I'm a bad person

I just bought two rolls of sportweight cotton in what can only be described as "printed circuit board green".

It cost me less than 5EUR, so I'm not that bad. But I'm still giggling.

Switch placement worked well (and comfortably!) on the test glove, a winter glove that I'm not using right now. Next step is to get some junk wire and lay out the traces, as it were.

eHuh?

I'm a huge fan of Instructables, not so much eHow. The former is an amazing treasure trove of projects with a well-implemented search function; the latter has some pretty cool material too, but is plagued by pointless articles such as "How To Be [insert Naruto character here]" which keep coming up as "related articles" when I'm looking for, say, information on making a planter.

Given the, shall we say, tender age of most Narutards, I wondered whether eHow was being used as a sort of covert social channel for the Nickelodeon set -- the kind of people who would think it a major victory if their little eHow bullying page ("How To Be A Total Loser Like Amy Kunkel") or guilt-trip page ("How To Make Your Girlfriend Cry", calling the target out on recent behaviour) picked up a whole thirty hits, because that's like half the school, seriously. Searching on "how to make your girlfriend cry" came up empty, but there is How To Make Your Boyfriend Cry. For the, uh, teenage passive-aggressive gold-diggers in the audience, I guess.

No covert mockery that I can find, either, so I guess it was just a passing fancy. But I share it with you anyway, a flicker of some possible internet future.

more idea fodder

...wait, I could do 3D "circuit board" design if I could somehow produce the unholy fusion of gEDA and Blender.

If Blender lets you freehand draw on the texture of a surface, that could actually work. omgwtfbbq.

...and then you somehow convert the Blender data file into a knitting pattern, which would in and of itself be a neat little hack, since you could 3D model a garment and then convert it into a pattern ... oh cloning why are you not here yet

I forgot to take my antidepressants today. Maybe I'm actually back to the point where I don't need them anymore. That would be nice.

ETA: apt-get install blender but I am not allowed to play with it till I get more work done, it is a reward