Ok, never thought I'd see the day... I'm running out of stuff to do online :eek:
Read the entire archives from fmylife and textsfromlastnight, gone through the archives for xkcd, ctrl+alt+del, userfriendly, questionablecontent. And hackaday, lifehacker, and the register don't put up enough new content to get me through the day.
Anyone out there know of any decent webcomics, newsfeeds, general time wasters (games included)? I spend just about all day connected and run out of stuff to do quickly with my usual stops.
Gimme some time wasters...
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vampyrewolf
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Gimme some time wasters...
Coffee before Conciousness
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
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vampyrewolf
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do... something? :confused: :p
other than play pool I haven't done a whole lot for socializing since I more or less quit drinking in october. Have 4-5 coffee shops within walking distance of the house (and good prices and long hours at the one, spent a few nights there reading)... have a workable pool hall in walking distance (if you don't get a warped table) and a couple decent ones 10-15min drive.
Heading out tomorrow for a fundraiser for my supervisor's ball team, get to listen to the band "Offset" (tells me they opened for Trooper a little while back), and enjoy a couple cheap drinks.
other than play pool I haven't done a whole lot for socializing since I more or less quit drinking in october. Have 4-5 coffee shops within walking distance of the house (and good prices and long hours at the one, spent a few nights there reading)... have a workable pool hall in walking distance (if you don't get a warped table) and a couple decent ones 10-15min drive.
Heading out tomorrow for a fundraiser for my supervisor's ball team, get to listen to the band "Offset" (tells me they opened for Trooper a little while back), and enjoy a couple cheap drinks.
Coffee before Conciousness
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
facebook. with mafia wars. http://www.cakewrecks.com is good, too.vampyrewolf wrote:Ok, never thought I'd see the day... I'm running out of stuff to do online :eek:
Read the entire archives from fmylife and textsfromlastnight, gone through the archives for xkcd, ctrl+alt+del, userfriendly, questionablecontent. And hackaday, lifehacker, and the register don't put up enough new content to get me through the day.
Anyone out there know of any decent webcomics, newsfeeds, general time wasters (games included)? I spend just about all day connected and run out of stuff to do quickly with my usual stops.
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vampyrewolf
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doc: haven't made a dent on the TED vids over the years, have a couple dozen downloaded to watch on my file server.
jason: I don't do facebook, but that cakewrecks looks interesting
Th232: I've covered about 1/4 of the material on cracked.com over the years.
tkdman41: heard about it, never hit it yet... might just have to.
aebfroman: barely made a dent there the last couple years
DMgangl: hulu doesn't work with a canadian IP, and my usual proxy servers don't like it. miro lets me download a few, but I usually pull my tv series as torrents. Just finished watching the last month or so of The Legend of the Seeker last night.
5.56: got a job, in fact I work 3 of em... 0700-1530 in the warranty dept at a major telecomm OEM, 1600-1800(if not -2300) as the IT dept for a courier company, and IT on the side as it comes in (could be 7 days a week for a month and then nothing for 3-4 months).
Next will be working on my cardio so that when I can hit the gym with my shoulder again I'll be able to workout for a couple hours a day again.
Some days I'm going from 0600-2300 solidly, but I'm never in bed before 0200, so I've got time to kill both at work and late at night when everyone else is in bed.
jason: I don't do facebook, but that cakewrecks looks interesting
Th232: I've covered about 1/4 of the material on cracked.com over the years.
tkdman41: heard about it, never hit it yet... might just have to.
aebfroman: barely made a dent there the last couple years
DMgangl: hulu doesn't work with a canadian IP, and my usual proxy servers don't like it. miro lets me download a few, but I usually pull my tv series as torrents. Just finished watching the last month or so of The Legend of the Seeker last night.
5.56: got a job, in fact I work 3 of em... 0700-1530 in the warranty dept at a major telecomm OEM, 1600-1800(if not -2300) as the IT dept for a courier company, and IT on the side as it comes in (could be 7 days a week for a month and then nothing for 3-4 months).
Next will be working on my cardio so that when I can hit the gym with my shoulder again I'll be able to workout for a couple hours a day again.
Some days I'm going from 0600-2300 solidly, but I'm never in bed before 0200, so I've got time to kill both at work and late at night when everyone else is in bed.
Coffee before Conciousness
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
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Here's a comic I enjoy: http://freefall.purrsia.com/
It only updates three times a week, but there are eleven years worth of comics since the story began. Ought to keep you busy for a couple of hours.
It only updates three times a week, but there are eleven years worth of comics since the story began. Ought to keep you busy for a couple of hours.
I don't believe in safe queens, only in pre-need replacements.
vampyrewolf,
After reading thousands of your posts over the years here and on other forums, I find this request most interesting. Interesting because I sometimes suffer the same malady. Maybe the old timers like you and I have indeed finally, as the joke goes, read everything there is on the 'net. :D
I have a cure.
Go read a book.
I read 125-150 books a year. My "book reading" defines and educates me, not my "internet reading".
I just finished The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Interesting read about the cold war. Beats the **** out of any spy shooting computer game.
Then, get some exercise. Take a walk and think about the book you just read.
I ENJOY my time on the 'net, I TREASURE my time with a good book.
dan :)
After reading thousands of your posts over the years here and on other forums, I find this request most interesting. Interesting because I sometimes suffer the same malady. Maybe the old timers like you and I have indeed finally, as the joke goes, read everything there is on the 'net. :D
I have a cure.
Go read a book.
I read 125-150 books a year. My "book reading" defines and educates me, not my "internet reading".
I just finished The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Interesting read about the cold war. Beats the **** out of any spy shooting computer game.
Then, get some exercise. Take a walk and think about the book you just read.
I ENJOY my time on the 'net, I TREASURE my time with a good book.
dan :)
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Two. Always two.
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I'm actually working on 3 books right now... as usual.
Brother Odd, by Dean Koontz
The Devil's Cure, by Kenneth Oppel
Virtual Light, by William Gibson
I've got to go through my shelves again and either put up ANOTHER shelf or clean out some that I haven't read in a while. I've got two 4' x 6' units full, some sections in there I have books in front of books and on top of books... I've got books on the floor in front that don't fit on the shelf and I just grabbed another 3 boxes of books at an annual fundraiser our local symphony puts on (another 70ish books).
Have to do a count again but I'm probably close to the 400 mark for books in my personal library now.
The last useful thing I found online was the free podcasts from different universities. I'm listening to Yale's 1st year Psychology again at work to keep my mind stimulated there.
Slowly unpacking the dump I got of wikipedia, all 225GB of data in static html form. If it didn't drag my network down to a crawl I'd have had it done a few days ago. now I'm copying it to the main drive on my file server and then unpacking on the secondary drive.
as far as "finally read it all"... that includes things I didn't exactly want to see :eek:
Brother Odd, by Dean Koontz
The Devil's Cure, by Kenneth Oppel
Virtual Light, by William Gibson
I've got to go through my shelves again and either put up ANOTHER shelf or clean out some that I haven't read in a while. I've got two 4' x 6' units full, some sections in there I have books in front of books and on top of books... I've got books on the floor in front that don't fit on the shelf and I just grabbed another 3 boxes of books at an annual fundraiser our local symphony puts on (another 70ish books).
Have to do a count again but I'm probably close to the 400 mark for books in my personal library now.
The last useful thing I found online was the free podcasts from different universities. I'm listening to Yale's 1st year Psychology again at work to keep my mind stimulated there.
Slowly unpacking the dump I got of wikipedia, all 225GB of data in static html form. If it didn't drag my network down to a crawl I'd have had it done a few days ago. now I'm copying it to the main drive on my file server and then unpacking on the secondary drive.
as far as "finally read it all"... that includes things I didn't exactly want to see :eek:
Coffee before Conciousness
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
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slice22358: I've read a few of the cyanide and happiness ones, might have to go through the archive this next week.
Spider bite: I'm a computer gamer, not console. And I'd wager that this laptop has more power than most people's towers, and even it is underpowered compared to either my main file server and media tower. For the price of an xbox package (system, controllers and a few games) I can build a pretty sweet computer. My main server only ran me $500ish.
This laptop: dual 1.8GHz AMD processor, 4GB DDR2 800 ram, 160GB 7200x Western Digital drive, 16x DVD-RAM (DVD-RW/DL), ATI 1270 vid card (VGA & HDMI out) running at 1440x900 (1.6:1), gigabit ethernet, 802.11 b/g wireless, bluetooth.
yablanowitz: might take me some time to get through that all.
Spider bite: I'm a computer gamer, not console. And I'd wager that this laptop has more power than most people's towers, and even it is underpowered compared to either my main file server and media tower. For the price of an xbox package (system, controllers and a few games) I can build a pretty sweet computer. My main server only ran me $500ish.
This laptop: dual 1.8GHz AMD processor, 4GB DDR2 800 ram, 160GB 7200x Western Digital drive, 16x DVD-RAM (DVD-RW/DL), ATI 1270 vid card (VGA & HDMI out) running at 1440x900 (1.6:1), gigabit ethernet, 802.11 b/g wireless, bluetooth.
yablanowitz: might take me some time to get through that all.
Coffee before Conciousness
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
vampyrewolf,
Well my friend, it sounds like you've got the reading thing pretty well covered. After I finished the above post, I was thinking (dangerous sport for me) that I'll bet he reads a lot based upon reading his posts over the years. Turns out I was right, huh?
Anyway.......
I hear ya on the library room, or lack thereof. Between Mrs. purple95 and I we own around 2000 books. They don't eat anything but suck up space like nobody's business.
Koontz and Gibson are old friends. I'm not familiar with Oppel.
Take care,
dan :)
Well my friend, it sounds like you've got the reading thing pretty well covered. After I finished the above post, I was thinking (dangerous sport for me) that I'll bet he reads a lot based upon reading his posts over the years. Turns out I was right, huh?
Anyway.......
I hear ya on the library room, or lack thereof. Between Mrs. purple95 and I we own around 2000 books. They don't eat anything but suck up space like nobody's business.
Koontz and Gibson are old friends. I'm not familiar with Oppel.
Take care,
dan :)
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Two. Always two.
Two. Always two.
What I do:
PartyPoker or something similar, I have several hundred million in play $.
Spider Solitaire, I play daily waiting for dial-up loads.
WordCrunch, http://www.rocketsnail.com/wordcrunch/
CandlePowerForums, look for a flashlight built like a Spyderco &/or exercise will power to avoid the ones you know you will enjoy.
Get some seeds, see the popular auction site, and grow this plant two meters tall: MIMOSA PUDICA. While making water on a lonely stretch of the Pan Am. highway in Costa Rica I met a two meter version of this plant to my total & complete amazement.
oregon
PartyPoker or something similar, I have several hundred million in play $.
Spider Solitaire, I play daily waiting for dial-up loads.
WordCrunch, http://www.rocketsnail.com/wordcrunch/
CandlePowerForums, look for a flashlight built like a Spyderco &/or exercise will power to avoid the ones you know you will enjoy.
Get some seeds, see the popular auction site, and grow this plant two meters tall: MIMOSA PUDICA. While making water on a lonely stretch of the Pan Am. highway in Costa Rica I met a two meter version of this plant to my total & complete amazement.
oregon
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I've eventually got to fill in Libra with my book and movie collections... but that was supposed to be my sister's gift to me for xmas.
The fun of tossing another book shelf in here is that both of the spots I have available will block plugs (for either my charging station or my surfing tower).
Surprisingly there's only a few authors I've grabbed over the years that I don't like. But that's the beauty of buying 90% of my books used. Most books have run me anywhere from a $1.00 to $10.00, so even if I give away a few I'm not out any cash compared to paying for new books.
The fun of tossing another book shelf in here is that both of the spots I have available will block plugs (for either my charging station or my surfing tower).
Surprisingly there's only a few authors I've grabbed over the years that I don't like. But that's the beauty of buying 90% of my books used. Most books have run me anywhere from a $1.00 to $10.00, so even if I give away a few I'm not out any cash compared to paying for new books.
Coffee before Conciousness
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.