¶Years of working on stent patents gave me an idea for repairing my Crocs. Teddy recently bit through the strap on my new pair. I thought about gluing it back together, but the internet tells me that cyanoacrylates don’t play well with the foam in Crocs. Then I notice a small piece of fret wire on the workbench from one of Jonathan’s guitar projects, and an image of stent barbs popped into my head. So I cut a few, stabbed the ends of the wire into the cut ends on the strap, and then plied them together, over the wire. The barbs seem to be working — the repair held all day.