I had a little more time to take some more pictures and upload them of the whole build and so on – and so I thought I should probably take the opportunity to add some up here and maybe annotate a few…
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Bikes Galore!
Well I mentioned earlier that I had the whole bike thing going and that I was/am planning on doing up a couple bikes and building them etc. over the Summer just to have some fun/get my engineering side out/pass time. Well over the past few weeks I have been hard at it… Building and tinkering and buying and so on – and as a result I have a few pictures… (yay!)
More Nudie Jeans…
Well I probably spoil myself or something, but anyway, I bought some more Nudie jeans mainly because they’re so awesome. My previous pair was a total impulse buy (Average Joe 32/34) and hence they’re slightly big – but awesome nonetheless. This time I had more time – so I went for Slim Jim 30/32 – …
Nudie Jeans…
Well for quite a while I’ve been wanting to get some Nudie dry jeans… I read about these about a year and a bit ago on some site and basically Nudie are this Swedish company that sells these sick jeans that are made from dry denim. The denim is called dry because of the obvious reason that it hasn’t been washed yet. Not a little bit. Not at all.
So, why buy dry jeans? Well as they haven’t been washed – they are very susceptible to creases and wear marks and certain other characteristics that you would find ‘already there’ in regular jeans. By wearing dry jeans for an extended length of time before washing them, you can make these creases and rips and light coloured patches yourself – and make them personal to the way that you wear and treat your jeans. And when you eventually wash them (recommended 6 months of wearing!) these ‘imperfections’ and wear marks will appear and you will have you own very personal pair of jeans.
More new things. (Yay!)
Again, I’ve gone through another period of being quiet and not adding too much. But I recently got a job (as a Starbucks barista) and have got lots of other interesting things to add… Including some sweet Nudie jeans, a surround sound amp, and some bits of bikes!
Stay tuned.
Amblings as of recent…
Just as a small post to mention a few small things, I finished reading Outliers by Gladwell, and have since then moved on to Freakonomics, which I have now basically finished, so I’m really going to have to get a pile of books ready to go, or maybe just find something else to do. However at the moment (as it happens at occasionally odd times) I’m enjoying the quest for knowledge, however useful or irrelevant it may be. Now I just need to keep this quest going all though the next academic year. Hmmm. Maybe not that easy. We’ll see. As for books, hopefully I’ll find another popular economics or statistics book to read, maybe The Long Tail as I mentioned in a previous post.
Recent readings…
With all this (almost) new found time here at the start of the holidays, I have actually had some time to read books that I might enjoy in a non-work related sort of way. Instead of just having to read or understand certain texts as part of my course, which can be fun and somewhat enlightening at times, it is also brilliant just to not do that for once.