Calculate Your Way to Survival

Seems to me like we are inundated daily with all kinds of shows about survival. Survive with a buddy, survive by yourself, survive the desert, survive the jungle, survive anything. If it has to do with survival, there is a show about it. One thing I have taken from these shows is the immediate and very real need for cordage in emergency situations. Enter the para-cord bracelet. It is a bracelet that is made from roughly eight feet of 550 mil spec parachute cord. The cool thing about the bracelet is that it can be worn everyday, and if needed, can be unraveled easily so that the cord can be utilized for any number of things. You can even separate the inner stranding within the cord to create even more smaller cordage. Cool right? Well, I thought so. So imagine my child-like excitement when I saw para-cord, buckles, and instructions on how to make para-cord bracelets at the store. IMPULSE BUY, MOFOS! I rushed home and tackled this project while enjoying some Full House. Once I had completed my own handmade piece of survival gear, I looked online to see what other people were up to with their para-cord. That's when an Instructables article about para-cord watchbands caught my eye. Me likey. Double utility is always a good thing. A watch and some emergency cordage, could it get any better? With my brain power at the wheelhouse, you know it can. Introducing the para-cord calculator watch!

Oh, yeah. I'm gonna calculate my way to survival with this thing. As far as I know, this is the very first para-corded calculator watch. Numerous spirited Google searches for similar products turned up nothing. Most people are para-cording Swiss Army watches or Casio G-Shocks with barometers and thermometers and altimeters, all forms of utilitarian watches, but no one had the foresight to para-cord a calculator watch. Do you expect me to draw out long division in the sand with a stick under great duress? I don't think so. When roving bands of mad-men put a wooden shank to your throat and demand that you calculate the height of a tree using basic trigonometry, you better be prepared. I know I will be. Then when I'm done calculating, I strike while they are in awe of my post apocalyptic mathematical prowess by unraveling my watch band and choking them all to death with mil spec para-cord. Jackie Chan style. Byaaaah! This is the best idea I have had since Bug-Out Fanny-Packs (tm). "Don't let your back-pack make you a target, conceal your goods in a conveniently located Bug-Out Fanny-Pack!". I'm still fleshing that idea out. 

Lookin' good in the 'hood. calc watch+para cord=WIN

All credit for the original idea and instructions go to Stormdrane over at Instructables. Here is the article I used to learn how to make a paracord watchband.