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Difference between revisions of "Procrastinating"
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* Mindless web surfing | * Mindless web surfing | ||
* Reading blogs, sending gifts etc. on [http://www.XuQa.com XuQa] | * Reading blogs, sending gifts etc. on [http://www.XuQa.com XuQa] | ||
| − | * Looking up high school friends on Facebook | + | * Looking up high school friends on [http://www.facebook.com Facebook] |
| − | * Watching Daily Show clips on comedycentral.com | + | * Watching Daily Show clips on [http://www.comedycentral.com comedycentral.com] |
| − | * Obsessively checking email | + | * Obsessively checking email (thereby slowing down everyone else's email) |
| − | * Continuously refreshing the WSO homepage to see shared photos | + | * Continuously refreshing the [[WSO]] homepage to see [http://wso.williams.edu/PhotoShare shared photos] |
| − | * Reading emails sent to the WARP listserver | + | * 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?" | * 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 | + | * Reading [[WSO]] blogs |
| − | * Snack Bar! | + | * [[Snack Bar]]! |
* Writing WSO blogs | * Writing WSO blogs | ||
* Talking on IM | * Talking on IM | ||
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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; also, check out this [[List of Webcomics]].) | * 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 | * Playing WoW or similarly addictive computer games | ||
| − | * Learning a new programming language | + | * Learning a new [[Students with Computer Skills|programming language]] |
* Finding and downloading programs for your computer | * Finding and downloading programs for your computer | ||
* Writing a script to control your favorite IM program from the command line | * Writing a script to control your favorite IM program from the command line | ||
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* Making a big pile of leaves and jumping in it | * 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. | * Completing little tasks for the [http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome Amazon Mechanical Turk], and getting paid $0.03 each. | ||
| − | * Dancing around your room | + | * [[Dancing]] around your room |
* Playing [[Snow Bocce]] | * Playing [[Snow Bocce]] | ||
| − | * Using this Wiki to play "My Dad" | + | * 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. | * Reading aaaaalllll the way to the bottom of this list. | ||
Revision as of 17:26, March 8, 2006
- Learning why procrastination is actually good for you at [1]
- "Spending time" with significant other. So that's what kids call it nowadays...
- Drinking beers.
- 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; also, check out this List of Webcomics.)
- 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.
