Q: What do 100 year old knitting patterns and a lost Robert Louis-Stevenson story have in common?

A: A digitally preserved newspaper page.

Q: What about if you add:

• URIs for knitting materials
• William Blake’s Engravings
• The similarities/differences between XMPP, HTTP and NNTP
• Web crawling as data integration
• Project coordination with rooms on FriendFeed
• brewing Kombucha

A: Just a typical lunch time conversation at Pete’s with a couple people I work with. The cool thing (for me) is that this is normal, involves a host of smart/interesting characters, and is routinely encouraged. I love my job.