# Timewasters anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 15, 2009, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timewasters-anyone/499816 "2009-06-15T08:17:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NRichards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@NRichards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NRichards)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timewasters-anyone/499816/1 "2009-06-15T08:17:14Z")
I work overnights, where I am mostly in an office, parked infront of a computer. I’m sure my fellow dopers have loads of good links for me to waste time at 😃 Oh, and I should mention there are webfilters on this computer, so most games are gonna be out. ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timewasters-anyone/499816/2 "2009-06-15T08:22:01Z")
How about YouTube? It may not be up your alley, but I’ve just wasted an hour watching songs from Disney movies from my childhood. ---
**Author:** ![NRichards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@NRichards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NRichards)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timewasters-anyone/499816/3 "2009-06-15T08:25:48Z")
> [@horsetech](#): > > How about YouTube? It may not be up your alley, but I’ve just wasted an hour watching songs from Disney movies from my childhood. At home, yes. But I can’t view anything with sound. YouTube is an excellent timewaster indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timewasters-anyone/499816/4 "2009-06-15T08:46:28Z")
[TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage). Best time waster ever. I have lost many a would-have-been-productive evening to it. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a wiki about the various literary devices (tropes) found in television, film, literature, video games, and so on. It describes them in detail, picks them apart, pokes them with a pointy stick, and provides memorable examples from our collective entertainment culture. Just stick your favorite book, movie, TV show, video game, webcomic, or what-have-you into the search box and start reading. Be careful, though – before you know it you’ll have clicked all the way from [Star Wars](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StarWars) to [Seinfeld](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Seinfeld) with a million other pages in between (like [Rubber Forehead Aliens](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RubberForeheadAliens) and [I Hate You, Vampire Dad](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IHateYouVampireDad)), and it’ll be three in the morning. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timewasters-anyone/499816/5 "2009-06-15T16:14:49Z")
[omegle](http://omegle.com/) chat with a stranger ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timewasters-anyone/499816/6 "2009-06-15T17:41:53Z")
[www.fantasticcontraption.com](http://www.fantasticcontraption.com) I’ve collected a bunch of other links here: [http://home.comcast.net/~prestondrake/Links.htm](http://home.comcast.net/~prestondrake/Links.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timewasters-anyone/499816/7 "2009-06-15T19:19:16Z")
Do you like online games? I spent last summer using up precious weeks of my life playing the tower defense game Gemcraft. This summer, it’s Gemcraft 0: Gem of Eternity. You can find them on Armor Games, and all your free time will fly right by. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/timewasters-anyone/499816/8 "2009-06-15T19:25:36Z")
[Lileks.com](http://Lileks.com), particularly the [Institute of Official Cheer](http://lileks.com/institute/index.html). I can spend hours just poking around the Gallery of Regrettable Food and the Gobbler site, and there’s plenty more as well.