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As ironic as it may be I am in a similar boat, I'm an intern at a tech company this summer and in order to live off of my intern salary decided not to sign up for Internet service. Now it's 1:15 in the morning and I'm posting on slashdot from a smartphone.... But that's besides the point here is what I have learned. 1: Banking/bills are much easier to pay online. Like most 22 year olds I've never really had a need for a check book or mailing in bills and wondering if it got there. I ordered checks but by the time I got them I needed to pay bills it's just much easier to pay online than on paper for these sorts of things. Same with checking bank balances and such 2: people assume email exists and you can handle any gigantic file with your 2gb data plan on an AT&T 3G network, I have learned to just accept my mailbox will become bloated, back it up to my computer and sort through things that way 3:news is way better online than on tv, I cant stand any of the tv news I get, you may want to have some rss setup feed into your intranet for the really important stuff, maybe wifi tether from smartphone? (This kinda breaks the I don't want Internet rule) 4: books and magazines are great! I got a library card and have read a lot of great books, learned some cool things and even discovered some great magazines I will probably subscribe to after my internship. I hope this helps, your no Internet is more by choice than mine but I have found that a lot of time and experiences are waisted while browsing the Internet while on the other hand you miss some of the great collaborative communities and freedom of information. Hopefully you find a way to manage this and enjoy life unconnected I have also learned that slashdot does not accept the carrage return on an iPhone so my nicely formatted post turns into an awful rambling mess

I'm probably pushing it... 42 inch LCD TV, 500 Watt (I don't know if that is RMS or Peak) surround sound reciever, 100Watt peak powered sub, Cable Box, Modem, Router, XBox 360, AppleTV, lamp and occasionally an ipod or cell phone charger.... 2 power strips one outlet, other lamps in the room on same circuit Our HVAC really sucks but the residual heat from all the electronics helps quite a bit ;)

The only physicists I've ever seen in lab coats were in angles and demons. Real physicists wear suspenders!

Did I miss the windows vista funeral? How about Windows ME when was that? I had a great obituary prepared

Exactly, in high school I had an engineering physics class, it was two periods long. Each day we had one lecture followed by one lab, we also had 4 group projects during the year. We had a bridge competition, mousetrap race cars, a safety design project and a full size "survivor style" cardboard, duck tape, and trash bag boat race in the schools swimming pool. This class was one of my favorites, and now im a sophomore studying mechanical engineering. If it wasn't for that class I probably wouldn't have been nearly as excited about science.

I also started with a mac. My dad gave me an old mac clasic and it was perfect I played brickles, space invaders, lode runner, lemmings, and power pete. Plus as I got older I learned a thing or two about computers. I still have that clasic and love all those old games