I don't plan on going back to Facebook, but I still have my Instagram account, which I check once a day.
Simon Rich, a humor writer, took up this concept in an essay he wrote called, "The only e-mails I could receive that could justify the frequency with which I check my e-mail," in his book "Free-Range Chickens" (Random House, 2008).
For me, and I am admittedly a rather atypical Facebook user (not to mention well north of the teen demographic), this long-in-the-tooth social network has felt like a very middle of the road service for years — a place where I almost never post anything, and which I check only occasionally to see friends' wedding/new baby photos.
One attendee tells me about the Oscar de la Renta exhibit, which I check out the next day.
"The editors asked me what details of her story I had been able to check and I told them I had been given the names of police officers, which I had checked, and she had quoted from diary entries, and other materials," Sheehan told the Australian.
The stories, which I later checked with experts on the region, seemed at least worth the attention of America and other countries in the West.
You could go German, with Nurnburger Bierhaus or Schaffer's Tavern, neither of which I've checked out but both of which sound worth a look, or Kilmeyer's Old Bavaria Inn, which has been around for 150 years or more.
I'm pumped that they've got some awesome indie titles in there, like And Yet It Moves and Larva Mortus, both of which I have checked out before but probably wouldn't buy unless it was this easy.
I got my annual physical last week, and my doctor gladly told me that all my vitals and hormone levels (which I get checked regularly) are at the level of a 28 year old.
Besides, most of the state polls are from places like Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida, which — last I checked — are pretty important to the nomination process.
Yet one measure of the popularity of the term is the very active nerdfighter tag on Tumblr, which, when I checked it yesterday, contained, among other entries, a comparison of Green to a modern-day Dante, leading his followers through the circles of Hell.
