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[rm]

So this morning I finally figured out how to tie a half-windsor. Yes, I was using a shitty knot (four-in-hand) before this. I feel so stupid it took this long for me to get it, although I do lay some of this on being left-handed and so no drawing of this sort of thing can make sense to me ever, but I almost don't care how stupid I feel about having not gotten it, because I am so hideously pleased with myself now.

Of course, this was a random, half-asleep grokking of it, so I'm not actually sure I'm going to be able to repeat the feat, but I think so. Anyway, this knot? fucking superior.

Comments

[marcmagus]

OMG, thank you for linking to that book. I read one of their papers, loved it, it helped me think better about knots, and I was thrilled someone had done it. I was just thinking about trying to track the paper down and link to it for this discussion.

I had no idea they'd published their ideas further in book form. That's going directly on my to-buy list. Thank you!

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm the same. A biologist friend passed along a photocopy of their original Nature article as I'm both a mathematician and the only person amongst our colleagues who knew how to tie a bow tie. I'm glad that someone on Wikipedia added the Fink-Mao sequence to the half windsor page or I wouldn't have been able to make the connection either without figuring out which pile that paper was in.