The science of optical shoe recognition

This week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, The Bus Pants Utilization, revolved around the guys coming up with an iPhone app.  It sounded cool for certain people in certain situations — it basically amounted to Wolfram Alpha with optical character recognition, so you didn’t have to type in the equations to get them solved.  A … Continue reading The science of optical shoe recognition

The Oxford shoes with the Vibram sole

My Terra Plana Button shoes arrived a couple of days ago. As you may or may not recall, I picked up some Vivo Barefoot shoes early last year and they have been great! The style of teh Barefoot is like old-school Vans slip-ons, but Terra Plana makes them entirely of natural and recycled material. More importantly, … Continue reading The Oxford shoes with the Vibram sole

A tour of my (daily) shoes

I own lots of boots, gathered over the years mainly for clubbing. Some go to my knees, some have lots of straps and buckles, some have eyelets, some zippers, one pair even has 6 inch platform soles. I have six to eight pair of fancy boots in total, but do not wear any of them … Continue reading A tour of my (daily) shoes

In which I try out barefoot shoes

Not too long ago, I was referred to a New York Magazine article about shoes. More specifically, it is about not wearing shoes and how everyone walks wrong. It was intriguing, and while I am not yet ready to jump on the crunchy-granola, dirt-worshiping, tree-hugging, long-hair-hippie bandwagon (heck, I just cut off all my hair!), … Continue reading In which I try out barefoot shoes

the way of the future the way of the future

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2006/06/I now own a pair of Tevas. I am now either officially a Portlander or officially a southern California programmer. Either … Continue reading the way of the future the way of the future