Not For Attribution

Yes, I know everyone is sick of the Bush/Iraqi shoe incident.

I got many-a-lol out of it, but now I’m all for putting the shoe-flinging behind us.

But today, Wired’s Danger Room blog (I feel, this is the best/most interesting blog evar) posted the history of shoe-based weaponry, and it is surprisingly interesting.

Some highlights.

• A shoe is classified as a “hazardous” weapon because “Within the nonlethal community, it is generally accepted that any impact exceeding 58 foot-pounds of kinetic energy will result in a potential fatality.”
• There are international competitions for shoe-throwing, known as “Wellie Wanging.” The rules are odd.
• German saboteurs planned to use the heels of their boots to hide bombs, and of course there’s Richard Reid. (In other news, saboteur is my new favorite word.)
• And of course there’s Rosa Klebb and the obligatory Random Task.

I caved. The law made me. I got one of these damn things.

I feel like a freaking idiot. I vow to never wear it outside of my car. It reminds me of this:

After the craziness that was the first day ended, the realization that I was an intern began today. I was ready to write anything yesterday, so I wrote a reported and wrote a story quickly and turned it around by like 4 yesterday. It wasn’t edited until about 5 today. But at least the editor didn’t change a word. In the meantime I made calls to compile a listing that won’t print for a while and hoped for an assignment. I forgot how slow things can get working 9-10 hours a day. Tomorrow I will continue to work with the central team (city gov./education) and do some GA so it should work.
I also have been begging to get on a blog or start one, and it looks like I might contribute to GritCity (I would link but I am on my phone) so hopefully that works out. I just feel like I could and should be doing so much more.
And I don’t really know why people would care, but oh well.