With the loss of TikTok, I am transforming some of the bookquotes I have over to Meme format. (previous batches can be found: More Memes for the World (10/31/2023), More Memes for the World (10/29/2024), C is for Content Creation (4/5/2025), U is for Utterance (4/24/2025))
June 19, 2025 – I broke out my threads and needles again. I am working on a printed cross-stitch piece. The first and second picture show the designs. The first picture is design printed on both ends of the dresser scarp. The second is the one printed either side of the middle.
This is the full length of the piece.
6/24/2025 – I have finished the cross-stich on one side. I still need to do the loops, stem stitch, and satin stitch., I am using DMC thread 809 (light blue) and 798 (dark blue). The cross-stitch is worked with three threads and the additional stitches will be worked with 2 threads.
7/5/2025 – Deep into the stem stitch, satin stitches, and the loops.
7/8/2025 – Finally complete the project! (Just needs a wash and iron)
Displays – end, side, full length
Blue Cross-Stitch Pieces Series
Blog 1: Cross-stitch Dresser Scarf (7/29/2025)
Blog 2: Blue Cross-Stitch Pieces Continued (8/31/2025)
Blog 3: Cross-stitch Dresser Scarfs – The Sequel (TBD)
Over on Threadreaderapp, Jeremy Keeshin hosts a blog thread about making computer science more engaging. The one post assembled on April 8, 2025 is a reconstruction of 23 tweets on X (an app whose owner would asphyxiate to realize that the structure of modern software was created by women).
See, men made a machine, but entering numbers and what-not, well that is women’s work. “Human computers” that put men on the moon, that calculate missile trajectories during WWII, that entered all the data for income taxes, etc. Women did meticulous detail work, not men.
To program the first machine so it could actually calculate numbers, six women were hired: Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik, Kay McNulty, Ruth Teitelbaum, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence.
Find out more on the thread reader app: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1909626044845621299.html
Other postings by Mr. Keeshin include a female blogging about life under Taliban rule, MIT’s interrogate program, and details about Alan Turing and why he got erased from history.
This is a TikTok with something new. I got feedback to add more motion, change things up a bit from the static cover. What do you think? Does it create more interest for you?
Oh, and don’t mess with nurses. They will repay you.
Grits Guns and Glory (Bubba the Monster Hunter Season 2) by John Hartness
Photo 181097180 | Clock Moon © Vladwitty | Dreamstime.com
(paid for at Dreamstime, creator of photo is from the Ukraine – if you reuse, please pay the artist – thanks!)
Do you know what time it is? No, I don’t mean where you live … or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (also called Universal Coordinated Time (UCT). I mean on the Moon.
You see, we – we being humanity – haven’t agreed to a standard yet. Thanks to the Artemis Accords, that will change soon. The Artemis Accords have set up the political agreements needed to come up with a Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT). The project driving the accords is also driving the need to come up with the standard time measurement sooner rather than later. The goal is by the end of 2026.
You would think it would be simple, just slap the GMT up there. But remember we live in a Time-Space Continuum with a Unified Theory – one where we have discovered that GRAVITY impacts TIME. With a gravity 1/6th of earth, “lunar time gains about 58.7 microsecond per day compared to earth time.” (Thorsberg) That comes to about 0.02 seconds per year. That might seem like nothing to us humans, but for computers and calculations of landings on moving objects like planets and asteroids or sending supplies and communications between the Moon and Mars, 0.02 seconds mean the difference between a soft landing and a crash, between a communication hitting a dish or passing on forever through outer space.
More precision is needed. Especially with all the countries (dozens) and companies (hundreds) involved.
The situation gets even more fun (fun being what scientist find as intellectually challenging) because the gravity is so low on the Moon, the different between the highest spot on the Moon (near the Engel’gradt Crater) and the lowest spot in the Aitken Basin, (US Geological Survey) time passes noticeably different. At least at the level of calculations which matter to computers and interplanetary velocity calculations. The solution likely will involve atomic clocks at various locations and then averaging them, like we do here on Earth.
The Moon has helped Earth residents keep time for millennia. Now as we become Moon residents, it’s time to figure out a new way to track time.
Bibliography
Roulette, Joey and Dunham, Will. “Exclusive: White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon.” Reuters. 2024 April 3. (https://www.reuters.com/science/white-house-directs-nasa-create-time-standard-moon-2024-04-02/ – last viewed 5/22/2024)
Smith, Marcia. “What Time is it on the Moon? OSTP Wants to Know.” SpacePolicyOnline.Com. 2024 April 2. (https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/what-time-is-it-on-the-moon-ostp-wants-to-know/ – last viewed 5/22/2024)
Thorsberg, Christian. “NASA Will Create a New Time Zone for the Moon, Called Coordinated Lunar Time.” Smithsonian Magazine. 2024 April 4. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-moon-will-get-its-own-time-zone-called-coordinated-lunar-time-under-nasas-lead-180984076/ – last viewed 5/22/2024)
US Geological Survey Communications and Publishing. “Ever wonder what it would be like to wander around the Moon? Sky gazers can now journey there without leaving their desk.” USGS.gov. 2015 October 15. (https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/visit-moon-without-leaving-your-desk#:~:text=The%20highest%20point%20on%20the%20lunar%20surface%20is,is%2029%2C836%20feet%20below%20the%20Moon%E2%80%99s%20average%20elevation. – last viewed 5/22/2024)