GirlattheHelm Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Several [not very constructive but wonderful time wasting] things you can do while waiting! 1. Post on the Grad Caf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadhelyn Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 11. Teach yourself how to make random pieces of leather (or steel, if you have the money!) armor 12. Knit chainmail 13. Reread Lord of the Rings 14. Watch every episode of Stargate SG1 in order 15. Read through the archives of reallifecomics.com, ctrlaltdel-online.com, penny-arcade.com, threepanelsoul.com, xkcd.com, phdcomics.com, and icanhascheezburger.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illinoisellie Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 16. Reread textbooks 17. Attempt to study for tests while actually just zoning out and thinking about whether or not you'll get accepted. 18. Listen to some REALLY REALLY LOUD classic hard rock 19. Rubik's Cube. If you're good at it, time how long it takes you to solve it blindfolded with the cube behind your back. 20. Clean your room/house. Several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoonfeeding Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 (wanted to add http://fafblog.blogspot.com/ to #15.) 21. Teach yourself to sew and make gifts for everyone you forgot existed during grad app season- er, I mean, the holiday season. 22. If it's not pouring rain (like here), go for a hike or walk. The exercise and lack of ability to check email 30 times a second will do you good. (Yes, the birds will mock you the whole time, but that can't be helped.) 23. Catch up on all old TiVo'd shows, watch them online, or rent the entire series of Arrested Development or Firefly and watch straight through. 24. Study for the upcoming year, work on learning a language, and writing articles for submission (ahahaahaahhahaha- sorry this one's a joke). 25. Decide there's no reason you can't make a pony out of straw, and let http://www.instructables.com/ take over your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socialpsych Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Ooh. This is a great thread. Sheppard Software is going to be a hit over here, I can already tell! And on Wednesday, while I'm waiting to hear from Top Choice School, I think I'll clean my room while listening to some classic hard rock... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragynally Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Go to site. Read Refresh Repeat...Trust me http://nielsenhayden.com/overlord/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterpat Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 1. Make lists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GirlattheHelm Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 1. Make lists. Heh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonights Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 I've been fostering batches of kittens for the local Humane Society. Chasing them around certainly takes up a lot of my excess nervous energy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow#5 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Here's some jewels to search on youtube which I discovered wasting time and would like to share: 1. Jonlajoie (warning -- do NOT look if you are easily offended or offended by...anything.) 2. Ken Lee on Bulgarian Idol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbiKpvoCkog 3. Bernie und Ert (the alternative lifestyle "Bert and Ernie" -- this is only funny if you speak German.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLK3WbvnNu0 4. And for the poli sci students: Duma fights! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1jcB5Jc3Ls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psycholinguist Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 31. Learn a new language. (Okay, I'm biased. I admit it.) 32. Start work on that novel you've always wanted to write. 33. Organise your computer-files. ALL of them. 34. Make cookies. Repeatedly if need be. 35. Take up a new hobby. Anything. (How about knitting while bungee-jumping?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victory Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 36. Wake up at noon. Drink beer till drunk. Watch history channel. Order pizza. Pass out. Wake up. Drink beer. (Only a viable option over a long weekend...but god is it great) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enantiomorph Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 37. http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagger Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 that #5 killed my evening. I am addicted to the tank game. Its bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GirlattheHelm Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 that #5 killed my evening. I am addicted to the tank game. Its bad. Isn't it wonderful? 37. http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ This website should be made illegal. It's so depressing and yet remarkably amusing to feel better about myself at the expense of a comic book character. 1. Jonlajoie (warning -- do NOT look if you are easily offended or offended by...anything.) I absolutely DIED. I made everyone in the office watch it. I am so getting a set of Rapist Glasses at the dollar store tomorrow. Keep 'em coming folks! Lists are grand... 38. Watch all episodes of Bones, Scrubs, and House. 39. Get out that old collection of marbles and jacks. 40. Subscribe everyone you know to free tranny porn snail-mail advertisements and watch the horror unfold. 41. Go to McMurray Hatchery and buy birds - or, if your parents live on a farm, send them to your parents farm house - that 4am phone call to pick up your chicks at the post office is super hilarious. [Note] 42. End up at Sotheby's to tour superb luxury real estate and daydream about "What if I won the Mega Millions Jackpot..." : SOTHEBY REAL ESTATE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnlikelyGrad Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 41. Go to McMurray Hatchery and buy birds - or, if your parents live on a farm, send them to your parents farm house - that 4am phone call to pick up your chicks at the post office is super hilarious. [Note] Alas, I'm not going to order chicks until after I move. My little guy is pestering me to order more--we love baby chicks (and, yes, grown hens as well). I do like thinking about what breeds I would order if I had room for 50 chickens, though. I think it's a trip how many chicks they squeeze into such a small box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swr22 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 36. Wake up at noon. Drink beer till drunk. Watch history channel. Order pizza. Pass out. Wake up. Drink beer. (Only a viable option over a long weekend...but god is it great) Watch 'Drunk History' on Youtube? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakrabite Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I agree. That tank game is like crack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GirlattheHelm Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 Alas, I'm not going to order chicks until after I move. My little guy is pestering me to order more--we love baby chicks (and, yes, grown hens as well). I do like thinking about what breeds I would order if I had room for 50 chickens, though. I think it's a trip how many chicks they squeeze into such a small box. McMurray has the process down pat - and their Mary Poppin's filled boxes are awesome too. I can still hear them cheeping madly when I close my eyes, sigh! See, any time I need to lift my spirits I send a batch to my parents - the mail order days when 100 Baby Chicks showed up at random addresses doesn't work anymore (which is slightly disappointing for the farmers prank community - though it doesn't deter us as much as they like to think it does). But, hey, stock up on money and you can buy an incubator if you don't all ready have one. It's my -favorite- side hobby. And the second best thing to raising chickens: Hatching Button Quail Eggs I hatched 300 one year and didn't know what to do with myself - they're the size of a bumble bee when they hatch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnlikelyGrad Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 See, any time I need to lift my spirits I send a batch to my parents - the mail order days when 100 Baby Chicks showed up at random addresses doesn't work anymore (which is slightly disappointing for the farmers prank community - though it doesn't deter us as much as they like to think it does). Sigh. My parents moved to a townhouse when they retired. But, hey, stock up on money and you can buy an incubator if you don't all ready have one. It's my -favorite- side hobby. And the second best thing to raising chickens: Hatching Button Quail Eggs I hatched 300 one year and didn't know what to do with myself - they're the size of a bumble bee when they hatch! An incubator has been on my wish list for a long time. I wouldn't mind crossing some breeds, just for fun, to see how the chickens come out. (Our current chickens are 'mutts' that we got from a friend: half Cochin, half Silkie. They're very beautiful.) What do you do with 300 button quail? Sell them? (I can't imagine preparing that many birds for the table.) For that matter, how do you handle 100 chicks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnlikelyGrad Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I don't think anyone's posted this one yet...good for a few laughs... http://engrishfunny.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GirlattheHelm Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 An incubator has been on my wish list for a long time. I wouldn't mind crossing some breeds, just for fun, to see how the chickens come out. (Our current chickens are 'mutts' that we got from a friend: half Cochin, half Silkie. They're very beautiful.) What do you do with 300 button quail? Sell them? (I can't imagine preparing that many birds for the table.) For that matter, how do you handle 100 chicks? Just get a great incubator when you do. The new ones with the contact bladders are AWESOME... And they're humidity controlled with automatic turners, and are large enough to hatch an ostrich egg! Anyway... Yeah, the 300 Button Quail was a trip all its own. I had actually remodeled my parent's downstairs kitchen in my youth. I had various projects - first, taxidermy and bone salvaging; then making all sorts of stuff that could have gotten me killed or arrested; and finally, birds. I had a candling station, an incubation area, a First-24-Hours brooder. Then we brought in a huge cattle trough and used my mother's industrial plant light rack to string up the brooding lamps. I had dividers at one point, then as the chicks grew I put on leg bands to keep me aware of genetics so I wasn't allowing them to in breed, since I had 5 separate egg suppliers, though one of them kept sending me free eggs because she couldn't/wouldn't hatch them, which was sort of a pain. It was a MASSIVE undertaking as they started to grow - even though they only grow to a handful size, even smaller than a dove! They were so loud, even for being so small, that I could hear my house cheeping from outside. People all over town came to see my bizarre collection as these flocks of tiny birds were put out on my front yard (which is basically a field with a horse paddock in front of it). They were rotationally placed outside in makeshift cover cages during the day. I kept them in batches in our downstair's garage at night and some still in the furnace room depending on age and need for more heat. By the time the first egg was laid, however, I had people taking them home with them. Little kids started showing up on their ATV's and asking if they could have one (or a few!) and since we're a very-very-very small town I'd call their mother and ask if it was okay. Since it's mostly agricultural people they allowed it, and took more than one. I sent them home with some instructions on how to feed them and what to house them in. I think a few ended up at the local fairs for show, a few people bred them, and others I know are still alive and well today as general house pets across town. But that was only the TIP of what I gave away. It really started happening when I had strangers showing up trying to buy them. It ended up paying for most of the trouble I went through... But it also became problematic. In fact, the button quail were no trouble; it was, rather, the people that were the problem. I gave away every last button quail - and people still showed up! When there were no more, these folks bought all of my Cayuga and Peking ducks, along with our remaining bantam chickens! The comedy was good, though. I'll never forget a van full of five kids, all with a box, to pick out their respective quail to take home - and I never really started it; I just gave a few to my neighbors up the road and it turned into a minor boomtown for farmhouse pets through word of mouth. It was the cutest experience I've ever endured without becoming nauseated. And once they were gone I'm pretty sure my mother's bloodpressure fell. I'm buying an emu this year, though. I'm sure she'll be pleased. Note: We are going to raze about 150 various meat chickens this year, though. My family owns a USDA inspected meat processing plant and we are poultry licensed, so we're going to do some for our freezer - and everyone else in town. So it should be interesting. I'm also trying to get 10 geese too, though I'm not sure what kind I want just yet or if I want them to just hang around or if I want to eat them too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugaku Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Note: We are going to raze about 150 various meat chickens this year, though. Great story! Although I hope you meant raise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GirlattheHelm Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Great story! Although I hope you meant raise Well... surprisingly I suppose both context work...which is... kind'a of creepy. Yes, raise - we will be raising 150 various meat chickens this year. And then we will "raze" them... (Raze = to level/to demolish) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splic Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 orisinal.com is a great waste of time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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