Difference between revisions of "Procrastinating"

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* Downloading a movie, (series, season's worth of programming from the network,    Red vs. Blue, etc.)
 
* Downloading a movie, (series, season's worth of programming from the network,    Red vs. Blue, etc.)
 
* Cleaning your room
 
* Cleaning your room
* Complaining about life to your roommate, JA, or total strangers
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* Complaining about life to your roommate, [[JA]], or total strangers
 
* Going to other people's rooms and distracting them
 
* Going to other people's rooms and distracting them
 
* Getting into pointless arguments at [http://www.ephblog.com Ephblog] or WSO blogs.
 
* 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]].)
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* 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.)
 
* Playing [[WoW]] or similarly addictive computer games
 
* Playing [[WoW]] or similarly addictive computer games
 
* Learning a new [[students with computer skills|programming language]]
 
* Learning a new [[students with computer skills|programming language]]

Revision as of 13:11, May 6, 2006

  • Learning why procrastination is actually good for you at Stanford's study website
  • "Spending time" with significant other. So that's what kids call it nowadays...
  • Drinking beer.
  • Editing this wiki
  • Mindless web surfing
  • Reading blogs, sending gifts etc. on XuQa
  • Looking up high school friends on Facebook
  • Watching Daily Show clips on comedycentral.com
  • Obsessively checking email (thereby slowing down everyone else's email)
  • Continuously refreshing the WSO homepage to see 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
  • Addicting Games
  • Strong Bad Email
  • Something Awful or Slashdot or Fark, the black holes of the internets
  • 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 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 Ephblog or WSO blogs.
  • Reading webcomics (PvP, Penny Arcade, Something Positive, and The Order of the Stick are all great for procrastinating.)
  • Playing WoW or similarly addictive computer games
  • Learning a new 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 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 something pointless
  • Reading aaaaalllll the way to the bottom of this list.
  • Read quizzes, stories, and poems on Quizilla.com. Find out what kind of cocktail you are!!
  • Get the "Stumble" plugin for Firefox to be taken to a random page on the internet based on your interests.