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Nodnarb · Oct 11, 2007, 03:22 PM

Ok, so I have to stay home all day waiting on a delivery. I have finished all my school work. No cleaning or anything really needs to be done. Not in the mood for videogames or something. I've already read a quarter of a novel today so far and dont feel like reading either at the moment. Can't find anything interesting to do on the web. Daytime TV sucks. I guess I'm just especially apathetic right now since I'm trapped here pretty much all day by myself.

What do you guys do when you're bored? (besides MacNN!)

BadKosh · Oct 11, 2007, 03:32 PM

Cook!

kuchiki · Oct 11, 2007, 03:34 PM

well...i play sudoku

I have found a widget that's free and am practically addicted to it.

kuchiki

brassplayersrock² · Oct 11, 2007, 03:42 PM

i play my horn, piano, viola. sometimes i read or go for a walk

Laminar · Oct 11, 2007, 03:44 PM

It's been quite a while since I've had the luxury of being bored. I try and have little projects to work on. Like right now I'm building a Keytar. But I only get to do that during study breaks.

mdc · Oct 11, 2007, 03:46 PM

Read a book
Play video games
Watch TV (one plus to getting everything from iTunes is that you don't have to watch daytime TV)
Sit on the internet

ort888 · Oct 11, 2007, 03:49 PM

Try and expand your sexual horizons by masterbating to something odd.

Like a picture of Eric Estrada or a muffler.

turtle777 · Oct 11, 2007, 04:15 PM

Watch grass grow.

-t

Powerbook · Oct 11, 2007, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

It's been quite a while since I've had the luxury of being bored. I try and have little projects to work on. Like right now I'm building a Keytar. But I only get to do that during study breaks.

I know what you mean, with 80 hours work/week. There are moments that I'm not "coming up with last-minute desperate solutions to impossible problems created by other f*cking people." But being bored? Haven't been for months, if not longer.

PB.

osiris · Oct 11, 2007, 04:24 PM

I haven't had the time to be bored in a while, but if my memory serves me correctly, it was something along the lines of ort888's insightful wisdomal offering.

(But without Eric Estrada, a muffler, and Uranus. Instead, a couple of barely legal young ladies, a shoehorn, and 10 pounds of al dente fettucine...)

No, not really.... I guess I read when I'm bored, or write, in this case.

Oisín · Oct 11, 2007, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

i play my horn

I’ll bet you do.

[/puerile snicker]

shifuimam · Oct 11, 2007, 04:36 PM

Play Euchre or Gin on Yahoo! Games.

Go on a walk and meet someone new.

Troll people on the MacNN Lounge.

Chuckit · Oct 11, 2007, 04:44 PM

Just experiment with different hobbies — preferably ones where you can feel productive rather than like you're just passing time. Find ones you actually feel passionate about and you'll never be bored.

Nodnarb · Oct 11, 2007, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Just experiment with different hobbies — preferably ones where you can feel productive rather than like you're just passing time. Find ones you actually feel passionate about and you'll never be bored.

Any suggestions?

iREZ · Oct 11, 2007, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Watch grass grow.

-t

did you mean "Watch Nascar"?

turtle777 · Oct 11, 2007, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by iREZ

did you mean "Watch Nascar"?

Grass grows faster.

-t

starman · Oct 11, 2007, 05:55 PM

Draw
Halo 3 (or whatever videogame is current)
uh, draw
write a shell script or Applescript
draw
clean
NN

iREZ · Oct 11, 2007, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Grass grows faster.

-t

touché

Mastrap · Oct 11, 2007, 06:38 PM

Meditate

wallinbl · Oct 11, 2007, 06:53 PM

Are you saying that you have free time? Not sure what that is, so I guess I can't help.

abbaZaba · Oct 11, 2007, 07:00 PM

drink

Nodnarb · Oct 11, 2007, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by starman

Draw
Halo 3 (or whatever videogame is current)
uh, draw
write a shell script or Applescript
draw
clean
NN

I only wish I could draw. My handwriting is so atrocious, and I don't even know where to begin at drawing.

Originally Posted by wallinbl

Are you saying that you have free time? Not sure what that is, so I guess I can't help.

No offense, but browsing and posting on MacNN a couple thousand times qualifies as free time to me.

I don't have a great deal of free time either, but between work/school/social obligations, there is still time here and there where I sometimes just can't figure out what to do. I feel like I've wasted a day if all I've done is either watch tv/play video games/ read/ web browsing.

wallinbl · Oct 11, 2007, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by Nodnarb

No offense, but browsing and posting on MacNN a couple thousand times qualifies as free time to me.

It's taken me 6 years to do that. I do most of it while I'm at work, waiting on code to compile.

Nodnarb · Oct 11, 2007, 07:55 PM

I wasn't picking on you. Just saying, people who claim to have "no free time!!!" are usually full of BS...I mean, once again no offense, but are you at work right now waiting on code to compile? If so, then I'm a jackass, but otherwise it means that you are not completely busy at the moment, or at least not busy enough not to "know what free time is."

Snow-i · Oct 11, 2007, 08:30 PM

Masturbate.

Then, 20 minutes later...do it again.

irunat2am · Oct 11, 2007, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by ort888

Try and expand your sexual horizons by masterbating to something odd.

Like a picture of Eric Estrada or a muffler.

What about Eric Estrada installing a muffler?

Ghoser777 · Oct 11, 2007, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by Snow-i

Masturbate.

Then, 20 minutes later...do it again.

He said besides MacNN related stuff.

JoshuaZ · Oct 11, 2007, 11:06 PM

Things I do:

Make silly webpages.
Save mantids from being squashed on the road.
Read a book.
Catch up on my US tv shows.
Go to the gym for a swim.
Play my DS.
Read some newspapers.

SpaceMonkey · Oct 11, 2007, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by Nodnarb

I only wish I could draw. My handwriting is so atrocious, and I don't even know where to begin at drawing.

Drawing is just a lazy form of writing, so you should be fine.

- - e r i k - - · Oct 11, 2007, 11:27 PM

Play Scrabulous online for free - at Scrabulous (now also on facebook)

Mac User #001 · Oct 12, 2007, 09:50 PM

Play Warhammer 40000!!

Oh. But wait. None of you play that here.

brassplayersrock² · Oct 13, 2007, 02:53 AM

Originally Posted by Snow-i

Masturbate.

Then, 20 minutes later...do it again.

oh, and i also listen to the beatles

Kenneth · Oct 13, 2007, 03:13 AM

YouTubing...
Listening/watching Podcasts

Cipher13 · Oct 13, 2007, 05:01 AM

Depends on how lethargic I feel.

Play SupCom, or EVE Online. Listen to music, read a book. Go to the gym/beach/hiking.

analogika · Oct 13, 2007, 06:27 AM

Originally Posted by JoshuaZ

Save mantiEs from being squashed on the road.

Oh. Misread that the first time.

analogika · Oct 13, 2007, 06:29 AM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

i play my viola.

You play viola?

You know the difference between a trampoline and a viola, right?

Kevin · Oct 13, 2007, 07:43 AM

• Playing guitar.

• composing orchestration music (My new hobby and addiction.. I got an idea to get a eventide harmonizer and.. well nevermind..

)

• Paint

• Rubbing Crisco on my elbows while watching old Transformer re-runs while furiously masturbating.

Peter · Oct 13, 2007, 07:50 AM

Read
Listen to music
Talk on internet
Drink

Kevin · Oct 13, 2007, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by Peter

Read
Listen to music
Talk on internet
Drink
Dream of pink unicorns

You forgot one.

analogika · Oct 13, 2007, 08:06 AM

I thought it was horsies?

turtle777 · Oct 13, 2007, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by analogika

Oh. Misread that the first time.

-t

starman · Oct 13, 2007, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin

You forgot one.

You mean "post pics of hot babes"?

Sealobo · Oct 13, 2007, 03:30 PM

i have never been bored.

zro · Oct 13, 2007, 03:51 PM

Grab a screwdriver, take something apart and put it back together.

brassplayersrock² · Oct 13, 2007, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by analogika

You play viola?

You know the difference between a trampoline and a viola, right?

i attempt to play the viola.

no, i don't know the difference, please enlighten us all with you knowledge

TheoCryst · Oct 13, 2007, 07:42 PM

Learn a new musical instrument
Learn to program
Work out/go jogging
Masturbate furiously
Troll Microsoft-sympathetic message boards

Peter · Oct 14, 2007, 08:57 AM

unicorns and horsies are technically the same animal.

11011001 · Oct 14, 2007, 06:31 PM

Why not take a nap?

brassplayersrock² · Oct 14, 2007, 06:34 PM

usually when i'm bored, i'm to restless to nap

bradoesch · Oct 14, 2007, 10:54 PM

I can't remember the last time I was bored. It was probably over 10 years ago, sometime before the Internet was popular.