Kipping

Kipping

Date:	May 28, 2004 / year-entry #212
Tags:	non-computer
Orig Link:	https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040528-00/?p=39113
Comments:	10
Summary:	Apparently that's the term for knitting in public. The New York Times covered the online knitting community. I wasn't aware of the Yahoo knitlist group; I may have to go check it out. (The NYT article also mentions the yarn Fizz, which I have used, but I much prefer Splash, a totally knock-your-socks-off novelty yarn....

Apparently that's the term for knitting in public.

The New York Times covered the online knitting community. I wasn't aware of the Yahoo knitlist group; I may have to go check it out.

(The NYT article also mentions the yarn Fizz, which I have used, but I much prefer Splash, a totally knock-your-socks-off novelty yarn. Incorporate Splash into a scarf and you've got a friend for life.)

Comments (10)

(6) says:

May 28, 2004 at 7:15 am

Kipping my be appropriate, ‘cos in England (I don’t know about America) it’s a slang term for sleeping :)
Robert MacLean says:

May 28, 2004 at 8:23 am

In South Africa it also means sleeping, then again so does dosing (not sure microsoft would like the connotations with that)
John says:

May 28, 2004 at 10:05 am

Yep, in Australia, kipping means sleeping.

I’m gonna go for kips!
Daniel says:

May 28, 2004 at 12:00 pm

What amazes me most is that there are people out there with such wide-spread interests that they do delicate high-complexity software development /and/ something as time consuming as knitting. What about the preconception of narrow-minded computer nerds? It is proven untrue once again.
Mark says:

May 28, 2004 at 3:54 pm

Actually in South Africa you can be dosing and dossing :)
Keith Moore [exmsft] says:

May 30, 2004 at 2:27 pm

Daniel: Most of the good software engineers I know (including Raymond :) have other interests that are unrelated to software — photography, music, gardening, flying, knitting, car racing, mountain climbing, cooking, whatever.

My mother was a hospital nurse for >40 years. She knows many surgeons who relax by knitting, crocheting, and doing needle point.
David Candy says:

May 31, 2004 at 5:37 am

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/31/1085855487004.html
QZIE says:

May 31, 2004 at 12:26 pm

I’ve been knitting for 50 years. I teach knitting and design one of a kind hand knit pieces. Kipping is a new term for me.
Anita Rowland says:

June 1, 2004 at 7:37 am

I recently rejoined the knitlist after being unsubscribed since 1996. It’s fairly high-traffic, but there is good discussion on lots of knitting-related topics. I’ve been tempted to make a moibus scarf by current postings.
Raymond Chen says:

July 20, 2004 at 7:48 am

Commenting closes after two weeks.

http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/21/77681.aspx

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