Austin's VOX

A recent study suggests that radiation from cell phones may cause cancer; what, if any, cell phone usage precautions will you take in light of this information?
Submitted by Tim.

I haven't had a phone call over 3 minutes in years.  Potentially never on a mobile phone.  Its all text messages and quick "hey I'll see you in 5 minutes" type phone calls for me.  Even so, I probably will get some type of hands free.  Probably just a normal wire thing because I don't do the bluetooth cockroaches.  They seem to be for people who think they are more important than they really are.

• Level 1 - 12 - I did 12
  
• Level 2 - 12 - I did 12
  
• Level 3 - 9 - I did 9
  
• Level 4 - 7 - I did 7
  
• Level 5 - Max (at least 10) - I did 10
  

Show us the last thing you bought.

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I just bought this pen.  The Lamy Safari.  I love fountain pens and have had one of these for quite some time, but it got destroyed by accident.  So this order was the replacement.

Show us the book you're reading right now.
Submitted by Strive2Be.

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

A. J. Jacobs

• Level 1 - 15 - I did 15
• Level 2 - 15 - I did 15
• Level 3 - 12 - I did 12
• Level 4 - 12 - I did 12
• Level 5 - Max out (15) - I did 15
  

• Level 1 - 16 - I did 16 16
  
• Level 2 - 13 - I did 13 13
  
• Level 3 - 11 - I did 11 11
  
• Level 4 - 11 - I did 11 11
  
• Level 5 - Max (at least 15) - I did 11 16
  

Today was the first time that I've not been able to do the max on Level 5.  I was feeling a bit under the weather but didn't want to miss a day.  I physically just could not do more than 11 on that last Level.

Edit... the numbers in this color are from a "do over".  We decided to repeat week 2 starting with day 2 yesterday.  We just never got back around to the last part of Week 2 because of some craziness.  I figure I'd be repeating some weeks down the line anyways... might as well start early :)

• Level 1 - 15
• Level 2 - 13
• Level 3 - 10
• Level 4 - 10
• Level 5 - Max out (at least 15)

Today just seemed harder than the last two.  I intended to do day 3 on Friday (following Mon, Wed, Fri schedule) but went for a late jog last night and by the time we got home I was done.

What is a childhood memory that still haunts you?

An uncle brought some chickens over for my grandmother to cook.  I can still remember her talking about how they had to ring chicken necks when they were kids.  So out goes granny to kill a chicken.

Obviously being a long time since she'd performed this task, it just wouldn't work for her.  So the uncle pops out with an ax, slaps the chicken up on a stump and chops its head off.  This would have probably been traumatic enough, but then I had the unfortunate experience of seeing the headless chicken run around for a bit.  Then I notice that our dog had the chickens head in its mouth.  

I don't think I ate chicken for a while.

Also I've very thankful that this seems to be the most haunting memory I have of my childhood.

• Level 1 - 12 - I did 12
• Level 2 - 12 - I did 12
• Level 3 - 10 - I did 10
• Level 4 - 10 - I did 10
• Level 5 - Max out (at least 10) - I did 16

• Level 1 - 10 - I did 10
• Level 2 - 10 - I did 10
• Level 3 - 8 - I did 8
• Level 4 - 6 - I did 6
• Level 5 - Max out (at least 7) - I did 14