Suggestions of things to do sitting at work for 8 hours?

[Abby_Normal]

If it were me I would:

1.Read
2.Knit
3.Sereptitiously masturbate

Right now I'm really digging audiobooks because I can read AND knit at the same time.

[d3ad1ysp0rk]

1. smoke weed
2. smoke weed
3. smoke weed

If only it were opposite day, that'd be the best suggestion yet! Good job!

Are you artistic? I'd take up drawing/sketching/whatever. It's always good to use your creative side as well every once in a while.

[heavens exile]

If only it were opposite day, that'd be the best suggestion yet! Good job!

Are you artistic? I'd take up drawing/sketching/whatever. It's always good to use your creative side as well every once in a while.

i have been drawing my whole life. its actually a bore to me now. i grew up watching my father draw, he's an engineer and does alot of drawings and designs for architects. this we before the days of autocad when it was him, his huge drawing board and lots of erasers. lol.

[zero]

If it were me I would:
1.Read
2.Knit
3.Sereptitiously masturbate
Right now I'm really digging audiobooks because I can read AND knit at the same time.

Post when you've figured out how to do all three at once....

[astcell]

If it were me I would:
1.Read
2.Knit
3.Sereptitiously masturbate

In that priority?

[skroo]

3.Sereptitiously masturbate

This is always a good one, and if you're really skilled at it you can do it wel enough to plant the seed of doubt (no pun intended) in your coworkers' minds as to what you're really up to. Not blatantly enough to get fired, but well enough that they just fuck the hell off away from you and call rather than drop by.

Post when you've figured out how to do all three at once....

You've got feet, right?

1. Smoke weed
2. Smoke weed
3. Smoke weed

Spicoli, you're a credit to mankind. Truly.

[astcell]

This is always a good one, and if you're really skilled at it you can do it wel enough to plant the seed of doubt (no pun intended) in your coworkers' minds as to what you're really up to. Not blatantly enough to get fired, but well enough that they just fuck the hell off away from you and call rather than drop by.

It's no fun when you work alone though. It's like getting in a jacuzzi with nothing on, and you're alone. What's the point?

[skroo]

It's no fun when you work alone though. It's like getting in a jacuzzi with nothing on, and you're alone. What's the point?

Air jets and privacy.

[d3ad1ysp0rk]

i have been drawing my whole life. its actually a bore to me now. i grew up watching my father draw, he's an engineer and does alot of drawings and designs for architects. this we before the days of autocad when it was him, his huge drawing board and lots of erasers. lol.

uhh, the second part was to pr0zac0x2a, but sure ;)

[Abby_Normal]

In that priority?

Yes, otherwise I'd never get anything done.

[Abby_Normal]

Post when you've figured out how to do all three at once....

If I could do all three at once I don't think I'd need a job anymore.

[pr0zac0x2a]

If I could do all three at once I don't think I'd need a job anymore.

And now I'm left wondering which of the three you are keeping the job in order to do...

-zac

[Abby_Normal]

And now I'm left wondering which of the three you are keeping the job in order to do...

-zac

Well, yarn and books cost money...

[Macavity]

1) Invest in a palmtop - granted, they're not as useful as a laptop, but they're a hell of a lot easier to hide - and use that to write up Perl snippets to test when you get home. Plus, a lot of them can be used as media players (one of my ex-coworkers at the local tax processing centre used to use one for just that purpose).

2) Some good books you might want to check out:

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Neuromancer, Count Zero, Virtual Light . . . hell, anything by William Gibson
Doctor Who: Dark Progeny - Steve Emmerson
Doctor Who: The Year Of Intelligent Tigers - Kate Orman
Doctor Who: System Shock and its sequel, Doctor Who: Millennium Shock - Justin Richards
The Star Wars: X-Wing series, by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston
Hacking For Dummies - Kevin Beaver (Hey, why not?)
Recipes for Disaster and Days of War, Nights of Love - CrimethInc Workers' Collective

3) If you've got enough cash, pick up a hard drive media player - I recommend the Creative Labs Nomad Zen Xtra myself, as they have about the same amount of space as an iPod (the largest has about 40 gigabytes of space, mine's got 30), but for about half the price (40GB runs about $250, 30GB around $220 - and that's with tax).

Plus, you don't have to fart around hacking out the code in the iPod OS that won't let it play anything that you haven't a) ripped yourself or b) downloaded from iTunes.

[Voltage Spike]

2) Some good books you might want to check out:

I would recommend any of the Effective... series of books by Addison-Wesley. Especially if you get semi-frequent interruptions.

Plus, you don't have to fart around hacking out the code in the iPod OS that won't let it play anything that you haven't a) ripped yourself or b) downloaded from iTunes.

In the interests of putting down disinformation, most of the previous sentence is false.