Simply D.L.

Man V. [virtually no] Internet

When my roommate first told me about Man V. Food, I was disgusted at the idea that someone travels across the country and enters these food challenges like attempting to finish a 72 ounce steak or three overstuffed sandwiches. But in each show, he visits a city and introduces three must-eats with the last one in which he enters a food challenge. So it’s like a nice tour of the popular eateries and a guilty pleasure to see if he could finish a gigantic burger in less than an hour.

I thought maybe I could do something a little more daring.

Man V. Internet.

So okay, given that I need to access posted school material and other crucial matters (e.g. reading webcomics and posting on this blog), to use no Internet at all is a bit extreme at this point. The least I can do is limit myself to a certain time period.

By my calculations, let’s just say that I use the Internet an hour a day, which would be 366 hours. Of course, I did use a lot more than an hour a day, which would probably hit the 1,000 hours mark.

Maybe, just maybe, I could try limiting myself an hour a month. That would be 12 hours of Internet a year. Now even that’s ambitious. And a huge cut-down from 1,000. That would still allow me enough time to run my “Internet errands.”

Or I could boil it down to one month, not using the Internet for 30 days. I’m sure I’ll be fine as long my professors do not post something important that would require me to log on.

But what would I do without my instant viewing feature on Netflix?