Frivolity

Sometimes I run across interesting things on the way to other things.

Everybody has or has had shoes. They do so much for us and unless they wear out or go out of fashion, we don't really think about them too much. We think about shoe laces even less, unless they break or come undone at the most in opportune time. That brings us to Ian's Shoelace Site. Some things I didn't know about shoe laces:

1. On an average shoe with six pairs of eyelets there are almost 2 trillion ways to feed a shoelace through those 12 eyelets.
2. The plastic tip in the end of your shoelace is called an "aglet". You can also learn how to repair them.
3. There are more than one way to tie a shoe. Ian lists at least seventeen shoelace knots, including a "Halloween" knot that looks like a small hangman's noose. The different knots are rated on a scale of 1 to 5 stars.

So, have some fun, learn something and visit "Ian's Shoe Lace Site" - http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm