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* Learning why procrastination is actually good for you at [http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~john/procrastination.html]
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* "Spending time" with significant other.  So ''that's'' what kids call it nowadays...
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* Drinking beers.
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* Editing this wiki
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== Related Links ==
* Mindless web surfing
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*[http://www.reddit.com Reddit]
* Reading blogs, sending gifts etc. on [http://www.XuQa.com XuQa]
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*[http://www.tvtropes.org TV Tropes]
* Looking up high school friends on [http://www.facebook.com Facebook]
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*[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2CA4C268E54CF35E MLP Season 1] / [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0DDB21BF8A4FF097 Season 2]
* Watching Daily Show clips on [http://www.comedycentral.com comedycentral.com]
 
* Obsessively checking email (thereby slowing down everyone else's email)
 
* Continuously refreshing the [[WSO]] homepage to see [http://wso.williams.edu/PhotoShare shared photos]
 
* Reading emails sent to the [[WARP]] [[listserver]]
 
* Writing emails to the WARP listserver on important topics such as: "If Yoda, Gandalf, Superman, and Voldemort had a four-way death match onboard the spaceship ''Serenity'', who would win?"
 
* Reading [[WSO]] blogs
 
* [[Snack Bar]]!
 
* Writing WSO blogs
 
* Talking on IM
 
* Text messaging really, really long messages
 
* [http://www.addictinggames.com Addicting Games]
 
* [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html Strong Bad Email]
 
* [http://www.somethingawful.com Something Awful] or [http://www.slashdot.org Slashdot] or [http://www.fark.com Fark], the black holes of the internets
 
* [http://www.googlism.com Googlism]
 
* Playing with Photoshop
 
* Getting a livejournal
 
* Checking your livejournal friends list
 
* Editing your livejournal format
 
* Making livejournal icons
 
* Reading a magazine
 
* Renting a movie from Sawyer and watching it on your computer (may I recommend [http://library.williams.edu/search/cPN1997.2+.S437+2004/cpn+1997.2+s437+2004/-2%2C-1%2C0%2CE/frameset&FF=cpn+1997.2+s437+2004&1%2C1%2C Secret of the Sock Monkey]?)
 
* Downloading a movie, (series, season's worth of programming from the network,    Red vs. Blue, etc.)
 
* Cleaning your room
 
* Complaining about life to your roommate, JA, or total strangers
 
* Going to other people's rooms and distracting them
 
* Getting into pointless arguments at [http://www.ephblog.com Ephblog] or WSO blogs.
 
* Reading webcomics ([http://www.pvponline.com/ PvP], [http://www.penny-arcade.com/ Penny Arcade], [http://www.somethingpositive.net/ Something Positive], and [http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript The Order of the Stick] are all great for procrastinating; also, check out this [[List of Webcomics]].)
 
* Playing WoW or similarly addictive computer games
 
* Learning a new [[Students with Computer Skills|programming language]]
 
* Finding and downloading programs for your computer
 
* Writing a script to control your favorite IM program from the command line
 
* Posting to the CS dept. sign.
 
* Ride the CS dept. scooters all the way from the physics building to the math library.
 
* Lathering, rinsing and repeating...several times
 
* Making a big pile of leaves and jumping in it
 
* Completing little tasks for the [http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome Amazon Mechanical Turk], and getting paid $0.03 each.
 
* [[Dancing]] around your room
 
* Playing [[Snow Bocce]]
 
* Using this Wiki to play "[[My Dad]]"
 
* Contributing to [http://wso.williams.edu/discuss/comments.php?DiscussionID=81 something pointless]
 
* Reading aaaaalllll the way to the bottom of this list.
 

Latest revision as of 01:53, December 29, 2011

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