I got bored one evening and took my digital camera, a bunch of Star Trek action figures, and some slideshow software and made stop motion movies of the figures “dancing” across my computer desk.
It took about an hour to make a 2 minute movie, but I laughed my ass off when I saw the results.
…and you?
I once* dressed my cats up in “baby doll” clothes. They did not like it much, but I thought it was pretty darn funny 
*I did this many years ago when my li’l sis was still a tot with baby dolls. So that was like… um… 12 years ago.
I got bored one day. It was towards the end of summer. So I drew a map, of a fantasy world in my head. Split it up into about 23 different countries.
I rolled dice to see who would attack who, and how much ground they would take. It was silly, and pretty much up to me on all aspects.
I made copies of the continental outlines, so I could redraw the map after a period of global warfare.
I used that one map, and intitial world, for about 3 months. Towards the end I was drawing up “Atlas” style entries for each nation, talking about their history, their culture, etc.
I am a big dork.
I routinely hire hookers to read Shakespeare to me in phonetic Russian.
Very soothing, I’ll tell you whut.
That’s so funny!
Back in 92’-93’ my brother and I did that exact same thing with star trek and x-men action figures and the family camcorder. I think we had Picard dancing with Wolverine. Then Geordi came in and phasered them.
Recently while shopping at a CVS, I found an X-Men Professor X w/wheelchair for $2.50. I bought the last two.
Ideas are forming…
Someday I’ll write up the story of the Barbie Dream Trebuchet, but tonight is not the time.
Hmmmmmm…
Well I don’t know how creative this is, but I make these comic strips of a stick figure named Timothy. He does drugs, picks up hookers, robs lemonade stands, and gets drunk a lot. People who get these comics laugh their heads off. People who don’t stare at me like I am insane and walk away. Ah well. I think they are cool, and I wasted a whole hour making a page of these Timothy Comics.
Pffft. Amature.
I have a whole website for that. Plus, it has languages.
http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/fnuh
and someday it will be as good as this guy’s:
I painted an interesting landscape with leftover nail polish. The glittery ones are good for moonlight and water effects.
I painted my husband’s toenails blue - he didn’t even notice until I was on his 3rd toe.
I’ve got nearly 2 albums worth of half-finished songs on my multitrack
A huge Neverwinter Nights module I’m working on…
Scripts for an animé series I’m writing…
Designing my new Ultimate Entertainment Center…
Pencil-n-paper D&D modules…
And a healthy dose of ADHD which garauntees none of them will ever be finished 
Damn the electric fence!
We went down to the county Human Services department and picked up a sibling group … Now that they are teens, I’m wondering if we should have stuck to making stop-action figurine movies or painting nails.
I made a repeating tape loop once with about a minute between words. All it said was Straight, Right, Left. Over and over. I would put the tape in my car and drive for a while, then turn on the tape and start following the directions. I had some adventures. 
I wonder if I still have it somewhere. I’m suddenly feeling the urge to wander…
Oooh! Concultures! Yeah, I did that before.
First attempt: I designed a city called Minervia. A west-coast Canadian city. It wasn’t that good, but I did manage to finish it.
Second attempt: starting with a constructed language, a fiendishly difficult piece of work called Lyanjen, I designed part of a conculture to match. I got bogged down, though, and let it slide. I still have it around here.
Third attempt: I’m presently working on another city called La Luz, the capital of a fictional North American country, a former Spanish colony called Mar de Cristal. I’m actually doing pretty well with it. Have been plugging away at it on and off since 2002. I’ve got about a third of the city mapped, as well as broad-scale maps of the country and some notions about its history and political organization.
(One of the hardest things about making a concity is naming all the streets. From time to time I throw in a few in-jokes… one of the biggest churches is the Basilica de San Policarpo, and I named a series of four streets Calle Santa Laura, Calle Santa Cristina, Calle Cordero (Spanish for “lamb”) and Calle Perséfone. After Persephone, naturally.)
Years ago I got paper and pencils and made myself a fantasy equestrian centre, loads of stables, paddocks, indoor and outdoor arenas, hired staff - everything. I’d hold showjumping competitions using dice I made that had faults [that occur in real showjumping competitions] instead of numbers. I must’ve used 100 sheets of paper on it. Threw the whole lot in the bin when we moved house
Nowadays I do a similar thing online at Virtual Horse Ranch 
How many driveways? One-way streets? Brick walls? Front yards?
Wow! I was about to post the very same thing (minus the dice/jumping competition thing). In fact, I just recently ran across some of my Dream Horse Farm plans I’d sketched out. Pages and pages of neatly drawn buildings and paddocks, all painstakenly detailed and labeled. I guess I had a lot of time on my hands as a kid.
And you say there’s a website for this? runs off to look
I have a 2 1/2 ft tall trebuchet made of cardboard. It’ll fling a marble 10 feet or so(I’m afraid to try anything heavier, or add more weight)
I also have a Stirling engine made with empty beer cans(sadly it no longer functions, but I am kinda bored).
And about 10 quadrillion half-finished adventures, campaigns, worlds, and incomplete thoughts about things that would be cool to do to a party.
Color and font removed because I can’t stand to read text in that font or color.
When I was a kid, I used to crumple and smooth the brown paper from cut up grocery bags, until it somewhat resembled leather. Then I would carefully cut out and assemble various bridles, halters, and saddles for my model horses. I used to make the hardware, such as buckles and rings, out of thin copper wire. I would examine photos and drawings of tack to get my patterns, there were no printed patterns. I think that I was able to make some pretty realistic tack for my model horses that looked MUCH better than the plastic bridles and saddles that some of them came with. I even padded the saddles in the appropriate places.
I also used to make my own scented talcum powder, from perfume and plain baby powder. Back then, nobody did this. Now it’s in fashion.
I tried carding and spinning the “wool” of my dog’s undercoat. I wasn’t able to do it, I imagine because her hair just wasn’t quite long enough, and I didn’t really know how to do it. I was going by the brief descriptions in schoolbooks.
Yes, my parents used to worry about me a lot.