Whenever Web Watch wants to try a new restaurant in a new city, we turn to our online resources for hints and tips from the locals — because you should always eat where the locals eat.
Usually, the online reviews we find are relatively accurate. In one place we ate at recently, the review said to avoid the paella. We should have listened – it really wasn’t that good.
It’s that time of year again, when a young co-ed’s thoughts turn to partying down.
Over the years, Web Watch has shared with you PLAYBOY’S PARTY SCHOOLS list, but they typically are released in the Spring, when high school students are making their choices for where to attend school in the Fall.
This year, Playboy has decided to release their list in the Fall — probably to allow high school seniors a full year to consider where they would like to apply to over the coming months (and for incoming college freshmen to reconsider their collegiate choice, for at least one semester).
Web Watch loves karaoke as much as the next person – which is to say that sometimes we really love it, and sometimes we really hate it.
Karaoke is one of those party activities that you can’t plan on being a hit. If you have a karaoke machine in your living room, we guarantee that nobody will want to fire it up and start singing when you say, “hey, who wants to do karaoke with me?”
On the other hand, if your friends know it’s available and are drunk enough – you’ve given them enough rope to lead themselves to hitting the power button and starting the games themselves.
Which leads us to…
Whether you like Quentin Tarantino’s work or not, you should be able to appreciate his contributions to Hollywood are incredible.
From Pulp Fiction to Kill Bill and everything else he’s worked on before and after, Tarantino has influenced the traditional movie-making process and proven that the best film study class can produce an Academy Award winning director.
Of course, Quentin’s “film study class” was “watching every film available at the video rental store”, but who hasn’t binge watched a VHS shelf or Netflix queue before? The difference is that when video stores were omnipresent, the only way to judge a movie was by its packaging. Sometimes you’d win, sometimes you’d find a real clunker. But it really was more hit than miss.
But in today’s Internet world, it’s easier to dismiss films that others say may not be worth watching. Will Netflix users produce the next Tarantino? One’s gut would say “yes”, but the likelihood of Netflix being the sole reason for that person’s success in the same vein that Tarantino had working at the video store is rather slim.
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Web Watch was at a business meeting the other day when the subject of cellphone apps came up as a natural part of the conversation.
It was a simple discussion among serious executives. It was, if you will allow the capital letters, a Very Serious Meeting.
And then someone at the table did the unthinkable. They actually pulled out their cell phone.
Cell Phone Etiquette: Observations from a Mom
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Annoying insects bother people year round. Whether it be creepy crawly insects inside the house that make your skin crawl, or stinging/biting insects that prevent you from enjoying your outdoor space – bugs are just, well, buggy.
But how bugged are we by the bugs around us?
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Web Watch knows a guy who spends his life traveling around the world – not for work, but just for fun. Because he’s young, and he can do it.
Sure, he has a job, but his job didn’t allow him to travel. Didn’t require him to ever leave his office. So he decided to go on the road on his own, taking his office with him.
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With all the recent news about major gender-related crimes and intolerable acts against women in India and other countries, Web Watch thought it would be worthwhile to point out that this is not new news at all.
Women have been fighting against cultural bias for years – decades – longer… and this doesn’t, shouldn’t be the case in this day and age.
A Thousand Sisters:
My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
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