Today I was feeling especially lazy. I thought about excercising… for about a minute. Then, since I knew I wasn’t going to actually do it I decided to do a little browsing on the Intertubes and find out what kind of activity other people were engaging in.

It didn’t take long before I decided that jumping rope was the way to go - if I were going to actually do exercise. Which I’m not. But luckily for us, these folks are jumping rope like crazy!
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Ever needed or wanted to tie a knot that couldn’t easily come undone? For example, to splice two ropes together in order to create a single longer one. Or perhaps to tie knots in your sleeping sister’s hair… no, wait. Don’t do that.

Anyway, here is a fantastic little video that shows you how to tie a virtually indestructable knot and it’s quite nicely done.
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