Ambitious to say the least

It seems that as technology takes over our lives and we find less and less time for much of anything, someone always manages to find a way to make the rest of us look lazy. Most of what I own is off-the-shelf type of products. I have a great admiration for those people who have the time to make their own useful stuff. I read the MAKE blog and generally find the time to play around with some of the more interesting and non-essential how-to's (if I have some of the components and I promise to not permanently destroy any of the aforementioned off-the-shelf type of products). But this is one thing I have to really admire the effort involved - making your own shoes. Although, I could always make and sell $500 flip-flops. Technorati tag: shoe maker