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In the article “ Vanish ” writer Evan Ratliff tries to go off the grid while a group o f jobless, tech-savvy hunters fight to find him, for five thousand dollars.  Really guys? 744 man hours for 5,000 dollars? was the internet down? The challenge was Evan had to stay off the grid for a month, which his editor agreed to for the sake of Evan’s article.             The article itself was stupidly exciting, Highlighting Evan’s addiction to dangers, and close-shaves. Evan spent two months planning his disappearance, but even with all the planning Evan was hardly the meticulously careful evader, often ta king big risks that if I was hiding I would not. Then again if I was writing the article it would be about how I spent a month in basements all over the country fighting hobos for survival and respect, so essentially it would be better. Basically the plot of Condemned 2, without that Hadouken stupidity...

Yesterday LAS Highschool had a speech competition, I was one of the three selected to present their speech. So logically I drove four hours to Islamabad to avoid it. I found out that a close friend of mine won, which only reiterates the fact that i had a genuine shot at winning. the cherry on top of this sad realization is that not only did I forfeit my chance at winning, by leaving I missed out on extra credit. Because why take a class if you miss the extra credit?                 My written speech wasn’t bad, it was interesting, and it kept me awake. I even picked my topic by gauging which topic was funnier, in the end it was a coin toss between “How to install undetectable cameras in children’s’ locker room”, and “Why my toast always falls Jam first”. "'Cos if it ain't just Golden-Brown, it be going down" I might not be a comedian, a writer, or even a self-sufficient person, but I p...