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I was sitting on the bus and listening to my music as I do practically every school day. I happened to look across the aisle from me. There sat a young woman, a college student like me, in a pair of Converse shoes with Velcro straps.
Now, I know that these things are common and in-style, I've seen them in stores and I've seen them around town. However, today it struck me just how convenient and prudent it is to wear shoes that are laced, rather than slip-ons, shoes and boots with zippers, or shoes that are secured by buckled straps or velcro. In point of fact, laced shoes are a very important and convenient-to-have survival tool; I will tell you how.
1)It's much easier to unlace and then hang out laced shoes to dry than it is to dry a pair of zip-ups, as their very design involves much less fabric and stitching. As any good hiker knows, keeping ones feet dry is VERY important in a survival situation, as hypothermia and frostbite as well as sepsis can spring up from soggy feet.
2) good laces are very strong cord. You can use laces of sufficient length and quality to secure logs and branches to make an impromptu shelter for protection from wind, rain and snow. You can use them to fashion a dead-fall or snare to capture small animals and birds, or use them as fishing line. A good pair of shoelaces are also a splint, a tourniquet, a clothesline, can tie down a tarp, can lash items to a frame for a good backpack, can be used as bowstring or as a makeshift sling, and a variety of other uses.
3) You can use a good pair of shoelaces to garrote some bitches. Unless you're goddamn Mr. T, good frickin luck killing someone with a pair of sandals or a pair of sneakers with velcro fasteners!
So, dear friends, this is why I will always wear shoes with laces.
Cheers!
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[26 Oct 2009|10:25am] |
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There's something really satisfying about taking my giant mars plastic eraser to a sheet of engineering bond that has an hour's worth of homework scribbling on it. I don't know why that is; it's like the thrill you get from building a building with your own hands that you've stressed about and worked so hard on, and then just taking a sledge hammer or a stick of dynamite and blowing it to hell. Maybe it's some sort of weird masochistic thing - I'm taking pleasure in demolishing something that has taken up so much of my time and become a focus of my life of late. I guess it could be that I'm excited to start over on it now that I've refined my thoughts.
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[03 Aug 2009|07:52am] |
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Alright, so yesterday morning, I had to open at the station, Cuz my idiot managers fired more than half my department. Didn't get to go out on saturday, had to wake up way early on sunday, sufficient to say I was not pleased.
I get home and Sonya and I have a nap together. After that we decide we want to dine in tonight, and that we want to do pasta alfredo from scratch with steamed zuccini and veggies, so we go to Sprouts and Trader Joe's to buy groceries. We end up getting bottles of great wine (Gato Negro, a Chilean wine, if anyone is interested). Get home, commence cooking. I fire up Frank Sinatra on my laptop, and pour us some wine. Sonya decides to sautee the zuccini and squash in garlic and olive oil instead of steaming. I make what was possibly the best alfredo of my young life. During all this, we are dancing in my kitchen to Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
Food's done. Pour more wine, set the table real nice, light some candles and turn off all the lights. We end up eating and talking until the wee hours of the morning.
So, yeah, last night was pretty win.
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[28 Jun 2009|11:06pm] |
Alright! Sonya has given me some words, so I will join in the meme-ness too.
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you words that remind me of you. Then post them in LJ and explain what they mean to you. (no they don't have to be long written essays!)
-Indy!
I'm a total whore for pulp action films and the heroes who star in them. My favorite of all time is, natuarally, Indiana Jones! He's simply the coolest archaeologist ever. C'MON people! He beats up nazis to reclaim important historical artifacts! And he does it all with the most awesome hat. I'm hoping to take an Indy cosplay to Expo this year, tho of course I can't really match the sheer badassitude of Whip-wielding Harrison Ford and his rugged, chiseled jawline! XD
-avatar
I don't know what it is about this show, but for some reason I just love it! I think I must have looked into it halfway through it's second season, and immediately I had to have it. I went out and bought all of the episodes as they came out on DVD (didn't have nickelodeon at the time, sho :3). I'm supposed to be a mature adult, not into kids cartoons!
Anyway, I recently found out that Mr. M. Night "What-A-Twist" Shyamalan was directing the live action movie adaptation of the series, and this kinda irked me. I was further irked when I found out the controversy over the retarded casting decisions that they've made - the characters are all clearly ethnic, and yet the actors are... well, not well suited, IMHO, and it is seriously suspect. Suffice it to say that's two counts against the movie, so I prolly will never see it. ;.;
-steampunk
Probably my favorite genre of all time! If the Victorian/Edwardian periods and the science fiction genre got funky, Steampunk would be the offspring! It's got Airships! It's got steam trains! It's got wierd science and sky pirates! It takes the 'steam' part from the spirit of technology and discovery - scientific, anthropological and social - that was pervasive during that period of history. The 'punk' comes from a somewhat dystopian bend that the genre acquired. Even the most lighthearted bits of the Steampunk genre contain darker elements of social tension. A great portion of Europe's masses toiled in abject poverty, while the elite played power games and enjoyed lives of leisure and comfort. A still larger portion of the global population lived under the jackboot of empire! Socialism, anarchism, ludditism, populism - all of these fall within the 'punk' part of steampunk. It's an age of adventure and struggle!
-chem
I'm a chemical engineering major at the university of Arizona. Hopefully I will be a chemical engineering graduate before too long. XD
I chose chemical engineering because I have something of a knack for chemistry. I may struggle a bit with math and physics, but chem seems to be right up my alley (not to say that it's easy, but I manage). I had considered going into straight up chemistry, but it does. Not. PAY. So engineering was kind of a natural progression. When I do graduate I want to move out to the coast and get a neat and cushy job where I can exercise my creativity and live the Life of Riley. Hopefully I can have all of that fun and adventure with a certain special someone. ^_-
-Sinatra
Many of the people who know me will agree: I was born in the wrong decade. I don't know what it is, but the sensibilities of the early 20th century appeal to me. One of my favorite parts of that sensibility is Old Blue Eyes. Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, they're all great, but they don't compare to the Chairman of the Board. I love to listen to Sinatra while drinking a dry gin martini. I will sing his songs (and sing those songs he didn't write in his style) whenever I can let my mind wander. I even catch myself doing it at work, at school, of course in the shower. It's wonderful stuff.
AND.... DONE! :3
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[24 Jun 2009|09:17am] |
So I'm poking around on the internets this morning, when I stumble across the teaser/trailer for the Avatar: the Last Airbender movie.
For those of you who don't know I love the Avatar series. I have them all. Yes that makes me a huge dork.
Anyway, so I'm watching it and it looked neat enough. Then I noticed who was writing, producing and directing it.
M Night Shyamalan.
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Well, nutbunnies.
Mr. M. Night "What-A-Twist" Shyamalan is directing and writing the avatar movie. He has more or less complete creative control.
I am not overly optimistic about this. I'll admit that some of Shyamalan's works have been visually very stunning, but it seems to me that the man has trouble taking some of his serious works seriously, what with his thinly-veiled metaphors (The aliens were actually jesus and the baseball bat was a freudian representation of etc. lolol). What's he going to do with this one? We'll have to find out. I'm still gonna go see it, but...
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[28 May 2009|02:14pm] |
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BRAVO!
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[20 May 2009|11:01am] |
This morning I was shaving, when I noticed something: my arms are different color. My left arm is more tanned than my right arm.
I'm a freak! ;.;
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[19 May 2009|07:03pm] |
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Thought this was funny. And sooooo true.
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[16 May 2009|09:27am] |
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I did it. Passed 202 with a 'B' and 203 with a 'C'.
SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH RELIEF, I CAN'T BEGIN TO TELL YOU!
Also, like I said earlier, those lucky kisses are DYNAMITE! ^.-
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[14 May 2009|01:13pm] |
Finally done with the last final! I hope I did well.
Also, making baklava and martinis. YAY
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