I think people are making the internet crappier so people will stop using the internet. You know, so they don't pay so much attention to alternative news sources so assholes can keep extending the 'public diameter'.
Recently there was a dog found on a piece of ice about 18 miles out into the ocean. As far as the piano? Hopefully someone will be cool enough to keep it in good working order (somehow... stainless steel and lots of waterproofing?) so people will occasionally go out there to play it.
Having to actually perform a function with the knowledge you've studied works the same way; in fact, it stands to reason it might actually be more effective than taking a test.
'Nothing' doesn't exist; that's it's nature, thus, one cannot 'do' nothing. One can sit still and attempt to empty one's mind of thought... but that isn't 'nothing'. In order to be nothing one mustn't have existed in the first place, and since one is here reading this message one therefore has existed and is therefore incapable of being 'nothing'.
I... /love/ being clean. I love the smell of soap and always have. When I was a little kid I'd spend hours luxuriating in a bubble bath, just dreaming my little head off. I spend extra time in the shower /just/ to feel that hot water pour over me, to smell that wonderful soap, and get all those layers of dead skin off me. I absolutely love having clean teeth. The very taste of that sour acid buildup from plaque disgusts me and I can't stand people with bad breath. So there, ya damn scanky old troglodytes.