Voodoo cell phone

I recently found a little note to myself that says "Make a tiny voodoo cell phone (knitted) for Kait." I think I wrote the note sometime last year, but I don't have even the vaguest recollection of why I wanted to do such a thing.

Normally, I'm into happy, unthreatening technology (like cute robots), but I thought the idea of a voodoo cell phone was funny, so I figured I'd make one, send it to her as a surprise, and see if she could offer an explanation.

Here's how it turned out:




And here's the back of the tag, because of course a voodoo phone has to come with little pins:



It's only a few inches tall, which I guess you can tell by looking at the height of the pins. I made the blue screen and the buttons with the leftover yarn from the sparkly fringe on my scarf.

The sad ending to this story is that Kait got the voodoo cell phone in the mail today. She seemed to think it was funny, but she had no idea why I had wanted to make her one. I guess from now on, I'll try to include more detail in my notes.

Amazon women on my monitor

I bought some bras on Amazon.com a month or so ago, and now my personalized Amazon homepage is all sexed up. This lovely lady was today's featured image.

While I appreciate the idea of customized shopping pages, that "Long-Sleeved Mesh Sleep Shirt and Matching Lace G-String" really isn't my style.

But yeah, if you want to see sexy ladies on your Amazon homepage every time you login, order a bra through the site. I feel like I'm shopping for books at Frederick's of Hollywood.

(Note: I'm not actually shopping for books. I'm doing research on Jesse McCartney for work, and it's starting to hurt my brain.)

I should've known.

The DVD player in my computer has been screwing up like crazy. I had to watch a movie tonight for work, and it stopped halfway through and wouldn't start again. I opened up the DVD drawer to see if there was something wrong with the new DVD, and it looked fine. Then I started blowing on the little tray, thinking maybe it was dusty (the old-Nintendo-cartridge school of computer repair). While checking for dust, I noticed that one of the circular parts had a long pink hair wrapped around it.

I pulled the hair out, tried again, and the DVD played fine. This is the first time my hair has sabotaged my computer. Usually it just breaks vacuums.

Dear heart-shaped candy,

Thanks for the compliment. Usually bad grammar drives me crazy, but since you're so sweet, I'll forgive you for mixing up "your" and "you're." Your all-caps font reminds me of an old dot matrix printer, which is appealing in a geeky way, and I love the hot pink ink. I also love that you taste like bubble gum.

You're cute, tasty, and a little bit dumb... wanna be my Valentine? (Oh, damn! I already ate you.)

I knew it would happen.

For the first time ever, I just talked to my Roomba as if it has a mind of its own. It was running in the other room while I worked at my computer. After a minute or two, I heard a horrible noise, so I ran over to see what had happened. It had sucked up the cords for my blinds and was caught inside a plastic bag I had left on the floor. Here's the conversation that followed:

ME: What are you doing?

ROOMBA: [silence]

New York Times silliness



This New York Times article is about how business people are drowning in unnecessary email. After reading it, I noticed the "email this" button at the top of the page. I love the idea of sending an unnecessary email about unnecessary email. If this story shows up on the "most emailed articles" list tomorrow, I will laugh a lot.

UPDATE: Aww, look, I got my wish:

People are so silly.

I swear it was unintentional

I'm about to leave my apartment to run some errands, and I just put on a sweater and reached for my nano. The sweater I put on is turquoisey-blue, so my nano and I are totally wearing matching outfits.

For a second I was horrified, but then I realized this is AWESOME. I guess now I'll have to knit nano-sized versions of everything in my wardrobe.

My First Nano Sweater!

Note: I wrote this last night, but Blogger wouldn't let me publish it until just now.

I finally found a few minutes to finish the nano sweater tonight! Call it an iPod cozy if you must, but I prefer to think of it as a nano sweater. I don't want to be a cozy knitter, okay? Other people can make all the "cozies" they want, but cozies aren't for me.

I mean, really, does an iPod need a cozy? NO. Does an iPod need a sweater? YES.

What could be inside that tiny, charming, swimming-pool blue sweater?




My nano!



(I put an image of a cute little animal face in my nano's image folder just for moments like this. I think the backlight had turned off by the time I took the photo, though, because it's usually a lot brighter.)

Considering that I knitted this without a pattern, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The sweater could use a button so it stays closed on its own, but for now, I'll just wrap the cord from the headphones around the outside whenever I put it in my bag.

Don't drop your cell phone in the toilet

*Don't carry your cell phone in your back pocket, even "just for a minute."
*Don't put your cell phone on the overcrowded shelf behind the toilet while you dry your hair.
*Just don't put your cell phone anywhere near water, okay? Because cell phones are drawn to water by some weird magnetic force.

I hope mine dries out by morning, because I'd prefer not to buy a new phone just yet. I hate when spazziness costs me money.

Update: If you do drop your cell phone in water, it might not be dead. If you take the battery out right away and then leave your phone alone until it's completely dry, it might be fine. Mine seems to be working fine now. This is just like the two times I spilled water all over my laptop and it miraculously came back to life!

You'd think I would've learned my lesson about keeping water near my laptop after one spill, but no. I must really like having water within arm's reach.

So far, the only technology that didn't like having water spilled on it was my ergonomic keyboard. But it was okay, because it happened right after I bought it. Since I still had the receipt, Office Depot totally let me return it, no questions asked.