New York Times writer goes off grid, learns about spiders, gravity showers, self.
Twin Cities native David Carr, who once edited the Twin Cities Reader and now writes on media and other subjects for the New York Times, recently went six days without cell-phone, internet or computer when he and his wife, Jill, vacationed on a tiny island in the Caribbean. For Carr, who has been known to work two phones simultaneously while eyeballing a TV monitor, this could be considered a real sacrifice.
Check his flipcam video blog about the experience. It's a hoot.
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