 Social Networking or Hydration
I've got two ideas I'd love to see.
First, along the same 'diet' lines, I've read versions of how much water a person's supposed to drink based on their bodyweight. According to that, being a larger person, I'm supposed to drink about 13 litres a day. I tried, but could only get up to about 9 at most, for all of a day before I gave it up as not practical for me. Still, I felt better than when I fell below the daily 2L level. How about seeing if you can get up to your 'optimum' level and maintain it?
Second, with all the hype about social networking online these days, and people trying to build networks everywhere, I'd like to see how hard it would be to maintain an expanded network if the connections were actually built to a meaningful, interacting level. If you added someone to your personal network each day, finding out as much as you could about them, and then building that connection from there, at what point would you have to start dropping off quality to maintain quantity, and how much time would each new 'network connection' add to your daily workload. You could ask for volunteers out of your forums who'd understand that it was in the way of an experiment and may fall over short of a meaningful ongoing connection. I'd put my hand up for starters.
Votes for the others: I like the vow of silence too. We have something called Vipassana meditation retreat down here in Australia where you're not allowed to speak, smoke, eat meat etc for the duration - 3 weeks I think. I've heard from friends who've done it that it's quite challenging.
Also, not having a car myself (although I can drive) I'd also find the public transport thing interesting. But from personal experience, you'd probably never get back home in time to post...
Crystal
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