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For past 20 hours I was away from internet and phone. Felt like something is missing in my life. It took a while to realize that I do not really have a life if I remove internet. Scary. I now plan to spend at least a weekend a month without gadgets.
I did realized how much I can think and create after these distractions are removed. Either I was traumatized due to lack of internet or I can write some good stories.
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d@nish wrote: I now plan to spend at least a weekend a month without gadgets.
Good for you, I've often suggested this to the missus, to no avail. Occasionally I'll go fishing/hiking for a day without a gadget and often feel that a weight has been lifted, it's quite nice.
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I get your plot. Send her out on something so you can submerge yourself in to internet. Intelligent fella.
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It's good to spend some time 'off grid'. Being online really reduces productivity in most aspects of life, although that's not true at work because having access to CP, SO and Google outweighs the time wasted posting on the Lounge and similar places.
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BobJanova wrote: time wasted
Don't get me wrong. I like all of this. All I am saying is that we need to understand and live a balanced life.
Since, I live alone it is difficult and, well, crazy, so I think more about these kind of escapes.
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Good for you. Years ago we got rid of the TV and have never missed it. We spend too much time on idle activities. We could all do better to unplug more often.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's why I started woodworking.
It's aMAZING what happens to your head when it's not being blasted with the noise of the innert00bz.
Go to youtube and look up "Izzy Swan" and his "$50 wood shop" series (and the rest of his stuff.)
He's truly inspiring.
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So...you're suggesting that in order to get away from t'interweb, we should start with a series of visits to YouTube...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It'll accelerate the process, yes.
(And yes, the irony was entirely lost on me until I read this.)
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Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I got a chuckle from that, we have been married over 30 years, I get a phone call from her maybe once a month, she has been travelling for 4 weeks and I have a total of 2 emails from her. Different strokes I guess.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Given the choice between internet addiction and hard drugs, I'd ... consider Mae West's words:
"Given the choice between two evils, I'd take the one I hadn't tried before."
“The best hope is that one of these days the Ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away ~ leaving people with nothing more to stand ON than what they have so bloody well stood FOR up to now.” Kenneth Patchen, Poet
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The cure for keeping my lunch down! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I think you may have found a diet plan that really works!
Will Rogers never met me.
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At last! A use for Piers Morgan!
We always knew he was an emetic, but we didn't think that could be useful... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: emetic
Thanks! I learned a new word!
And, you're right!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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If you had seen Dolly, you would know that Griff has MUCH better taste than that!
(Come to think of it: I think EVERYBODY ought to have better taste than THAT!)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Arr she blows! Man the 'arpoons!
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If that's sfw I wonder where you work.
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That's not Safe For Work, Kid Sister Safe, or Safe For Human Consumption! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Someplace awful clearly.
*hurl*
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SFW? I think not! That is NSFAITEU (Not Safe For Anyone In The Entire Universe)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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