Fake nails plus gloves equals fake nail gloves

I had never considered this properly before. Maybe you have. What does one do if the weather is frightfully cold, bone cold, and one has applied long fingernails? Why, I'll tell you! Slice holes in the fingertips of beloved gloves!

Click illustration for mo' satisfaction.

I learned this on a city bus, in the early sleepy morning on my way to PDX. I witnessed another passenger prodding her smartphone, with her red fingernails, through black knit gloves. It took me a moment to understand how this worked. Is this glove modification a common practice? Has anyone encountered this before? 

I enjoy the title of this post, made of 4, 5, and 6 letter words. I enjoy making things difficult. For you.

Atmosphere, Eugene

Eugene, Oregon. November 2009

I had completely forgotten just how much I love flying. Hanging high above the earth gives us land-based bipeds such a novel perspective on the world (I now appreciate New Mexico at least one and a half times the previous Appreciation Value). David Abram spoke the other night about the omnidirectional capabilities and struggles of birds in flight; great, really great. I feel like slack-lining is a flirtation with a non-two-dimensional travel space.

In Which My Cellphone Redraws A New Physical Reality (above),
and a new view of the Sandias (below). November 2009