Hooray! I realized that I didn’t have to use CGI but can use JavaScript to create my knit increase calculator. Anyway, it’s done. Give it a whirl.
I’ll be moving it to somewhere else, once I’ve revamped my web pages, but for now, it will do.
Still working on the vest. I’ve finished the sleeve decreases in the back. Just need to finish knitting the back with Brown Sheep and then I can start the fun with Kureyon on the front!
Yes, I’m a geek at heart. I built a little perl script yesterday (honest, this is related to knitting) that will create a knit “pattern” for an increase row, based on 2 input values: number of starting stitches, and the number of stitches that you want to add.
For example, if you want to increase 12 stitches evenly across a row with 93 stitches, it will produce the following:
k2, inc 1, (k8, inc 1) 11 times, k3
Ending with a total of 105 stitches
You will, of course, substitute in your pattern into this knit row. If you are doing a k1, p1 ribbing, then instead of k2 to start, you would k1, p1 before the first increase.
I got the idea when I saw a post in one of the Yahoo!Groups Mailing Lists asking about where to find a “calculator” on the web. And I thought, how hard would it be to build one? It’s just a math equation, right?
Anyway. I think it’s pretty nifty. Now, I just need to figure out how to do some cgi programming so that I can run this via a web browser instead of needing to log into my server to run the script.
Yeah, I was the one in 8th grade who spent hours trying to create a generic BASIC program on my old Atari 600 to do my algebra homework that I could have finished in minutes if I had just done it by hand. But what would have been the fun in that? (That should also give you an idea of how old I am … who out there even remembers that Atari actually was competing with Apple for the home computer market?)
Being on call is a drag. You can’t leave town. You can’t plan for events that take all day or goes late into the night. You just never know when disaster will strike. You can hope that you will have the hours from noon to 5 free, because, if all goes well, that’s the “quiet” time between Japan and Europe reporting hours. Sigh. The perils of working for an international company.
On the plus side, a lot of this is “hurry up and wait.” You get paged. Most times, there’s not much you can do after the initial troubleshooting, alerting the right parties of the issues, and wait … and wait.
What can I do? KNIT! I tried spinning, but I can’t really do that in front of the computer and periodically hit the refresh button to see the status of the current jobs. It’s much easier to do this with a knitting project.
Although, I suppose I can invent some sort of music stand type of thing for my laptop and put it next to the spinning wheel …
After spinning the silk, I got into the spinning mood. I found some mill end rovings in my stash and started working on those. I finished up 9 oz of a brown/white roving that turned into this really pretty light grey ragg 2-ply yarn (about 500 yards). It was really soft and wonderful to spin. I have no idea what is in it. Merino? Perhaps some alpaca? Luscious.
There’s about 8-9 oz of pink roving of the same stuff. I’m about half way through spinning the singles on that.
I told Martin that I am thinking about making a cropped sweater for myself with the yarn. Although it would be first time I would wear pink and grey since my preppy period during the freshman college days. Martin thinks I’m joking.
As I said, spinning and computer work don’t really go together. So, I started a sweater vest with Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Worsted and Kureyon. This is a Christmas present (Martin helped me pick out the colors). I’ve been putting it off. It shouldn’t take long, since I already made one similar for Martin’s Birthday and it took about 7 days. I should have plenty of time to finish it.
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