...maybe you had to be there...

Context: With IRC, if you get disconnected sometimes your nick lingers, and many IRC clients will sign you on as foobar_ since foobar is still taken.

This ... can get dangerous, if it cascades.

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...I just about died laughing.

I think that means I need more sleep or something.

...oops?

Following a pattern for a seamless (I hate seaming) baby bootie. There were two sizes -- 0-6 mos and 6-12 mos. I went with the larger, because part of my Cunning Plan is to randomly offer them to baby-wielding sorts at farmer's market.

It, er.

For one thing, the math on the larger size insists that 50 - 18 = 28 (which it so does not), but I think that's a typo.

It also is. Um. A bit too much on the big side.

Guestimating against a piece of paper, the sole is 5" long. Possibly a smidge longer. (If I flatten it out, 6", but that doesn't allow for width-of-foot.)

A year-old baby's foot is NOT THAT BIG.

(...is it?)

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My insecurities are going to be the death of this "gift free baby booties to random baby-wielding passers-by" plan. Individual known babies I could maybe fake by getting access to said baby and seeing the size of their feet (and then allowing a certain amount for growth and wiggle room), but ... man. I don't /know/ babies. I don't know what size I should be knitting to. And random people probably don't want some random idiot shoving baby booties at them that are the wrong size and the wrong color and arghflail. Plus I am a slow knitter so can't just churn out a pretty range of colors and sizes.

Sigh.

(And yes, I do know people with babies, but I'm scared to give them to people I know in case said people don't like them but feel socially obligated to pretend they do.)

((in one case I am thinking of sending an email saying "This is going to sound weird, but what is $baby's foot length and ankle circumference and general color scheme? Oh, and same info for $oldersib" (because hey, I can do youngchild socks to avoid the favoritism inherent in not having done booties for said sib), but. Scared.))