (DH and I) had to explain some of the references to begin with but then he started reading/watching the news and could enjoy the show without our help. If you like Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, you might also like Steve Colbert's Colbert Report. Colbert is much more restrained in his demeanor and less obvious than Stewart about his political leanings (to the extent that he had once been quoted as a *conservative*, to the amusement of all the bloggers. Also, his seeming conservatism might have ben what got him the invite to the White House Press dinner), but he slams just as hard. Danek records all Colbert's shows also, and we must have spent close to 10 hours watching both, during my last trip to CA. Bliss :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: the back pew
Old, but good... From: R.P. There was a preacher whose wife was expecting a baby so he went before the congregation and asked for a raise. After much discussion, they passed a rule that whenever the preacher's family expanded, so would his paycheck. After 6 children, this started to get expensive and the congregation decided to hold another meeting to discuss the preacher's salary. There was much yelling and bickering about how much the clergyman's additional children were costing the church. Finally, the Preacher got up and spoke to the crowd, Children are a gift from God, he said. Silence fell on the congregation. In the back pew, a little old lady stood up and in her frail voice said, Rain is also a gift from God, but when we get too much of it, we wear rubbers. And the congregation said, Amen -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
