Petal Busses and Cuboid Socks
Oct. 26th, 2014 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muninnhuginnor, How I Wish I Could Switch off my Nit-Picking and Learn to Love the World in its Imperfect State
So, yes. "Petal busses": that ideal form of post-peak-oil public transport for the Muscovite about town as encountered in This Chance Planet(recommended, by the way). I guess. It could be I've missed some near-future science-fictional transport trope, or even an actual technological development, or that in US Engliseh the plural of "bus" is "busses", but I find it hard to imagine folk in this really rather gritty story riding around in kissing flowers. (The image is s-o-o-o cute tho'.)
And, unless commenters at Tor.com are the most polite and forebearing users of the internet, no-one's noticed and I begin to think I'm not pedantic but mad.
And, then, just to prove that it isn't just that things are wrong on the interent, I get on with using up my Worldcon yarn in a lovely pair of Cuboid (you may need to log in to see those details) socks. I get a couple if dozen rounds in and start, as is usual for me with my shortish legs, wondering whether I should do fewer pattern repeats before starting on the heel. And, lo! I find that the written pattern in The Knitter does not match the yummy photos: each block of the pattern as written is 1/3 shorter (e.g. 4 ridges rather than six) than the pictures. The pattern as printed works: the sock will come out sock-shaped and will fit. But I don't like the version as written; I want the model in the picture. I know how to fix it, and have ripped back a dozen rows prior to recommencing. But I'm sad.
And nobody bar me seems to have noticed. No errata in The Knitter's website. No comments from knitters on Ravelry who have already finished the socks. It could be that they have spotted the difference and don't mind, which is fine, knitting is as knitter does. But.... (And I'm not going mad on this one: I got M to count the pattern from the photos and in the flesh.)
I could point these things out more officially especially as, whilst the strange mode of transportation has merely amused me, the pattern "mismatch" has cost me a fair amount of time this afternoon (I was aiming to turn the heel on that sock today, the which now seems unlikely) and the magazine was not free.
Or, I could turn off my internal proof reader.
As if....
(Still, that's one of my best lj titles ever.)
So, yes. "Petal busses": that ideal form of post-peak-oil public transport for the Muscovite about town as encountered in This Chance Planet(recommended, by the way). I guess. It could be I've missed some near-future science-fictional transport trope, or even an actual technological development, or that in US Engliseh the plural of "bus" is "busses", but I find it hard to imagine folk in this really rather gritty story riding around in kissing flowers. (The image is s-o-o-o cute tho'.)
And, unless commenters at Tor.com are the most polite and forebearing users of the internet, no-one's noticed and I begin to think I'm not pedantic but mad.
And, then, just to prove that it isn't just that things are wrong on the interent, I get on with using up my Worldcon yarn in a lovely pair of Cuboid (you may need to log in to see those details) socks. I get a couple if dozen rounds in and start, as is usual for me with my shortish legs, wondering whether I should do fewer pattern repeats before starting on the heel. And, lo! I find that the written pattern in The Knitter does not match the yummy photos: each block of the pattern as written is 1/3 shorter (e.g. 4 ridges rather than six) than the pictures. The pattern as printed works: the sock will come out sock-shaped and will fit. But I don't like the version as written; I want the model in the picture. I know how to fix it, and have ripped back a dozen rows prior to recommencing. But I'm sad.
And nobody bar me seems to have noticed. No errata in The Knitter's website. No comments from knitters on Ravelry who have already finished the socks. It could be that they have spotted the difference and don't mind, which is fine, knitting is as knitter does. But.... (And I'm not going mad on this one: I got M to count the pattern from the photos and in the flesh.)
I could point these things out more officially especially as, whilst the strange mode of transportation has merely amused me, the pattern "mismatch" has cost me a fair amount of time this afternoon (I was aiming to turn the heel on that sock today, the which now seems unlikely) and the magazine was not free.
Or, I could turn off my internal proof reader.
As if....
(Still, that's one of my best lj titles ever.)
