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My name is Adam. I’m originally from Portland, Oregon but go to school in New York
. My grandmother taught me how to knit when I was 7 or 8 (she also taught me how to use a sewing machine around that time though I don’t sew at all now) and I was into it for a few months but soon disregarded it in favor for books and computers which I found far more interesting. I started knitting again in the fall of ‘06 and am largely self taught. I started spinning with a spindle in the fall of ‘07 (though quickly found that it was far too inefficient for my taste) and got my first (and only) spinning wheel the day after Thanksgiving of the same year.
Other than fiber crafts I also am passionate about music and cooking. I have been
playing the flute for 11 years, though I have no intentions on perusing it professionally. That being said I have considered building flutes (as in the ones made out of metal) as a career. My first love in life is cooking and eating. I have been cooking for as long as I can remember and, when I was little, used to want to be a chef (and then realized that it would be way too stressful for me). I can cook most anything but my specialty, you could say, is baking. I also am known to make sorbet every week of the summer often creating my own recipes. My favorite cuisines are Vietnamese, Nepali, and Indian though I suck at making most Vietnamese food and am constantly looking for good, “authentic”, recipes. I also have this weird love for preparing coals for charcoal grills – don’t ask me why.
I checked out your blog after getting your comment about mac va. pc. It’s wonderful.
Thanks for your objective answer; I knew I was going to get a bunch of loyalists, but I was hoping maybe someone like you would give me their opinion–actually a few have–making my decision harder. It’s also nice to know you can be in Vienna in a class about existentialism and be bored and thinking about knitting–I had the same thoughts in Cambridge.
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March 6th, 2008 at 2:37 pmYeah I was like “well…this could start quite the fire storm but hey, it won’t kill me” when I was thinking about an answer to your question. I’m not even really a Windows loyalist (or an Apple one as you can tell), I kept getting Windows machines for so long because a. I didn’t want to switch everything over and b. at the time I was just short of addicted on The Sims and the games come out earlier for the PC.
I just get frustrated when people who try to recommend or review one product over the other because of their somewhat extreme biases. I would definitely get a MacBook Pro though and just put XP on it via Bootcamp. That way you can have the best of both worlds (and you could probably add a third partition if you really wanted and run Linux). That was a big part in my decision – I wanted the assurance that I could go back if I wanted to.
And yea – three hour long classes…no matter what the subject they are so amazingly easy to get bored in.
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March 6th, 2008 at 7:10 pmI hear about you through gadgettes. If only they knew how many knitting guys listen to there show.
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April 18th, 2008 at 2:25 pmGuido: I totally agree! I also keep meaning to suggest that they do a crafts episode – I was also a bit amused about how amazed they were that I knit, and I’m “a dude!”
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April 18th, 2008 at 3:00 pm