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* Learning why procrastination is actually good for you at [http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~john/procrastination.html 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 [http://www.XuQa.com XuQa]* Looking up high school friends on [http://www.facebook.com Facebook]* 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 [http://library.williams.edu/guides/videos.php a movie from Sawyer] and watching it on your computer (may I recommend [http://francis.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.)* 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.* 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.* One word: Reddit. On one hand, your paper never really quite got finished. On the other hand, you now know all about the current problems plaguing MicronesiaTo complete later.
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