How long could you live without the Internet?
A few months ago, that’s exactly what Paul Miller decided to do with his life.
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Web Watch is certain we’ve written aboutHOW TO MAKE THE ULTIMATE ROADTRIP MIXTAPEpreviously, but needless to say, if it’s our archive of thousands of links we’ve covered over the years, that posting is sadly lost. (If it ever turns up, we’ll be sure to link it from here – you know, just for closure.)
Besides, if true, it wouldn’t be the first time we’ve written about a particular website more than once in the annals of Web Watch history.
As Web Watch has previously pointed out, knowing how to write – and to write well – is a skillset that everybody should take the time to improve upon.
English class in college or high school may not have been interesting, but in hindsight, it was probably one of the few classes where you should have paid a bit more attention than you had.
Being able to write intelligently, in a way that others find interesting, on any number of topics – is not easy. Web Watch has always been told that one should write like one talks. Try not to write above your normal speech pattern, or the resulting text will just sound stilted and unnatural.
Hemingway — again, as Web Watch has said — had it right. Don’t use six words when five words will do. Summarize. Rewrite. Condense. Your readers will thank you for this.
Web Watch knows it’s hot out there.
You’re hot. We’re hot. It’s walking on the sun, hot.
So what better way to cool off than to start planning your Christmas holiday light display?
Do you – or someone you know – suffer from SYNESTHESIA?
That’s the neurological condition where someone experiences one sense at the same time (or in place of) experiencing it in the traditional way.
One of Web Watch’s friends has this condition, and when they hear specific words, they also end up visualizing that word in front of them at the same time. Some people see colors by smell, or can hear what tree bark sounds like by touching it.
Look, we know that the above isn’t the best explanation about what’s going on in some people’s heads, but the point is that some people just are better at visualizing things in a manner that the rest of us could just never understand.
Web Watch knows that not everyone has a standard “desk” job in an office.
You know – the one where you may be sitting in a cubical farm or an actual office (with a door), where you and your co-workers all get together to generate some sort of product for your company.
Some office managers frown upon personalizing one’s workspace, while companies like Pixar go out of their way to encourage as much creativity as possible (one Pixar employee build a speakeasy in the back of his cubicle area, complete with secret hidden entrance!).
Maybe Angelina and Brad have it right — just don’t get married (or, at the very least, tell the kids that you’re going to get married… even if it’s “eventually”).
Couples that we thought were in it for the long haul — Johnny Depp, for example — can even surprise us by separating.
Over the years, Web Watch has seen any number of our friends get married, get divorced, and get married again. For some, it’s turned into a comedy of errors as to how long their current marriage is going to last – whether it will be shorter or longer than the last one.
It happens.
Marriage isn’t for everyone.
How many of you can say that you’re friends with a mortician?
Every circle of friends has a car guy, a computer guy, a music guy, a sports guy. Why not a death guy?
Besides, you almost need one of those around just to answer all the creepy questions that everyone inevitably has. When was the last time that you spoke to a funeral director when death wasn’t on the line?