a thread for what we want to learn about

i would like to learn how to make clothes for myself. i have recently started playing with my sewing machine again, but i would also like to learn leatherwork.

along the same lines, i want to learn about lingerie construction (seriously).

so evidently i need to work with my lady friend to do a how too story on how she makes leather bikini's whenever her friends get married...

i do honestly need to get on some clothing people onto some home sewing stories...and "shopping guides" for affordable but not crap materials

would any of the foodie noizers wanna start throwing out ideas on how to shop for good ingredients on the cheap in the various cities we live in? and how to support more sustainable food shopping?

there's the market along the base of the manhattan bridge in chinatown (i think it's like the dead end of forsyth st?). if you can cook or freeze/otherwise preserve things immediately, then you can get wholesale quantities of vegetables and fruits at basically wholesale prices. the catch is that it's all stuff that's about two days from going bad (still totally fine to eat, though).

also, i feel like i've been reading a lot lately about efforts to get greenmarkets into lower-income neighborhoods and a push to get those who receive foodstamps into the whole greenmarket loop.

www.cenyc.org/?gclid=CPSDo-HRo5ECFQukHgodpUicYQ - might be a good starting point for info.

yeah, i shop in that green market and in the insane grocery as often as i can...they used to have these sweetpotato noodle ramen-like packs there, but havent had them the last few times i went...

this needn't be the space to throw out suggestions to that end..just wondering people wanted to collaborate on it...we all have our tricks

but yeah, ive kept up with some of the talk of trying to improve markets in lower income 'hoods...but have fallen off...should be looking into that

A friend of mine is applying to grad skoo now for food policy etc, with her personal bugaboo being under-served groups like the elderly, the poor, school kids, etc. She's been interviewed for that Bklyn food mag already, and bunch of other stuff re that one big park in Bk...you know.

Maybe when her aps are done she might be interested...

I need to learn Perl

and I want more pop-math books that are suited for the person who can get by with stats and cryptology and game theory to a limited extent but only when presented in a fashion suiting those whose highest level of formal education in the subject was calculus II and basic accounting

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I've become depressingly incurious.

i wish i knew more decent math people...maybe i do..hmmmmm...fun math for smart retards is a worthy projct

I remember doing find in crypto until there was some calculus

I got an "A" in Discrete Maths, go figure!

jw can u recommend perl starters for tards

I haven't done much structured perl. I learned a lot from the oreilly camel book but that was like 10 years ago.

The implicit $_ variable and the regular expression syntax are a joy to work with though.