Difference between revisions of "Procrastinating"

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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.
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* Dancing around your room
 
* Reading aaaaalllll the way to the bottom of this list.
 
* Reading aaaaalllll the way to the bottom of this list.

Revision as of 16:46, December 1, 2005

  • "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
  • 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
  • Reading aaaaalllll the way to the bottom of this list.