What do you do when bored?

[gletob]

I just made a Geico money clip dude.

[JordyD]

I just made a Geico money clip dude.

I read forums.

[smartboyathome]

I just made a Geico money clip dude.

Oh my gosh! You forgot the lower jaw! :o

I just read forums and sometimes, when I have a good idea, do artwork and then stop working on it because one thing isn't right when I'm bored. :P

[kevin11951]

I read forums.

as do I

[tuskenraider]

gasp... /b/ LOL nah im not that bad off.. i read forums and try to fix my windows machine. But i like exercises in futility. LOL

Tusken

[hansdown]

I just made a Geico money clip dude.

Is that real money?

[gletob]

Is that real money?

yeah.

[Sneaky07]

Listen to music. Then an idea.

[Darkade]

I click the Stumble! button :D

[rickycodie]

stumble fing rocks. but then i never sleep....

[swoll1980]

play video games, check for new distro releases, Ubuntu forums, I must be bored now.

[sujoy]

search various forums and deviant art for screenshot thread and mod my desktop.
find some obscure little programming language and read up on it.
find a movie to waste some time on.

[pol666]

if I'm bored, I read forums (I'm bored all the time), If i'm more bored, I read english forums for practice.

Also, When the computer bores me, I usually customizes my desktop, or I leaves the pc and i don't know.. I get sleep, I watch movies, Play the guitar. Summer Holidays are bored (but it's necesary :P )

sorry, I don't know if I sayd OK

[hansdown]

yeah.

Sweet.

[tylerspaska]

make soap and watch the sopranos

[karellen]

I read

[MasterProg]

I study when I'm really bored xD

[MikeTheC]

I visit message boards and engage in the time honored practice of filling up a thread with a really long paragraph, comprised of many words and phrases and, hopefully, not too many misspellings or grammatical violations, carefully constructed so as to appear robust and full of content but, as Shakespeare once described, "signifying nothing".

I once thought about taking up cricket, but sadly there's no place around here to either learn or to practice that game. And, while I may be bored, I don't have an unlimited gas budget, so...

[sisco311]

I read books, newspapers, forums, wiki pages, ...

I like solving crosswords, sudoku, the Rubik's cube and other puzzles.

[cmay]

i talk to my self and sing stupid songs i just make up along the way. if i have any hair on my head i might shave it all off. i walk up and down the floor restless and speak to the bricks in the wall and the holes in the air i have punched out of boredom . in short i make something weird up and do very strange things when i am bored :).

[jespdj]

play video games, check for new distro releases, Ubuntu forums, I must be bored now.
But you've found something to do (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1069532).

[pol666]

Lately I'm using my free time to learn and practice English, It's a hard challenge to me. I'm Practicing now (with forums) and i don't now if I'm doing well

[hellion0]

I break my Linux installs... or at the least, I try to. Either that, or I build computers from parts.

[tuxsheadache]

I browse /wg/ and 4scrape for wallpapers, then spend hours on GIMP resizing images to get to a 1280*1024 resolution.
I have 400+ wallpapers so far, and many more to be added daily =)

[tuskenraider]

I browse /wg/ and 4scrape for wallpapers, then spend hours on GIMP resizing images to get to a 1280*1024 resolution.
I have 400+ wallpapers so far, and many more to be added daily =)

you should torrent that... id love a copy. or RS it.

just a thought.

tusken

[etnlIcarus]

When bored, I refer to the checklist (usually in this order):

- Check Ubuntu community cafe (amongst other forums) for interesting threads.
- Check Ubuntu community cafe (amongst other forums) for amusing threads.
- Check desktop news feeds for interesting articles/news.
- Fire up liferea and check a much more expansive list of feeds.
- Find something to eat.
- $ sudo apt-get update
- $ svn up SVN/* && gitpullall
- Porn surf.
- Clean up browser history ...amongst other things.
- Do some housework.
- Exercise.
- Turn on television.
- Check the comedy/drama channels.
- Check the doco channels.
- Check the kid's channels.
- Contemplate doing something constructive with my life.

[tuxsheadache]

you should torrent that... id love a copy. or RS it.

just a thought.

tusken

I will when I reach the 500 mark :)
What's your resolution? I have:
24x 1280*800
448x 1280*1024
26x 1440*900
67x 1600*1200
44x 1680*1050
7x 1920*1080
35x 1920*1200
18x 25601024+

If you can't tell I use 1280*1024 as my main resolution, and put them all on shuffle. I GIMP the images to the correct size, and keep the originals in case I get a new screen/resolution =)

[tuskenraider]

i have two... 1440x900 and regular hunky dory 1024X768 but anything that is close to those in related aspects gets used. Im also a wallpaper-aholic so i change mine ALL THE TIME. doesnt really matter the pic aspect.. as long as its a good picture.


tusken.

p.s yeah i know 1024X768 is so 5 yrs ago... but so is my monitor.

[tuxsheadache]

i have two... 1440x900 and regular hunky dory 1024X768 but anything that is close to those in related aspects gets used. Im also a wallpaper-aholic so i change mine ALL THE TIME. doesnt really matter the pic aspect.. as long as its a good picture.


tusken.

p.s yeah i know 1024X768 is so 5 yrs ago... but so is my monitor.

I refuse to use widescreen, I love my 1280*1024. My favourite new resolution is 1600*1200. I use it at work but we aren't allowed to change wallpapers for data protection reasons :(

[tuskenraider]

I refuse to use widescreen, I love my 1280*1024. My favourite new resolution is 1600*1200. I use it at work but we aren't allowed to change wallpapers for data protection reasons :(


work and thier stupid rules... we have a standard gray background with the company logo right smack in the middle of the screen. its pretty horrible. and there is NO way to change it. (im not an admin =(... )

And the widescreen is on my lappy. I didnt have much choice but to go with that... its okay 1440x900 is becoming a more popular res.

tusken

p.s i guess i debate screen resolutions when im bored. LOL

[DeadRobot]

Surf Ubuntu Forums
Check Reddit/Digg for interesting stuff
Check Math forums (yeah i like math...)
Play some online chess
Check my feeds on liferea
Facebook it up
Chat with friends online
Work on debate stuff (I do high school policy debate)
Tinker around with programming languages
Watch random youtube videos
Play guitar/violin/make techno music
Do homework
Play xbox

I never get bored. :D

[betterhands]

i don't get bored because when i have free time i'm on my American Football MMORPG (http://goallineblitz.com) or learing stuff here.

[BuffaloX]

1:
I visit message boards and engage in the time honored practice of filling up a thread with a really long paragraph, comprised of many words and phrases and, hopefully, not too many misspellings or grammatical violations, carefully constructed so as to appear robust and full of content but, as Shakespeare once described, "signifying nothing".

2:
I once thought about taking up cricket, but sadly there's no place around here to either learn or to practice that game. And, while I may be bored, I don't have an unlimited gas budget, so...

1:
In itself a perfect example of what is described, it almost feels recursive.

2:
Boredom for pros. It's like fighting fire with fire.

I read Digg news and Ubuntu Cafe.

[jimi_hendrix]

i just keep updating the forums...over and over again...and go on irc

[avaralom]

I mess with my computer when I get bored. Tonight I learned the real basics of mysql and created a few pointless databases. (:

That's if I'm feeling productive. otherwise I'll just browse digg and some forums..

[YaroMan86]

I use StumbleUpon.

And I riff against Windows sites that are all about trying to get functionality that I could get with any Linux distribution.

I play Wii.

I listen to music.

I program.

I read.

I do a lot of things.

[wolfen69]

What do you do when bored?

:^o :-s

[JackieChan]

Very interesting... :lolflag:


As for what I do when I'm bored:

Watch anime

lurk and post on a bunch of forums

youtube

listen to music

watch movies

research things

stare at my lava lamp

hold my bearded dragon

play with my Tux and Cthulhu plushs

Video conferences and voice chat on skype

talk to friends over pidgin

make youtube videos

write short stories and novels

porn/hentai

read/watch blogs

read articles

browse ebay and amazon

lurk on digg

play Wii

invite some friends over

play my Nintendo DS

learn more Japanese

read books

read manga and comics

download new software

toy around with programming languages

test out new operating systems

vandilize wikipedia

eat and sleep

watch TV shows on Hulu

email

talk to my friends from overseas

[Exershio]

lurk 4chan
tetris
"tweaking" my computer (breaking :D)
Guitar/keyboard/bass/drums/fruity loops

[MikeTheC]

I also throw Force lightning at unsuspecting passers-by, like this:

http://earthfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/force-lighning.jpg

[00ber n00b]

I think about finances and try to figure out how to better my future. Such as futhering my education, investments..etc.

[Rokurosv]

I hunt themes for my desktop, wallpapers, icons. Then tweak around a bit, clean files, post tweets, check youtube, check the ubuntu forums. Most of the time I listen to music and read a good programming book, right now I'm reading about Ruby :D

[halovivek]

when i get bored i will just go to sleep... nothing more...

[RichardLinx]

Forums or Videogames... Or I sit down and hit a bouncy ball on my tennis racket for one to two hours...