I once started my project where I evaluated the popularity of name spellings in the phone book. How many MACDonalds vs McDonalds (restaurants NOT included) Then how many Read, Reed Reid and Rede listings. Then my roommate told me to get a life and go to Wreck Beach with him.
Whenever I visit my mom’s house I usually end up so bored I’m drooling. So far during this visit for christmas I’ve:
+Run around the house attacking various things with a wrapping paper tube pretending it’s a lightsabre.
+Written angsty poetry and read it to my cat.
+Used candles to cover my entire left hand in wax.
+Pondered about how hot wax feels kind of neat.
+Attacked the cat with my lightsabre. Results- Darth Kitty: 1 Darkprince: 0.
+Tried to beat Hastur’s record, but had to stop at 13.
During a seminar my friend and I had to take(on responsibility and maturity of all things), we started writing up commercials like KRC did. We were doing pretty good at keeping it to low snickering until he came up with Ghengis Kahndoms.
That’s the one method, yes. And while you can have infinite stretchablity for theoretical thought experiments, when dealing with a pair of cotton briefs, it becomes a lot more of a challenge. It helps to be flexible.
Sang the entire song “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” very loudly, much to the annoyance of my sister, who couldn’t get away from me because we were riding in a car.
Once in a particularly tedious math class, wrote down the names of all the Simpsons characters I could think of. By the end of 15 minutes, I had over 70 characters.
Shaved my pubic hair, and decided I like it better shaved.
Made a 3D rotating correct-perspective wireframe model of the ship from Starfox on my TI-83 calculator.
Also tried auto-fellatio (who hasn’t?)
Tried to change into one pair of pants without taking off the first pair first…and succeeded! (I’m not joking…I had a really stretchy swim suit, and it took me about 15 minutes, but I did it.)
That’s funny, 'cause I fire people for doing that all the time!!
I once had a job babysitting a mainframe on the weekends. I’d ket a bunch of stuff in and then just sit there for hours while it ran.
I used to make white-out sculptures. You can work it so there’s a big drop on the end of the brush and get it to pile up. Some were well over 1" high.
When they gave me someone else to work with, we linked rubber bands and made a rubber band chain as long as the warehouse. (easily over 100 yards). When the person on the other end let go, you could hear it coming and see it balling up in mid-air. It left bruises. We caught the security guard sleeping once, and I held it up to his phone book. When it hit, the book exploded and he launched himself outta that chair like he was bein’ electrocuted.
Last night, I was hanging out on an Unreal server, trying to see how low of a score I could get before someone else won the level. I got up to -65 in a game being played to 20 frags. My strategy was to head straight for the nearest lava after each respawn-- preferably shallow lava that you could jump up and down in for a while before you fried.
I had set up a text-message macro, so the whole thing looked a lot like this:
Oh yeah, I was bored.
Another time I tried to approximate a Newton fractal using a pendulum, a huge sheet of graph-paper, three massive speaker magnets, and magic markers. I’m sure you can imagine how that worked out.