Web Watch has told you about DIRTY HOTEL ROOMS before.
And you all know people who travel with a Ziploc bag in their luggage, specifically to use with the TV remote control, as Web Watch has mentioned that the TV remote in a hotel room is pretty much germ central.
But it ends up that the hotel room TV remote is NOT the dirtiest item in your dirty hotel room.
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What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever done in an elevator?
Web Watch has only been stuck in an elevator twice before, and both times not for very long. The first time, we had to climb out of the elevator on a step ladder that had been lowered in from the upper floor. Made for some rather amusing anecdotes with the upper management we were stuck with, that’s for sure.
But we really weren’t concerned, and the jokes weren’t nearly that funny.
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We all know that the Modern Man doesn’t buy underwear.
At least, the Modern Man doesn’t buy any new underwear. They just stick with the briefs or boxers that their mom last bought for them as they headed off to college, and then proceed to wear them until the waistband separates from the cool cotton comfort.
No elastic? No problem!
There’s a reason why many rock stars on tour have “3-pack of underwear, assorted colors” on their concert rider. It’s easier to have a fresh pair handed to you by a complete stranger rather than ask them to do your traveling laundry while you’re on stage.
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We all know someone who can rattle off any movie quote, from any movie, at any time.
They’re the kind of guy that nobody really wants to hang out with… unless it’s Trivia Night at the local bar, and your normal “movie expert” is nowhere to be seen.
And then, wouldn’t you know it, Movie Quote Guy ends up winning the whole thing for you, which means that you are now obligated to invite them back to join you next week.
Dammit.
Let’s face it – we’ve all played that game of chance when riding our favorite form of public transportation, whether it be a streetcar in San Francisco, a plane flying out of JFK, or a public bus or subway:
“Is that person coming down the aisle going to sit in the empty seat next to me?”
And there are some people who are coming through that you say, “why yes – I’d love for that hottie to sit next to me for the next 4 hours” (Web Watch knows of at least one blooming relationship that was born from such a random airplane encounter).
And then there are others who you hope and pray won’t choose you to be their personal Travel Buddy and Hygiene Police.
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If Web Watch were to mention the name Randy Pausch to you, chances are you wouldn’t know who we were talking about off the top of your head.
But if we were to mention that Randy was the Carnegie-Mellon professor who wrote the book The Last Lecture
We’ll wait.
Just let us know when you’ve gotten back and we’ll continue…
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Surprise: college is NOT like the movie Animal House.
Well, not entirely, anyway.
But there are some things that remain true for every college experience – looking back, it will always be remembered as having been much more fun than it actually was.
And that’s because it’s the fun times that are always remembered the most. You won’t recall the drudgery of studying in the library all night long for some midterm exam. But you will remember that drunken evening trading stories with some hottie while sitting on the roof of a random fraternity house… without any knowledge of how you actually ended up in that situation.
As a parent, you’re obligated to remind your offspring all the practical things to keep in mind about as your prized possession heads off to college and out of the house for the first time.
But maybe, if Web Watch can offer the advice that you wouldn’t ever hear from the parental units, you may have a much better College Experience overall.
After all, has Web Watch ever steered you wrong in the past? (If we have, don’t answer that — just let us believe…!)
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Have you ever considered going into politics?
Sure, there’s some fame and fortune involved, plus the added bonus of actually feeling like you’re giving something back to the community that you represent. This may work best in smaller cities and neighborhoods — being the president of your local Homeowners Association requires a completely different skillset than being the Mayor of your town.
Just like being Mayor requires different skills in some podunk town in the middle of nowhere than it does being Mayor of a major metropolitan city.
Face it – if too many cows on your byways is the biggest problem you have to deal with, then you’re not quite ready to attack the Major Politics of Today.
All that’s not to say that representing a small political arena is for dumb people, and only smart people can manuever around Big City or National politics.
But maybe there are some trends that can identify whether the person representing your best interests is as smart as they can be when compared to their compatriots.
For instance, according to SUNLIGHT LABS analysis of the members of congress and how they use language, they can identify who present themselves at a higher-intelligent level vs those in congress is try to talk to the lowest-common denominator.
Using some analysis of speeches that all Congressional members have made, they’ve been able to determine the grade level that each Congressman typically speak at.
From a trending perspective, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that as more and more years pass, Congressional speech patterns are getting worse and worse. Web Watch calls it the MTV Effect (or, to update for the 21st century – the YouTube Effect). Shorter attention spans and the rise of quick edit TV newscasts has resulted in what is – in effect – representatives that have lost the ability to sound like they’re talking intelligently.
They all may be extremely smart individuals. But they’re certainly not all presenting themselves that way.
Let’s look at the LOWEST RANKING CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS and their level of grade school talk:
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(Just go with the grades higher than 12 to be collegiate level. Web Watch is just reporting what’s in the data, not making judgements on how its interpreted.)
Some of what the analysis shows is:
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