The History of Knitting

The history of knitting is usually an enormous mystery, guessed at from fragments unbroken in museums round the world. Knitting is formed of wool, silk, and different fibers that decay chop-chop, even beneath good conditions; knitting needles are basically sharpened sticks, and laborious to spot as knitting needles on the far side a doubt; they may be hair picks, skewers, spindles, or any of the opposite cardinal uses there are for a sharpened stick. Within the past, once spinning was all by hand and far a lot of long, several sweaters that did not match were raveled and re-knit. Yarn wasn't discarded till it wore out. Add in this not many of us within the past thought to avoid wasting their everyday things for his or her descendants, and there are not several helpful unwoven objects left for United States of America to search out, of these years later. Once in a very whereas we tend to get lucky. The archeologic proof we've is incredibly attention-grabbing, and there are different ways that so far things.

Linguistically, all proof implies that knitting may be a fairly recent invention. There aren't any ancient legends of knitting like there ar legends of spinning and weaving (remember Arachne? Ixzaluoh? Nephthys? Amaterasu? ne'er mind... the numbers of weaving and spinning gods and principally goddesses ar legion). There aren't any ancient gods or goddesses United Nations agency knit, no legend of however it absolutely was fictitious or given by the gods. That lack implies that it's a recent ability, developed once mythologies were established round the world. it is a shame, as a result of i feel a knitting immortal would be cool... perhaps we tend to may create one up?

A quick cruise of the Oxford comprehensive English wordbook conjointly reveals that the term 'to knit' wasn't side to English till the 1400s. More gesture around can reveal that any term that means 'to knit', specifically create loops with 2 long, straight needles, wasn't in any European language before the Renaissance. Aside from the center East, and Spain, different places within the world were even later in their distribution words for knitting. It's pretty obvious; knitting hasn't been around that long.

The Lisa

The Lisa is a personal computer designed by Apple Computer, Inc. during the early 1980s. It was the first personal computer to offer a graphical user interface in an inexpensive machine aimed at individual business users. Development of the Lisa began in 1978 as a powerful personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) targeted toward business customers. In 1982, Steve Jobs was forced out of the Lisa project, so he joined the Macintosh project instead. The Macintosh is not a direct descendant of Lisa, although there are obvious similarities between the systems and the final revision, the Lisa 2/10, was modified and sold as the Macintosh XL.

The Lisa was a more advanced system than the Macintosh of that time in many respects, such as its inclusion of protected memory, cooperative multitasking, a generally more sophisticated hard disk based operating system, a built-in screensaver, an advanced calculator with a paper tape and RPN, support for up to 2 megabytes (MB) of RAM, expansion slots, a numeric keypad, data corruption protection schemes such as block sparing, non-physical file names (with the ability to have multiple documents with the same name), and a larger higher-resolution display. 

It would be many years before many of those features were implemented on the Macintosh platform. Protected memory, for instance, did not arrive until the Mac OS X operating system was released in 2001. The Macintosh featured a faster 68000 processor (7.89 MHz) and sound. The complexity of the Lisa operating system and its programs taxed the 5 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor so that consumers said it felt sluggish, particularly when scrolling in documents.

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Finally, a new post

Moving has taken over my life, but I managed to get many boxes unpacked over the weekend. I wish I counted how many boxes of books we had...but it was wonderful to uncover old friends. The house is shaping up nicely, and tonight I hope to begin tackling the room of hell, aka the room where I dumped everything I didn't want to deal with yet.

I finished a book over the last few weeks, A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (13). Shreve is someone I turn to when I need mindless reading. This was much better than I expected. She juxtaposes the wedding of two former classmates who were apart for many years after being high school sweethearts--they are now in their early 40s--with the tale of a young doctor in Halifax during WWI. Both stories were captivating.

Now I'm reading Sister Carrie, which is much better than I expected. It's part of my project of reading both the Radcliffe and Modern Library 100 best fiction lists.

I'm still knitting the denim baby pants from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts. It's good to have an easy project while my life is so chaotic, and they're going to be adorable. Next I hope to make some baby hats for Afghans for Afgans, but my mom is nagging me to knit the teddy bear I promised her last May.

I also found a co-op in the neighborhood and signed up for a share of veggies for next week. Next Saturday, I'm going to explore the organic farmers market before taking a beading class, something I've wanted to try for a long time. I was relieved to find good supplies of organic produce; Sweetie and I have been spoiled by living around the corner from an organic market. I didn't know if they would have anything like it in Houston. It's even better to buy straight from the source.