Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Pillow Book II, day 3

No picture today, but i finally have the pages in a configuration I like, and I have the sections mostly sewn together. (I was almost done actually, but we had to leave for the Random Movie). I decided to hand sew the sections together, leaving the threads open and dangling; I even left the yellow thread that I used to baste the multiple tulle sheets together. I just liked it. I did put a dab of pva at the ends of the threads so they won't pull out. I like that the whole thing looks sort of tenuously put together. See this entry for day 2 on this book.

The Random Movie tonight was Juno. We're a bit too old to understand some of the dialog, and all the best lines I could understand were already in the trailers. Alvin and the Chipmunks lost out in the random selector, as did a host of other movies (5 movies to choose from tonight, the most we've had in several weeks now).

Whoa, and I just now realized that the deadline for the winter Simultaneous Gocco Print project is this Saturday!

6 comments:

Michael5000 said...

Is the Random Movie really random? If so, what is the randomizing procedure?

fingerstothebone said...

We make a list of the movies we won't refuse to see (numbered 1-n) and invoke jot -r x 1 n on unix which gives us x of -r(andom) numbers in the range from 1 to n.

So 'jot -r 1 1 5' gives us 1 random number in the range from 1 to 5. Jot doesn't get to see the actual list of movies, and therefore can not make subjective, peanut gallery choices, on the movie selection.

However, I was so disappointed that the chipmunks movie was not chosen that the Good Prince has promised me an extra, non-random movie this week!

fingerstothebone said...

I should also add that movies have to pre-qualify to get on The List. There are lots of movies we want to see that has a last showing at 9:15pm or earlier, and we just can't make it to those. 9:45pm or later is much more realistic.

Actually, other people have asked about the Random Movie selection procedure, so maybe there will be a whole post devoted to it some day.

Michael5000 said...

Well... you know, if I keep my blogging stamina, there will eventually be a DorkFest2008. I just thought I'd mention that.

Michael5000 said...

...mention it admireingly, as I'm sure you understand.

fingerstothebone said...

Yes! I knew it! I knew that Random Movies could score me some points!