I picked up a pair of Converse All stars last week for about $7 from Pac Sun.I was told that Chucks are a hassle to wear, and they were until I made a few compromises. The biggest problem I’ve found concerns the laces.

If you lace Chucks as you would any normal shoe, over the course of a week you’ll notice that they get extremely tight around the toes and middle (assuming you are wearing normal chucks, this won’t apply to slips ons or low cuts). This doesn’t help the fact that you might find the tongue getting lost in the shoe from time to time. They’ll take a lot longer to put on and take off like this. It’ll probably be uncomfortable as well.

The solution? Different Lacing. I experimented with a few different types of lacing, and I found that Straight (Fashion) Lacing is the best solution to this problem. When tied your Chucks will feel tight and comfortable, but when untied and taken off they loosen up again, so there isn’t much difficulty putting them back on.

So recently I’ve noticed an abnormal amount of cars, trucks and vans advertising websites on the back and sides of the vehicle. Normal for companies like U-HAUL and Best Buy’s Geek Squad, but I cringe every time I see some local business’s domain pasted to the back of a van’s window with white vinyl letters. Just today I saw one van with the domain www.sellfastthishouse.com, and a truck with the letters www.eastcoastpetsupplies.com glued on the back windows. I hope whoever is selling these people their little white stickers is charging them per letter; then they’re literally paying for how horrible their domain is.

I’ll admit meetjennings.com is not the shortest domain, but it is only two words (and correct English). Generally the rule for domains is the shorter, the better. It’s hard to find a short and meaningful domain name these days, but we’re not at the point where companies are fighting over sets of 4 words.

This post isn’t about domains though; it’s about the fact that writing them on your car is a waste. Do these people think that drivers are going to get out a pen and paper and scribble down their mile long domain name while commuting? Do they think they’ll remember it after the trip to the bank? If you saw geeksquad.com on the side of a car, you would. This is only because most people already know what Geek Squad is, it’s already our their head. Expecting someone to enter www.makenowfastcash.com into their browser after they get home from work is equivalent of shouting out your business name while jogging around the neighborhood and expecting people to drive out to your buisness.

Maybe in the day when we have laptops in the passenger’s seat. Maybe when we can have Scotty beam us home to visit doggiegroomingplacehere.com.

I’ve been recently thinking that it’s more of a status symbol. It says “Hey, I’m part of the interweb, I’m in the loop!” Kind of like how those Bluetooth headsets try to convince everyone else that you’re important (why do they flash blue if the wearer can’t even see the light?). The stickers are comparable to buying a sports jacket with your domain on it. But at least then it might spark up conversation and you’d end up with a business card or a phone number. Theres nothing available to help you remember an epic domain.

Unless you own computers.com, leave the carvertisments to dealerships and rentals.