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by Plutonium on April 20th, 2011

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My article is "Living without Technology". Can you give me ideas for the lede of my article.

My article is "Living without Technology". Can you give me ideas for the lede of my article.

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  • by Athrael on April 20th, 2011

    Athrael

    Well there is a bit of irony in the fact that you are using technology to write this paper, or to get ideas.

    I think a good exercise for you is to just shut off the power to your lights, TV, and computer. turn off the phones and then go about your day to day life attempting to do 'stuff' without relying on power.

    When I was a kid we didn't have electricity, didn't have running water, and didn't have a telephone. We used kerosene lamps, utilized a privy and just had to go visit folk to speak to them.

    No Electricity meant no TV, no Radio, and definitely none of the other gadgets people have around their house.

    To have a cup of instant coffee required: Running to the well, dropping the bucket with the rope attached upside down where it would sink so you could haul it up with water in it, pour the bucket you use water that you carry the water into the house. Using a ladle, transfer water to a pot, put the pot on the wood burning stove. Check the fire, poke the fire, add a stick of wood if necessary. If the stove is cooled, with the coals banked, then you need to restart the fire, feeding it kindling, until you get a decent blaze, then add sticks of wood and wait for the whole stove to heat up in order for it to get hot enough to heat the pot or kettle. Wait for the water to boil.

    Put instant coffee into coffee cup and when the water is boiling pour water into the cup.

    Now days you either run water through your tap filtration system by a simple move of a single armature, fill the cup, pop in the microwave for two minutes, add instant coffee and stir.

    No ashes, no sweat, no hoping that there ain't no ice on the surface of the well water (our well was shallow enough that a thin layer of ice could form in wintertime, this required repeated dropping and hauling up the bucket to break through). No hauling on a rope, no carrying a sloshing bucket into the house, no need to check a fire, no need to have to heat the whole house in summer time for a (one) cup of coffee.

    Showering. Ah. In summer time we either used the pond to bathe in, or we use the 55 gallon drum which was up on a platform. Heating the water was done by the sun. Of course you had to haul the water from the well, climb a short ladder, and use the funnel. You figure you are hauling one gallon of water from the well at a time. repeat this 10-15 times if you want a decent shower.

    Tepid showers were common.

    In the winter we hauled in water into the house, heated up several buckets and then you stood behind the curtain and 'sponge bathed'.

    Heating the home with wood. Wood is a marvelous way to heat oneself. you get three decent heating out of it. The heat from chopping down the tree and cutting into 12-16 inch long logs, and then stacking it to cure. Then the heat to chop the logs into burnable sticks, then finally the heat you get from burning the wood in the stove. As a kid I chopped more than my fair share of wood, many cords of wood were personally reduced to fire wood by yours truly.

    It takes three kerosene lamps in order to be able to do your homework. True, you can read from just one kerosene lamp, however study often meant you needed to see what you are writing and the books you are reading from.

    Contrary to popular belief, one doesn't run the wick up high on a kerosene lamp. If the chimney is turning sooty black, either the flame is too high or its high time to trim the wick.

    Using kerosene lamps you need to refill them each day. For a 16' x 16' room to get as much light as one gets from a 100 watt light bulb, you need 5 kerosene lamps. In case you ever need to know.

    Nightly Entertainment: Ma (My step mother) knitted, quilted, and did other similar sort of artsy fartsy type of work. She also crochet, I understand this is different than knitting. My Da (father). Read the news paper, wittled, smoked a pipe, and the adults talked while I, the kid) remained mostly on the floor (as a child) entertaining myself with my few toys. Later as a young man I spent most of my time reading books, or studying.

    We had no other choice but to 'do something' no TV to channel surf, no internet to surf, no computers to play games on.

    This is just the tip of the iceberg. Remove all electricity from your home, keep your running water and gase burning stove and water heater, now try to live your life. no refrigerator, no ice cream, no ice cubes. A 'Cold Drink' is actually cold if the well water is fresh and cool. Or if its winter time and you left water outside.

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  • by Diogo on April 20th, 2011

    Diogo

    You can say how you yourself needed the technology to do your article by coming to the internet asking a bunch of strangers for tips and ideas for a work you should be doing by yourself.

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  • by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on April 20th, 2011

    DA BEN DAN yanggui zi

    lede is a town in Belgium....Do you mean lead?or title? or what?

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  • by sloroller on April 20th, 2011

    sloroller

    Refer to the pre-computer era, when books were the primary source of information...as in dictionaries. What exactly is a "lede"?!

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  • by KDP on April 20th, 2011

    KDP

    Is boring as Hell. And a pain in the ass.
    The end.

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  • by RosieGHM Jetpacker on April 20th, 2011

    RosieGHM Jetpacker

    "How to survive in the 17th century"! Happy Wednesday! :)

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  • by Mister_Bromyde on April 20th, 2011

    Mister_Bromyde

    Smash iPhone. Panic.

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  • by Takei-Shihan on April 20th, 2011

    Takei-Shihan

    ... consider an army recruit being trained in stone age methods of survival skills ...

    make stone knife by carefully banging rocks to chip a sharp edge
    make rope by using stone knife to cut thin strips of bark from a tree
    make traps/snares using bark rope

    ... etc.

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  • by flustered420 on April 20th, 2011

    flustered420

    Write about Amish ppl

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