Geek Art: Needlework Brings Together Programmers, Crafters

Jodi showed me this earlier, and I wanted to blog it, but got distracted with hacking the Gibson I mean arguing with Rystefn. Oh well.

Needlepoint geekery can be found at wired.com. It’s pretty awesome, actually. I kind of want a blanket embroidered with a motherboard design. Or maybe embroidered with FORGED HEADERS FROM YAHOO AND GMAIL ZOMG. It sure is geeky. I bet I could spoof me some blankets like nothing, because being an IT guy is just like being a Level 4 Wizard with 12 points in Intelligence!!!!1

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Geek Art: Needlework Brings Together Programmers, Crafters
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6 thoughts on “Geek Art: Needlework Brings Together Programmers, Crafters

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    I’ve done cross-stitch before, but never embroidery. Cross-stitch is akin to pixel-by-pixel creation of an image, so it’s familar for geeks. It’s also a rather relaxing way to get away from the computer for a while.

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    Someone I know at work actually cross-stitches some of her favorite screenshots from World of Warcraft. She also owns weasels, so that says something about her too.

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    There is software available for converting graphic images into cross-stitch patterns. It’s been several years since I looked into them, though, and that was before I became a Linux junkie. I see now that this is available:

    kxstitch – cross-stitch pattern creator and editor for KDE

    Damn me and my Gnome desktop!

    I’ll stick to our four cats for pets. Are her weasels actually ferrets (members of the weasel family, but domesticated)?

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    Update: kxstitch works fine under gnome, imports graphics to turn into patterns, selectable floss color schemes, etc. I may have to get out my hoop and needle again. LOL

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    Hahaha, yes, they’re ferrets. Brain fart or something. I was up too late last night, up too early this morning, and I’d quit coffee some time ago. Went off that “quitting” bigtime today.

    The only problem I have with using KDE stuff on Gnome (other than the UI being just weird to me), is the fact that you end up installing all the libs just for one stupid app. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have switched to Rhythmbox when I switched to Gnome, would have kept Amarok. Then Amarok did their UI redesign and I’m happy I switched.

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    The KXStitch home page says “KXStitch is being developed for Linux using KDE/QT”. Synaptic didn’t ask me for any extra libraries, as anything necessary was there from previous requirements. The UI seems to be fairly straightforward. Nothing out of the ordinary is noticable. I just might end up using this one at some point. Maybe a nice Ubuntu logo in cross-stitch… LOL.

    I never did use Amarok. I used XMMS until Rhythmbox became the standard install on Ubuntu.

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