So you may have noticed that since I started this humble blog back in January, it’s gone through about, oh I’d say about 95 design iterations. I suppose I’m just picky, but I’ve never quite gotten it to the way I like it…but that’s starting to change. I liked the header with Emma, but then I wanted to update that to include Dallas, but I never got around to that, etc…
And then one day, I thought it’d be really really cool (or super nerdy depending on how you see it) to do some kind of circuit design for knitting. As you can see in the current header, we have a ball of yarn as a function of length (hence Y(l)), which is the input to our circuit. That yarn goes through the capacitor Cy, which stores up energy and dissipates it across the knitting needles, where it encounters Rf, the Resistance to Finishing. Then finally, the yarn input Y(l) is transformed into a Knitted Object as a function of time, K(t). So yeah, it’s a bit ridiculous, but it makes me happy :)
I can’t promise the site will stay this way forever, but I think it has the potential to. Especially since it works in all the major browsers, finally! (If it doesn’t, leave a comment and smash all my dreams and hopes forever, if you must). The only major change is the background of the header, because I want to scan in a sheet of Engineering Paper, the kind I use to write notes and similar circuit diagrams on, and use that in the header.
So what do you think? Am I a super nerd or what?
If it makes you happy - who cares if it’s super nerdy?!
Yes, you are a super nerd. But that’s hot.
it’s quite geeky, but geekiness I can totally respect! :)
It looks good in ffox on my mac.
[I was a EE for a long time, switched to CS when I realized after working as a EE that I was totally bored at my job and kept picking up programming sidework! ;) ]
I saw your comment on knit and tonic and thought I would check out your blog. I’m just commenting to say hi because I recently started a blog (not a knitting blog, though I’m hoping to have one of those up soon) and I hate it when people don’t leave comments, so here’s one for your collection.
The header is awesome. I don’t really understand it, but that’s ok. It may indicate a bit of nerdiness, but it looks cool.
I love the header! Vague memories of a high school electronics are coming to me…
You’re a supernerd-comment-whore! Yay!
Adam,
Sam here. As a fellow supernerd, I would say that the nerdiest way to add an engineering paper-looking background would be to create it using gnuplot (see http://www.gnuplot.info/docs/gnuplot.html#grid for more info). If it’s gnu, it’s got to be nerdy.
Cool blog, Adam!
yes. you’re a super-nerd. you’re why our school has the rep it does. next you’re actually going to want to build this curcuit.
actually, if you do that, let me know, okay? because i want to see it. you may be a super-nerd, but at least you’re not alone in that. :)
Hmmm…Build the circuit, what an interesting idea…