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Re: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

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Post by Kirby64 »

codesnik wrote: post #170
coldtea wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Use a clean microfiber cloth. ANYTHING ELSE will scratch your lenses up. No, it wont. I'm cleaning mine for decades with anything at hand (cotton shirts, napkins, etc) and not a scratch. And of course there's the little fact that microfiber cloth is a recent synthetic thing. People used cotton and linen squares, or chamois leather ones if they felt fancy, to clean their glasses.

but glasses were made of glass, and nowadays most are plastic.

They’re also typically covered in hard anti reflective coatings. Making them similar to glass in scratch resistance.

Re: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

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Post by xdennis »

This is similar to how I ties my shoes, without the double twist though.

Even as a kid, I thought of it as a problem decomposition:

1) tie a knot

2) fold ends in half

3) treat the folded strings as a single string and go to step 1 and exit

Re: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

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Post by jaggederest »

If you like that, you'll really like https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/doublehelixlacing.htm

Basically, it reduces the friction so you can yank once to get your laces perfectly tight, or pull upwards to loosen them, instead of having to adjust each section independently. Combined with the double lock knot, it's ideal for high boots or above the knee boots with ~14-20 eyelets like the tall doc martens.

Re: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

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Post by abustamam »

I tie my shoe laces with Ian knot. I know it by muscle memory.

But when I try to tie something that isn't facing me (like my daughter's hat) then suddenly I completely forget how to tie any knot except good ol square knot.

Re: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

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Post by dzhiurgis »

twodave wrote: post #22
jonathanlydall wrote: post #13

I only realized in my 30s that I had been tying my shoelaces wrong my whole life and a super minor change in my method has changed them from coming undone multiple times per day (unless double knotted), to instead staying tied the whole day with just a standard shoelace knot [0] (also on Ian's site). This article's web page actually has the essential note: > NOTE: If your finished knot comes out crooked (eg. loops po…

I tried writing a similar comment. Yours is much clearer. This 100%. As a runner I used to have to re-tie multiple times per run. I corrected my mistake with this same fix probably a decade ago and haven’t had a loose shoelace since.

I learning this on sailing trip, reefing knot is simply shoelace knot, but you need to make sure each loop is opposing. Game change. And then you learn about bowline.

Re: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

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Post by tharkun__ »

MarkusWandel wrote: post #159
whitepoplar wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, how do you properly clean glasses?

Maybe this isn't proper, but, what I do is wet them, rub them with a tiny amount of dish soap, then rinse them under the hot water tap. Then blow the droplets off both sides and let the rest air dry. We have soft water here, so no water spots. No rubbing dry with any kind of cloth.

Tap water if chlorinated is not great for the coatings on modern glasses I've been told. YMMV if you're not in such a place.

I mix my own spray bottles from dish soap, non chlorinated water and a bit of rubbing alcohol actually. Water is softened.

Re: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

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Post by ssl-3 »

deepsun wrote: post #53
delichon wrote: post #32

When I was six or seven my older brother untied my shoelaces when I wasn't looking, and I tripped on them and almost fell down. This was apparently a traumatic event for me since it has affected my behavior ever since. I've double-knotted my shoelaces every time since then, usually remembering why. For about the last 57 years. When I was about 12 the same brother tried it again and failed due to the double knot. It w…

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I worked with a guy once that liked to do stuff like untie peoples' shoes -- while they were standing on a ladder, working with their head inside of a ceiling.

One time, he even managed to re-tie the laces of my boot to a rung on that ladder. I almost fell down and ate shit due to this nonsense, and he found the whole thing to be particularly hilarious.

I don't think I was a victim here, nor do believe that I have PTSD, but I can definitely say that I learned that this dude was a fucking asshole.

Am I better for having learned that? Does my past tolerance for his dumb shit make me a better person today? Am I better off where I am today than I might be if I had responded by beating him with a Crescent wrench until he was unrecognizable?

Anyway, he didn't last at that job. The last I heard about him was several years later; he was in some kind of recovery house a couple of hours away after he pissed someone off to such an extent that they became motivated to try to saw his foot off with a broken coffee pot.

I thought that was pretty funny.

(To answer my own rhetorical questions: I'd probably be a better person today if I hadn't been forced to learn to be so detached in the first place.)

Re: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

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Post by txhwind »

This is the first shoelace knot my parents taught me. We call it "butterfly knot". It's always my default choice with muscle memory, unless the shoelace is not long enough to create the "bufferfly wings". It's secured enough for daily use, and easy to release. Also the best choice for apron knot.
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