A nerdy stroll through the blogosphere

OK, it's a rainy Saturday afternoon, and I find myself Blog-surfing again. When you go to the Blogger homepage they list 10 blogs of interest and the last 10 blogs that have been updated. So I usually check some out if I have the chance. Here are some of the cool ones that I found today.

As I'm typing this up I'm listening to "My Life With Bad English", which is a series of video clips from Andrei, an immigrant from the Soviet Union. He talks (so far) about learning languages, his trip to America, and the fact that his video has a pixel that doesn't work. Plus he uses Kraftwerk as incidental music. I'm finding it quite amusing. It was does for a class, and I'm hoping he continues it after the class is over.

Did you know that Captain Picard has an online journal? So nice to know that he can take time out from heralding a starship to blog. Thought that I would link it here for all of my Trek loving friends/relatives.

I haven't tried it myself, but a new type of poem taking the blog world by storm is the Fib, which is just like a haiku but instead of using the standard 5,7,5, syllable line, you use Fibonacci sequence to determine the syllables (0,1,1,2,3,5,8). I could be wrong, but it seems to have originated from this post at GottaBook. I'll have to try it one of these days, when I don't have a two year old clamoring all over me for attention!

This blog probably led me to The Purple Crayon site, on children's book publishing, which led me to The Crockett Johnson Homepage (the author of Harold & the Purple Crayon, one of my favorite books when I was a kid). I have to give this site a good once over, it looks like fun.

I also found a cool blog posted to one of my crochet groups, written by a fellow area crocheter, called "By Hook or Needles". What really caught my eye was this post discussing geometry & crochet. I'm such a dork, I was so excited! Then again, in the spirit of fiber art & math I also stumbled across this site on Fibonnaci knitting. It's a nexus, I tell you!!

I think it's time to get out of cyberspace and jump back into Saturday schlubbing around with the family. We are all so full of energy today (ok, let me rephrase: Char is all full of our energy today, because Ed and I basically have none. Nada. Zilch.)