Upon being introduced to fresh figs:

fresh fig

T: That’s odd. It doesn’t taste anything like a Fig Newton.

B (source of figs): Sorry, I don’t have a Newton-tree in my yard.

Maybe you had to be there…

And pretty, pretty shiny fiber:

fresh fig

And now, back to Thing 1…

Welcome!

I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.

I also do some science and write some fiction.

I’m Phiala most places on the internet.