Awinds

@Awinds (2468)

United States • Age 31

Joined myLot 13 years ago

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What would you do if your neighbor's house went up in flames?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 26 Nov 11

Well tonight, around 10:00 pm, my neighbor's - who lives just a house away from me - home went up into flames. We are not talking about a small cook stove fire - we are talking about a whole house that went up in flame. There was...

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How would you get over an obsession that was consuming your life?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 1 Nov 11

The problem: I found a new field of study called futurism. Some of the predictions are scary while others amazing. I found myself obsessed. Obsessed to the point where other areas of my life have been neglected in favor of...

addiction

life

obsession

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Will Siri put some websites out of business?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 1 Nov 11

For those who don't know, Apple's 4S iPhone comes with a new feature: Siri. It is basically intelligent voice recognition software that allows one to use his voice for certain tasks on the phone. However there is one aspect with a...

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Typing or voice recognition - which do you prefer?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 1 Nov 11

Apple's Siri has brought renewed interest in voice recognition software. Voice recognition involves talking to one's computer to control it or to do word processing. The keyboard is bypassed altogether. Siri has some of the...

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Would you get a brain implant?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 21 Oct 11

Sometimes for fun I like to read forecasts of the future. It is interesting to see what other people think will happen in the next ten, twenty or fifty years. However there is one thing that is always a common theme on these...

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Passive or interactive - what kind of novel do you prefer?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 16 Oct 11

Your typical novel is by one or two authors. It will be words on a print or virtual page. The words make a story. The plot is set in stone and the reader has no influence over its development. The reader just...reads. This is the...

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Would you be happy in a society without jobs?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 13 Oct 11

As automation and AI move forward, some futurists predict the extinction of work. All jobs would be done by machines which would leave people free to do as they wished. Many people might classify such a time and place as a...

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People have nothing to hide? Is privacy important?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 25 Sep 11

Often in conversations about privacy, surveillance, and tracking etc. people will say they don't mind because they have nothing to hide. They don't mind being observed because they state they are within the law and are not ashamed...

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What kind of device do you do your myLotting on?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 20 Sep 11

Smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops...there are so many ways to do our computing today! Some devices make myLot a breeze and others can hinder the myLot experience. What device (or gadget) is your favorite one for doing...

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Is myLot a forum or a social networking site?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 13 Sep 11

Would you describe myLot as a forum or as a social networking website? In a forum, one simply posts on threads, which is what we do on myLot only with a little bit more sophistication. This is the core of myLot. However, there are...

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How do you deal with uncertainty in your in life?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 12 Sep 11

Uncertainty, the feeling of not knowing or of being in the dark, is unavoidable as long as one is alive. We have all been through periods where we are uncertain about something. Periods of uncertainty always follow after some kind...

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Grusome things are uncomfortable. Yet we have trouble looking away. Why?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 8 Sep 11

Most of us cringe when we think about the atrocities of humanity. Talking about it in detail or seeing the most gruesome of the gruesome can make a lot of people squirm (or worse). Some even cry. Yet horror/thriller movies and...

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People without Facebook accounts - are they creepy or even dangerous?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 6 Sep 11

So I found this article about a Colton Tooley who was a school shooter at the University of Texas last year (www.ketknbc.com/news/acquaintances-at-a-loss-over-motive-of-ut-gunman). However there was one quote in the article that I...

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Character names. Hard or easy for you to come up with?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 5 Sep 11

A name is of the most important facets of a character. A name is an indicator and can carry much meaning and impact. For some writers (like me) coming up with and deciding on names for characters is a laborious process. You want...

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The United States of Europe. What do you think?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 4 Sep 11

According to Yahoo News, Germany and France want the EU member countries to give up their national sovereignty and submit to a continent wide government - a federation not unlike the United States of America. This would make...

united states of europe

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Store names that repel buyers? Names that just don't fit the store?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 31 Aug 11

So I just saw an add on myLot for a jewelry store called Ugly Otter. The jewelry doesn't look to bad but the name gets to me. How is putting "ugly" in a jewelry store's name a good idea? That doesn't sound look a good sign to a...

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Can love exist without hate?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 29 Aug 11

Can the concept of love as we know it exist without its polar opposite hate? If there was no hate could we really define love? Without the opposite emotion, is it possible to have a true understanding of love? If hate did not...

hate existance

love

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Character descriptions: is less more?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 27 Aug 11

I keep seeing contradictory advise all over the web on this. Some say that to much description of a character's looks, traits and clothes drags down the story and is the sign of an amateur writer. The people who take up this...

character descriptions

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How do you feel about in-text advertising?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 27 Aug 11

Have you ever been reading content online when you notice a word is a link but it is underlined twice? Have you ever hovered over that word only to find that an ad pops up? That is in-text advertising. What do you think of...

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Are there any traffic exchanges that pay?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 27 Aug 11

I would like to promote my blog and make a few cents on the side. I know there is not going to be any traffic exchanges out there that pay $1 or so for every ten sites surfed (only a novice would expect such a rate) however I...

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