Because clearly I don't have enough to knit already

There's an idea that I've been playing with. For anyone who is a fan of The Colbert Report and who watches the show on a regular basis, you all probably know that Stephen Colbert broke his wrist a few weeks ago. :( (He mentions it in pretty much every episode, so it's hard NOT to know about it...)

He's still in a cast as of now. And silly Rachel gets the silly idea in her hobbity head "why don't I knit him a nice cover for his cast?"

Oh Rachel, why do you have these ideas?

Clearly I don't have enough to knit with my craft show, and my charity knitting, and my Monge blanket, and the blanket I just started for Ben and Jenny.

My thoughts are that he has thousands of fans, if not millions, and by now someone else must have knitted him a cast cover. Right?

But my plan is to hand-spin the yarn on my wheel, thus making it more special.

I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to actually do this. If I want to, I had better knit it soon, since he'll hopefully be better in a few more weeks, if even that long. Maybe I should make him something that would be more practical in the long run, like a scarf. Then again, either someone else has done that already, or we're getting to the point of being stalkeriffic. Most people don't knit things for their favorite celebrities. But then again, this is the same Colbert who has had a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor, a greyhound, and an airplane named after him. Giving him a hand-knit cast cover or scarf isn't so crazy in comparison.

What is wrong with me?

(Clearly this is evidence that I need to get a boyfriend already, so I can have someone to knit things for on a regular basis, so I'll stop toying with the idea of knitting things for celebrities and being borderline stalkeriffic. Though I'm only considering guys who can spell, so it might be a while until that happens.)

XKCD!!!!!!!!

For those of you who are fans of the webcomic xkcd, read on. You'll like this post, guaranteed.

Some of you may know that my brother, lopaanre is the president of the SFS at WPI (i.e. he's head nerd). And lopaanre got Randall Munroe to come speak at WPI about his webcomic, xkcd.

I was smart and brought a camera. And then lopaanre needed a camera, so I lent him mine. Thus, I got pictures of the event without having to put any effort into it. They aren't perfect, but there are a bunch of good ones in there.

And afterwards, lopaanre said that I could print out a comic and he'd get it signed for me. So I'm going to have a little contest- if anyone can guess which comic I printed for Randall to sign, you can have one of my authentic xkcd red spiders. (Well, authentic inasmuch as lopaanre's craftsmanship counts as "authentic" xkcd merchandise. He and his friends made like a hundred of them and threw them out into the audience. So I kept a few.) And lopaanre is disqualified, but I don't think he'll mind, since he made all of the spiders. Why would he need more?

*edit* 3 hints:

It's not the Cat Proximity comic, since that was used for the facebook invite already.
It's not the one I posted below.
It's not any of the spider ones.

There are a lot of pictures and they might take a while to upload, so I'll put the album in my next post so I can post this now.

And in the meantime, this comic was really amusing:

Perhaps I should marry him, since my name is Rachel.

Nevermind. The pictures are here:

xkcd!!!