I've found this site something like 10 years ago and changed how I tie my shoes. I do a double loop thing and I never have to stop to tie them back because they came loose. Whenever I see a soccer player stop to tie his laces I laugh and say that that should be the first thing the coaches teach and this site would be a great resource for that.
Ian's Shoelace Site
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#102I abandoned shoes with laces about 10 years ago. Only got such with zippers (boots) or elastic straps left (sneakers). Probably saved me a few days of life since then ;)
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#103This man changed how I tie my shoes. This sounds small, but frankly, it was one of the largest changes I have ever made to my life. Why? Because I learned to tie my shoes at the age of 5 or 6. It's something that was ingrained into my bones. A physical memory, an act that was undeniably of the flesh, not of the mind. Changing muscle memory is really tough, especially when it's 30 year old muscle memory. But the doubl…
Me too - I've used Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot for the last ten years or so, and never since have my shoelaces ever come undone, nor have they ever been difficult to untie. It's a small thing, but it will benefit me in a minor way for the rest of my life.
Totally agreed, I learned Ian's secure knot 10 or so years ago, and not only do my shoes never come undone, but I've also taught a whole pile of people it as well!
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
The t-shirt folding thing is great. Anyone know something similar for any other type of clothes?
A woman named Konmari is famous for doing this kind of thing for everything .
I believe the woman to whom you are referring is named "Marie Kondo".
The NYTimes wrote up a fairly lengthy article about her in July 2016, which I've been meaning to read: "Marie Kondo and the Ruthless War on Stuff". [0]
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/marie-kondo-and-...
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#105Nicholson Baker's _The Mezzanine_ is a meditation on innovations of the post-industrial world, the inanities of corporate culture, and a humorous look at a somewhat neurotic obsessive who identifies points of personal hygiene as major milestones in his personal development.
A quote from my well-worn copy:
| I tried to call up some sample memories of shoe-tying to
| determine whether one shoe tended to come untied more often
| than another. What I found was that I did not retain a single
| specific engram of tying a shoe, or a pair of shoes, that dated
| from any later than when I was four or five years old, the age at
| which I had first learned the skill. Over twenty years of empiri-
| cal data were lost forever, a complete blank. But I suppose this
| is often true of moments of life that are remembered as major
| advances: the discovery is the crucial thing, not its repeated
| later applications. As it happened, the first three major advances
| in my life--and I will list all the advances here--
|
| 1. shoe-tying
| 2. pulling up on Xs
| 3. steadying hand against sneaker when tying
| 4. brushing tongue as well as teeth
| 5. putting on deodorant after I was fully dressed
| 6. discovering that sweeping was fun
| 7. ordering a rubber stamp with my address on it to make bill-
| paying more efficient
| 8. deciding that brain cells ought to die
|
| --have to do with shoe-tying, but I don't think that this fact is
| very unusual.
The novel is fantastic if you enjoy meditative digressions regarding everyday inventions. I recommend it highly.
EDIT: add recommendation, fix OCR mistakes, punctuation.
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#106Dammit, I need a crib sheet that puts the tying steps all on one page -- it's a real pain stopping in between steps to scroll down, then trying to get my fingers back into the correct position.
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#107Fun tech crossover, the word "aglet". In addition to the shoelace word, it was also the name of a Java mobile agents framework from IBM ~1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglets
I once explained to a co-worker that we needed to buy a packet of "ethernet aglets." They knew exactly what I was talking about, and to this day I still don't know what the actual name for the things is.
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#108Thanks, everyone, for stopping by and visiting my shoelace website. Fun to see that it is still highly respected, and from folks such as yourselves, that's pretty cool!
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#109this site comes up often and it usually sparks conversations about shoelaces, but i want to see the algorithms(o) and database schema the consistency in the images, and the seemingly exhaustive quantity, implies they were algorithmically generated i would love if each image had a build array that documented how to draw the laces using a minimalist(i) notation representing connections and nodes this paired with simple…
Like you, I'd love to pass a simple minimalist string to a Javascript code to render images client-side. My more recent "Create-a-Lace" does just that, dynamically generating all the .svg images using client-side Javascript. However, I've yet to see browsers correctly render shadows, without which the diagrams lose depth. When that hurdle is overcome, I may well extend this concept to all lacing methods.
In the meantime, I do indeed need to resort to some 600+ individual .png images in order to render each of the 50+ lacing methods with their many variations and multiple numbers of eyelet pairs.
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#110I do the standard shoelace knot the other way round from his page ( http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/standardknot.htm ). I bet I've saved at least 1 minute over the past 35 years from doing this. 1. start with left over right starting knot 2. hold loop in left hand, thumb and index finger 3. feed other lace round the front, holding it with right thumb+index finger, then round the back, then through the hole, so it lan…
Well described! The fingers are indeed in superior positions for grabbing the bunny ears.