Happy Monkey Day!

Hello everyone, and happy monkey day! Today I have some more Nike ID shoes, although I'm sure you're getting rather sick of them by now.  Nevertheless, here are the links:
Red and blue skate shoe
Maroon, yellow and orange skate shoe
Purple, green, and orange street shoe
And here, as always, are the little pictures in case you can't load the interactive one.  The picture below is what it looks like when you scan my iPod.  Interesting.

Speaking of things interactive, I've discovered a black hole simulator (in my ongoing quest to know everything I possible can about black holes.)  It's really entertaining; you can navigate a black hole, orbit a black hole, and drop things into a black hole too. Check it out!  (Note: the link takes you to the Hubblesite black hole page.  To play with the sims click on "up close and personal" at the top of the page, then "questions and experiments" on the bottom right.  This will take you to a page with a list of activities.  All the fun ones are on the right under "Experiments."  Have fun!)

More Nike ID Shoes... And what is a label?

Today I have some more Nike ID shoes.  They're not the greatest, but maybe they'll catch on.  Anyway, the links are: 

Green and yellow Nike Air

Green, red, and yellow Nike Dunk

Green, blue, and red Nike LunarGlide

I have the little images in case you can't load the full-sized ones. And, while you're at it, design your own!  I would love to see your designs, so if you come up with any, post the link in a comment!

I also found a few neat websites, and with the gift-giving holidays coming up, they’re perfect for the geek or nerd on your list.  Take it from me.  Here are the links: 

Thinkgeek.com

Snorg Tees

NeatoShop Gifts for Geeks

Today was the first time I tried putting a label on my post.  I have no idea what that does, but it should say “Blathered by Grace at 7:04 AM”.  If it looks cool, I’m going to start putting that at the bottom of all my posts.

Snow day!

Okay, so today I have a snow day, which means I have a lot of time to dibble away on the internet.  Already I've watched four Futurama episodes and have designed yet another pair of Nike ID shoes.  Click here to see them.  In case your internet is as slow as mine is, I have small pictures of each shoe that I'll post.  Meanwhile, the weather here is dreadful.  It is freezing and windy, with little bits of snow coming down, and it is super unpleasant to be in.  This morning I went for a walk and saw a poor kitty out in the cold on my street, but I just saw it from a distance, and when I went back to look for it (I did this multiple times) I could never find it.  :(  But eventually it got too cold to stay out any longer, so I had to come back in, thaw my frozen hands, and promise myself I'd go out to look for it later.

Another Nike ID design

Guess what!  I made another Nike ID shoe.  This one is a runner and really snazzy.  Click here to see it.
If the link doesn't work, let me know so I can try to post a picture or something else.  :D  This is my second design on Nike ID, and I  hope it isn't painstakingly slow to load.
Note:  On the quiz, one question refers to my Nike ID shoes.  The shoes in question are the basketball ones that were my first design.  I apologize for the confusion.

More on shoes, and some thoughts

Hello all!  Ahead of me is a five-day weekend, which will be filled with tea, Futurama, and other nerdy glory.  It will also be full of BLOGGING, so settle in.
First, some thoughts on flannel.  It is an amazing material!  It is warm, which is becoming increasingly necessary as we steadily approach winter.  It is often plaid, and need I say any more on that?  I LOVE PLAID.  Flannel shirts are hipster-y, and can be worn in many different styles.  All said- they're the perfect winter fashion.
Next, some blather about food.  One of the things I would like to do this looong weekend is make some recipes I found in my Spanish textbook.  This textbook, while utterly useless for Spanish homework, is at least entertaining to flip through, and it contains a few good recipes.  I want to make dulce de leche, which is an amazing delicious caramel-y goo, meaning "sweet milk" when translated from Spanish.  Interestingly, the word "dulce" is also in Italian, and that means you often find it in music, meaning sweetly, or dulce cantabule, sweetly singing.  Aren't roots fun?  I also want to make platanos horneados (note: in Spanish, the word platano, meaning banana or plantain, has an accent over the first "a", but I couldn't figure out how to insert one.  If you speak Spanish, bear with me.)  These are bananas cooked in butter with honey and cloves on them.  NOM!!!
Currently, I'm reading Ender's Game, which actually I've never read before, though you'd think someone like me would be all over that book.  Anyway, is it just me, or are the plots of Ender's Game and the Shadow Children series awfully similar?  

I've also been busy off in shoeland lately.  Not only did I design my own shoe, (which I want to get made, by the way, but I'm afraid it would be rather pricey), but I also designed a basketball shoe on Nike ID that is wickedly awesome.   Click here to see it.  Meanwhile, be sure to check out http://nikeid.nike.com/nikeid /index.jsp , which is where you can custom-build just about any shoe.  As I design more, I'll be sure to post them.  Something else I did: Make a brochure for the shoe I made.  I'll try to post it here in a minute.

Shoe Designs

I'm sorry it's been so long since I posted.  I've been swamped with schoolwork.  However, I have managed to find time to design a whole array of shoes.  Attached is one of them.  I apologize that it's sideways, but for some reason my computer wouldn't let me rotate it.