{"id":20,"date":"2011-09-19T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/09\/nerdiness-olde-and-new\/"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:15:28","slug":"nerdiness-olde-and-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/09\/nerdiness-olde-and-new.html","title":{"rendered":"Nerdiness Olde and New"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bRL0w28RAxs\/Tna17CfJBFI\/AAAAAAAABmE\/afPAljrA3r8\/s1600\/DSC04469.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bRL0w28RAxs\/Tna17CfJBFI\/AAAAAAAABmE\/afPAljrA3r8\/s400\/DSC04469.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Renaissance Faire this weekend was lovely. \u00a0I\u2019m putting up two photos here, and I want to give credit where it\u2019s due. \u00a0I made my dress last summer using <a href=\"http:\/\/butterick.mccall.com\/b4571-products-4846.php?page_id=385\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Butterick pattern B4571<\/a>, \u00a0which was easy to follow. \u00a0I adapted the pattern for my boyfriend\u2019s surcoat from <a href=\"http:\/\/corvustristis.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/13\/sewing-a-surcoat\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a tutorial on Corvus Tristis<\/a>. \u00a0I got the insignia by googling \u201chufflepuff badger\u201d until I found something I could trace. \u00a0Oh, and I only <em>wish<\/em>\u00a0I could claim I had something to do with the armor in the picture at the end, but I bought that at the fair.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer your nerdiness a little more high-tech and futuristic, I\u2019ve just found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2011\/09\/portal-is-used-to-teach-science-as-valve-gives-game-away-for-limited-time.ars\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Portal <\/em>is available as a free download through Tuesday<\/a>. \u00a0I\u2019ve always heard it highly recommended (<em>Ars Technica<\/em>\u00a0wrote: \u201c<em>Portal<\/em> is one of the rare games that can change the way we think about the world, how we view the physical space around us.\u201d), so I\u2019m really excited to give it a try. \u00a0Like pattern alteration, <em>Portal<\/em>\u00a0turns on spatial reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll get something up to start responding to comments on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/2011\/09\/soup-nazi-approach-to-sex.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Soup Nazi Approach to Sex<\/a>\u201d this afternoon or early tomorrow. \u00a0In the meantime, here\u2019s another shot of our costumes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z5L0xcX8BoU\/Tna3vYzJccI\/AAAAAAAABmI\/IdSVZbtZZJc\/s1600\/DSC04500.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z5L0xcX8BoU\/Tna3vYzJccI\/AAAAAAAABmI\/IdSVZbtZZJc\/s640\/DSC04500.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4256452356987023523-8577520962814288197?l=www.unequally-yoked.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Renaissance Faire this weekend was lovely. \u00a0I\u2019m putting up two photos here, and I want to give credit where it\u2019s due. \u00a0I made my dress last summer using Butterick pattern B4571, \u00a0which was easy to follow. \u00a0I adapted the pattern for my boyfriend\u2019s surcoat from a tutorial on Corvus Tristis. \u00a0I got the insignia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-costuming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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