The Great Slipper Experiment
So, they reckon they've found Nessie... Again.
I forgot the woodle again. I might get something up tomorrow, if I don't forget. If I do forget, I'll probably just leave it till next week. You probably don't care about that, though, since you're still waiting for an explanation of the title.
A while back, I got a new pair of slippers. I noticed that these ones, despite being more or less the same as my old ones, wore out very quickly. The old ones were also decidedly shot, mainly due to my flat-footed plodding and the fact that, if I'm indoors, chances are that I'm wearing my slippers. The new ones reached a similar, perhaps worse, state far faster. It got really bad today when, as you can see below, the lining of one of the slippers started falling out and trailing along behind me.
Look, they're so busted,
they don't even go the right way round!
Fortunately, I had a pair of newer slippers sitting in my wardrobe, ready to replace the rapidly deteriorating new old pair, by which I mean the now-former pair that is in the picture above, as opposed to the new new ones that are below.
You know what, those are the new ones and the ones in the first image are the old ones. The old old ones have long since been consigned to the bin.
Being a scientific sort of chap, I decided that I would perform an experiment on these new ones, seeing just how long it took them to arrive in a state similar to that of the old ones. I then began to think of a few factors that I needed to consider:
1. What exactly is a "similar state" (and yes, I know the word order was different in the previous paragraph, you nitpickers) to the old slippers? This is fairly subjective but I reckon that I'll discount the lining falling out as that seems to have been a pretty random occurrence and just judge my results based on how worn the interior lining and the sole are.
2. How regularly can I check the state of the new slippers? I believe I can check them daily in a cursory way then post small updates weekly.
3. Since the summer months are approaching and the days are getting warmer, I may well wear my slippers less. I'm hoping this will be balanced by the fact that, as the summer holidays go on, I'll be at home, and therefore in my slippers, more.
4. This is the dumbest thing I've ever done, nobody cares and I'm going to forget about it by tomorrow. I haven't quite figured out a solution to this one yet, but I'll either find one or forget about it.
Now, the really hard part will be finding a way/reason to keep the old slippers around for comparison without having to justify this "experiment" to anyone. I'm sure I'll come up with something and I'm unsure as to why I'm doing this. I'm probably mad but you're not allowed to say that. You've just read a blog post called "The Great Slipper Experiment".
I forgot the woodle again. I might get something up tomorrow, if I don't forget. If I do forget, I'll probably just leave it till next week. You probably don't care about that, though, since you're still waiting for an explanation of the title.
A while back, I got a new pair of slippers. I noticed that these ones, despite being more or less the same as my old ones, wore out very quickly. The old ones were also decidedly shot, mainly due to my flat-footed plodding and the fact that, if I'm indoors, chances are that I'm wearing my slippers. The new ones reached a similar, perhaps worse, state far faster. It got really bad today when, as you can see below, the lining of one of the slippers started falling out and trailing along behind me.
Look, they're so busted,they don't even go the right way round!
Fortunately, I had a pair of newer slippers sitting in my wardrobe, ready to replace the rapidly deteriorating new old pair, by which I mean the now-former pair that is in the picture above, as opposed to the new new ones that are below.
You know what, those are the new ones and the ones in the first image are the old ones. The old old ones have long since been consigned to the bin.
Being a scientific sort of chap, I decided that I would perform an experiment on these new ones, seeing just how long it took them to arrive in a state similar to that of the old ones. I then began to think of a few factors that I needed to consider:
1. What exactly is a "similar state" (and yes, I know the word order was different in the previous paragraph, you nitpickers) to the old slippers? This is fairly subjective but I reckon that I'll discount the lining falling out as that seems to have been a pretty random occurrence and just judge my results based on how worn the interior lining and the sole are.
2. How regularly can I check the state of the new slippers? I believe I can check them daily in a cursory way then post small updates weekly.
3. Since the summer months are approaching and the days are getting warmer, I may well wear my slippers less. I'm hoping this will be balanced by the fact that, as the summer holidays go on, I'll be at home, and therefore in my slippers, more.
4. This is the dumbest thing I've ever done, nobody cares and I'm going to forget about it by tomorrow. I haven't quite figured out a solution to this one yet, but I'll either find one or forget about it.
Now, the really hard part will be finding a way/reason to keep the old slippers around for comparison without having to justify this "experiment" to anyone. I'm sure I'll come up with something and I'm unsure as to why I'm doing this. I'm probably mad but you're not allowed to say that. You've just read a blog post called "The Great Slipper Experiment".
posted by Alasdair Corbett at
10:23 PM
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