Briefly;
i was strolling around a favorite photography blog the other day and came across a link for this business, where you can purchase pre-worn(-in) jeans. It seems to work like this; a person purchases new jeans, wears them until they're of a particular state, then (with approval), the place buys them back and sells them as 'Butler' jeans. Ladies and gentlemen, i am impressed with the entrepreneurship on display here, and a little more than mildly astonished that this is a thing; i don't know that i will ever understand fashion of this manner. Granted, i frequently acquire my own jeans while thrifting, but that's pretty much entirely due to frugality. Also, by the time i have a pair of jeans in the worn-in state, they're about 3 washes away from disintegrating and i'm bummed 'cause i have to replace them.
Speaking of photography, what does it mean that upon viewing this photo series of an adorable polar bear family, my first thought was, 'What sort of zoom lens was that guy using?' (Or, alternately, what sort of invisibility cloak does he have and where did he get it? The fb page noted reports that "our indigenous guides bring us as close as 100 meters to the bears". Whoa.)
A labmate recently linked this article reporting a science version of Cards Against Humanity. For the record, while i appreciate the creativity/personality that CaH allows players to display, it frequently seems to devolve into an outrageous(ness)-escalation, which i appreciate far less. i had brief hope that the science version might be slightly cleaner, but then KateB noticed that one of the sample cards was "Watson and Crick slash/fic ". Yikes. i suppose Apples-to-Apples is it, then.
While walking through the Student Union the other day, i noticed this:
(i didn't get the chance to walk through later and see if it had warmed up to positive zero?)
i was strolling around a favorite photography blog the other day and came across a link for this business, where you can purchase pre-worn(-in) jeans. It seems to work like this; a person purchases new jeans, wears them until they're of a particular state, then (with approval), the place buys them back and sells them as 'Butler' jeans. Ladies and gentlemen, i am impressed with the entrepreneurship on display here, and a little more than mildly astonished that this is a thing; i don't know that i will ever understand fashion of this manner. Granted, i frequently acquire my own jeans while thrifting, but that's pretty much entirely due to frugality. Also, by the time i have a pair of jeans in the worn-in state, they're about 3 washes away from disintegrating and i'm bummed 'cause i have to replace them.
Speaking of photography, what does it mean that upon viewing this photo series of an adorable polar bear family, my first thought was, 'What sort of zoom lens was that guy using?' (Or, alternately, what sort of invisibility cloak does he have and where did he get it? The fb page noted reports that "our indigenous guides bring us as close as 100 meters to the bears". Whoa.)
A labmate recently linked this article reporting a science version of Cards Against Humanity. For the record, while i appreciate the creativity/personality that CaH allows players to display, it frequently seems to devolve into an outrageous(ness)-escalation, which i appreciate far less. i had brief hope that the science version might be slightly cleaner, but then KateB noticed that one of the sample cards was "Watson and Crick slash/fic ". Yikes. i suppose Apples-to-Apples is it, then.
While walking through the Student Union the other day, i noticed this:
(i didn't get the chance to walk through later and see if it had warmed up to positive zero?)
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