This is something that I have to try out. This new site called whogets.com offers members the chance to win prizes, some of them worth as much as $600, and all you have to do is write 100 words or less telling the other members why you should be the one who gets it.

There is a preliminary round before that happens. Seven people are chosen from all the applicants before the voting round starts. That’s interesting. I took a couple of statistics courses in college and there is a rule of thumb about only putting seven items on a graph. It’s like the optimal number of things for people to differentiate between for some neurologically hard-wired reason. People on the internet break this rule all the time. I think I might make a draft of my 100 words explaining why I desperately need item X so I can be ahead of everyone else…