Two things:

1: My inbound e-mail is snafu; comment here if there's anything urgent I need to know. Hopefully it will be back up later this morning, but who knows, right?

2: This will likely entertain those of you who like excessive geekery.

And you folks think I'm bad...

Original post by metahacker: Bavillion: the number of stitches required to construct a medieval tent.

Comment by hugh_mannity: So how many to knit a pair of period hose at period gauge?

Reply by dsrtao: Two trousend.