That word could actually describe my knitting of late. The lace weight Clapotis became “crapotis” – so I ripped it out. I started a lace weight Faroese shawl from Myrna Stahman’s book – same fate – rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrip-it – so, since I was in a frogging mood I went ahead and frogged the part of my Pretty as a Peacock that I had been avoiding for the past few months – so we’re back to the lifeline for the umpteenth time on that one. Even the last dishcloth I knitted from the KAL was puh-thetic – mostly just I wasn’t all that enamored of the design chosen, but also because I accidentally turned about six rows of stockinette at the beginning into six rose of reverse stockinette – so the design came out correctly – but the background was ***. Plus, I ran out of yarn and had to just use leftovers from other balls, so it’s a cloth of many colors. Works fine for a dishcloth, but it won’t be posing for any blog-shoots.

So anyway – as a means of diversion here – I just found out about “oobleck”…

Also known as a “non-Newtonian fluid“. How did I live half a century and never hear of this stuff? Probably because we didn’t read much Dr. Seuss when I was young – those books creeped my mom out so we didn’t read them. Read plenty of others though, just not Seuss. Anyway – there’s a Seuss book where a bunch of “magicians” make oobleck theirs is green. Still, I wouldn’t have thought it was actually something a person could “whip up” in the kitchen even from that story. However, oobleck can be had! And, apparently 6th grade science teachers see some value in it – although this science activity has it made with other ingredients than cornstarch and water. You gotta love a science teacher heh? ‘Let’s see…how can I complicate this just a bit?’

A couple of neat videos on how to make (and play with!) oobleck:

The Amazing Oobleck! – More bloopers are a click away

And, not to be missed (no REALLY it’s cool!) – watch what happens when a geek with a subwoofer gets hold of a halfsheet pan and some ooblek.