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I had been looking around for a knitted or crocheted simple belt to use for the Renaissance Faire to hang a suede pouch from, but I couldn’t find anything I liked enough and decided to design one of my own. It’s a very quick project and I was able to finish it in one sitting.

The beginning of this belt has a hole you can use to slip the other end through for a cute and stylish look.

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I found a pattern for a Knitted Skull and Crossbones Cloth on the web, by Rhonda K. White. Here’s a link for you:

http://www.knittingknonsense.com/skullcrossbones.html

As you can see, the image is broken so you don’t know what the dishcloth actually looks like. So I’ve taken a picture of mine with the hopes that it might be useful to someone else. It’s a little hard to see since I use a much bigger size needle than recommended, and the gradient doesn’t help, but it’s better than no picture at all.

It took me a bit to scour the internet and find all the information I needed to get rid of annoying extra items in my Windows Vista context menus. Of ultimate annoyance were the “Send To” and “New” menus.

Many sites weren’t of any help at all, and some replies to this question on forums were met with, “Uninstall the program”, which is perhaps the stupidest answer of all.

So here’s the resources I finally used, so you don’t need to look anymore.

Removing “Send To” Entries:
Customize the Windows Vista Send To Menu - Simple, easy, and won’t break your computer.

Removing “New” Entries:
Clear Unwanted Entries from Explorer’s New Menu - For the more advanced only! You’ll have to edit your registry for this, but it’s relatively straightforward.

General Menu Customization
Fast Explorer - For the more advanced only! It was useful for getting rid of one of my general context menus that popped up on any file or folder I clicked for an archive program I used.

I had a lot of trouble finding a crocheted pumpkin fridgie that wasn’t too hard for me to do and actually looked like a pumpkin, so I decided to make one of my own with the following pattern as a base. It’s very simple to do!

Basic Crocheted Flat Circle With Solid Center

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This is actually a combination of two free crochet patterns I found on the internet to make my own black cat that looked a bit more balanced, with some other tweaks.

To give credit where credit is due:
Basic Crocheted Flat Circle With Solid Center
Black Cat Fridgie

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Here’s the problem with Linux.

Within the past two years or so, there have been GIANT LEAPS in usability on Linux platforms. The latest version of Ubuntu is an awesome testament to that fact. The last time I tried to configure a Linux machine - I think it was an installation of Suse - I managed to break it within a few hours after it was installed. I’ve also managed to kill Kubuntu before. I haven’t broken Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) yet. This is a sign from the Gods.

So what’s the problem?

The problem is when a new user, like me, needs to get something done, obviously they turn to “experienced” Linux users, and the first thing those users say is, “open a terminal and type…”

This is very discouraging for those of us using the new installations and wondering why there isn’t a way to do it through the normal interface. The thing is - there ARE ways to do it through the normal interface now, but the people who have been using Linux forever only know how to do it through the terminal and find it easier that way - even though it isn’t easier for the rest of us who are graphics-oriented.

I’m not saying those of you who are using the terminal are wrong or bad people. And I know that a lot of people coming to you guys with questions have not “RTFM’ed”. But just be aware that help documents have improved, and that they and other system configurations no longer need to be accessed from the terminal.

And to new Linux users out there - pick up a modern installation and try to RTFM. And stop asking experienced users “how” to do things. It’s one thing to ask, “Is it possible to do this?” or, “What’s it called when you do this?” so you know how where to look in your manuals, but if you ask an experienced Linux user “how” to actually do it, you’re going to be in for a world of hurt. Just so you know.

Episode Summary

Mysterious disappearances have been happening all over Tatsumi town, and the student council of St. Ruminus Academy decides to look into it themselves when students at their school start going missing. Souma doesn’t believe that students actually can just disappear, but the others in the council aren’t discounting something supernatural. They speculate that it might be a monster, and decide that Kiriye’s kendo skills are more than enough to protect them, although Kiriye thinks that he’s not as good as they say. Saionji, who seems to be the class president, knows more about it than he lets on. He seems to know about the existence of another world, and comes across a book that he feels should explain how to get to it.

On his way out of the school, Souma notices windows rattling in the student council room. It makes him stop long enough to remember that he left his cellphone in the room, and he goes back in to get it. While he’s inside, the rattling window opens on its own, and the wind that it lets in opens the book that Saionji had earlier. Souma notices, says something about a “Dream Continent”, and looks out the window again. He may or may not have notices the boy standing in the tree outside the window. The boy has wings, one white and one black.

In the next scene, it is revealed that Saionji has gone missing now, too. Later that night, amidst an odd glow in the park, a strange girl appears and jumps away, much farther than a normal person should be able to. She lands on a telephone pole, musing about the fact that Zero must be in this world somewhere. This suggests that she is from the other world that Saionji was reading about before he disappeared. The girl keeps moving, and meanwhile a monster appears in light similar to her’s from earlier.

The scene shifts to the next day in the student council room. Kiriye is talking about an odd dream he had, in which a girl appeared and said to him “When the tree that links with this world blooms, the illusory door which leads to the continent will open. The red moon of the heavens will reflect upon the mirror-like spring and will be the door to the other world.” He thinks it has something to do with the disappearances, and Souma passes it off as a coincidence, still thinking that there must be a logical explanation for everything. Kureha, one of the girls in the council, asks for more information. Kiriye tells her that the girl had strange, long ears, but that she was very pretty. Shiina, the other girl there, says to forget about the dream because there was a wolf-like howl heard last night.
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Episode Summary

Koizumi is a girl who is always made fun of because she is tall, and Ootani is a boy who is always made fun of because he’s short. The two are very alike in personality and interests, and bicker to the point where they’re like a comedy duo. The two of them end up in summer school - Koizumi because she fell asleep and screamed aloud during an assembly, and Ootani because he failed.

The day before summer school Koizumi tells her friends, Nobu-chan and Chihara, that she’d be able to better get through the experience if she had someone she liked. Lo and behold, the next day in class a boy named Suzuki from another class is also in summer school and Koizumi instantly gets a crush on him. Ootani realizes this immediately and gets “evil” plans.

After class, Ootani tells Koizumi that he knows she likes Suzuki, and he’ll help her get together with him if she helps him get together with Chihara, and she agrees. Later on, the four of them, plus Nobu-chan and her boyfriend Nakao-kun, go to the pool. Things are going well, if a bit awkward, as Ootani and Koizumi get to know their interests. When Nobu and Nakao go on the waterslide, Ootani and Koizumi want to go also, but Suzuki and Chihara are both afraid, so they go on it together. When they come back, Suzuki has disappeared and Koizumi panics, but it turns out he was buying drinks.

As everyone leaves, Koizumi tells Ootani she’s worried because Suzuki and Chihara went home together. He tells her not to worry. However, the next day Ootani is crushed because Chihara doesn’t think of him as a boy because he’s short, and likewise for Kotani - because she’s tall, Suzuki doesn’t see her as a girl. The two help each other out and decide to invite their interests to the summer festival.

Ootani initially blushes when Koizumi shows up in a yukata, but plays it off as thinking she was someone else. When Chihara and Suzuki show up together, it becomes apparent to Koizumi and Ootani that the two like each other, so they give up and go off by themselves. They both have a lot of fun, and Koizumi later ends up blushing because of Ootani.

The next day at school, the two are back to fighting again, and initiate a contest to see who can get a significant other first.

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I figure this’ll help me remember where I left off of things so I can start back in on them again. XD

Full Lists at ANN:

Seen Some
Seen All
Will Not Finish

Anime: Currently Watching

Bleach - 127 (on hold until crappy filler passes)
Getsumen to Heiki Minna - 7
Hayate no Gotoku - 21
Idolmaster Xenoglossia - 21
Lovely Complex - 20
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS - 8
Mai Otome Zwei - 3
Nagasarete Airantou - 14
Naruto: Seppuuden - 27
Overdrive - 9

Spring 2007: 6 Episode Test

Darker than Black - 1
El Cazador de la Bruja - 4
Gigantic Formula - 1
Heroic Age - 3
Kami-chama Karin - 3
Kaze no Stigma - 1
Monster Princess - 3
Murder Princess - 2
Romeo and Juliette - 1
Sisters of Wellber - 1
Sola - 3
Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagaan - 3

Summer 2007 Anime - 6 Episode Test

CODE-E - 4
Mushiuta - 2
Sky Girls - 5
So Long, Mr. Despair - 1
Zombie Loan - 4

Anime: On Hold for Future Watchings:

Black Cat
Blood+ - 1
Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokoro-Chan
Boogipop Phantom
Claymore - 6
Code Geass - 1
Death Note - 1
Demon Detective Loki
Fate/Stay Night
Ikkitousen Dragon Destiny
Initial D Stage 3
Initial D Stage 4
Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl - 2
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru - 2
Reideen - 10
Soukou no Strain - 1
Utawarerumono
Venus Versus Virus - 1

Episode Summary

After a brief shot of a girl standing in water, we’re moved to a city, where a man is running on rooftops. He comes to a stop on a building that police have gathered, and he’s asked to stop. Not only does he not stop, but he turns around and causes one of the police officers to go flying into the air. Then he himself goes flying into the air, and escapes. One of the policemen refers to him as a Contractor while he’s escaping.

He stops on another rooftop some distance away. He sees a black cat run by, and is almost immediately ambushed by a man in black wearing a mask. He makes the man fly away like he did to the cop earlier, but the man is prepared with a grappling hook, which he uses to tether himself to the building and to subdue the Contractor. He asks him questions about a woman and the “stuff”, while getting recon info from a young-looking mysterious girl. What almost sounds like a voice in his head (different voice effect than the girl over the radio) stops him from killing the Contractor, and he leaves. The police show up, and find him seemingly dead from shock anyway.

The police discuss the matter, and the fact that they know nothing about the masked man that was there. It seems as though they are part of a division on the police force that specifically cater to these sorts of cases. They also talk about a missing girl who has studied the effects of Hell’s Gate. A follow-up internal monologue from the female cop conveniently explains that some unknown catastrophic event lead authorities to have built a wall around the city. They call the wall Hell’s Gate.

Meanwhile, a guy with hair that looks suspiciously like the masked man’s hair makes his way to the house of the landlady at the apartment complex that he’s moving into. After being mistaken for a tv repair man and somehow fixing the woman’s LCD tv by smacking the side of it, the guy identifies himself as Lee Shanshun, an exchange student from China. On the way into the apartment, he briefly meets a woman that the landlady introduces as Haraguchi-san. The woman doesn’t say anything, and just walks away looking kind of sad.

The scene switches to a gentleman’s club, and two of the policemen from earlier are talking to two of the girls that work at the club. One of the two girls, who is referred to as Ayame-chan, is Haraguchi from the apartments. After her shift is over, the policemen reveal that they’re there to look for the woman they were talking about earlier. They spot Haraguchi leaving while looking at them suspiciously, and give chase.

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