Dip pens

For the past day or so I’ve had this intense urge to get out my old dip pens. I haven’t touched the things in months, but I miss the line quality I can get with a dip pen that I can’t manage with a marker. Actually, I didn’t do too well with the dips pens this time. I guess I need to practice more, or perhaps I was using the wrong paper, too fibrous.

I didn’t get around to fiddling with them till now, ’cause I was working on that for-pay project. I’ve got to make 412 teeny little images, and according to the little Perl script I wrote to keep track of my progress:
106 done, 306 to go -- 25% finished.

Snowflakes

When cadhla visited a couple months back, she was amazed to find out that snowflakes really do look like tiny little six-pointed fractal gears. (Aren’t Californians cute?) She’d have known it already if she’d seen these amazing photomicroscopy images of snowflakes. (Via BoingBoing)

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In other news, it looks like there may be no Games Club tonight; Lerner Hall is closed for spring break. Folks on the GC list are talking about meeting somewhere else, like Neutral Ground. I’m about to head off to Brooklyn to see if I can get some packing in before Sunday; I might stop off at Neutral Ground on the way home, or I might not.

And, yay, I just got the confirmation email for my domain reg transfer!