I need more ways to waste time

if your firm doesn't block it, gchat is a great way to waste time.

Watch "Greek" or "Reaper"

www.alluc.org

Hone your rock-paper-scissors skills in hopes of making it to the RPS World Series in Vegas. My friend actually did this, so it is entirely possible.

Learn sign-language

Study for the CFA so you have another credential to help you get a new job when you get laid off

Get in training for the Pain Olympics

Gchat - Already do it TVShows - Out like porn due to monitor visibility RPS - Creative, I like it Sign-Language - Creative, not really interested, but creative nonetheless CFA - Completely and utterly useless in the investment banking/PE field. I might as well go get my CPA and gouge my eyes out working at an accounting firm to get accredited Pain Olympics - Wow, I hadn't heard of that, but wow

Keep them coming

I think my ability to waste time (I'm currently 'studying' for my last ever uni exam) is so good that you should retain me as a consultant.

I'll even turn up ridiculously late for any meetings we have and just generally be really, really inefficient...thereby wasting even more of your time and upping my bonus...hopefully ;)

Get language CDs and learn another language.

Either you sling crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot

some other good websites

engadget, espn, gizmodo, cnet, bodybuilding.com online chess/online poker--may not be doable due to visibility buy shit- ebay, Amazon, slickdeals.net,etc. ipod/pandora helps cure boredom as well

i am a fan of max dirt bike

enough said

if no-one else is around, you should totally play the guitar hero rip-off where you can hold your keyboard like a guitar...classic

cold call PE shops and pitch them potential LBO targets, drum up your own deals

put those BSDs in their place

Work on lyrics for your indie-acoustic project

http://www.stumbleupon.com/, great time waster and can find some interesting sites...saved me from doing work many a time

THE STRANGER!!!!!

And I'll give you a cut of the revenue. As a highly-regarded industry expert, your contributions will be highly valued. :)

Note: I am only half-kidding here. If you do want to contribute we can work out a revenue sharing deal (more likely on some additions that will be ready in late summer).

BLOODY FUN AND ADDICTIVE

http://www.bored.com/games/media/tower_defense.swf

this will keep you at it for hours. I cant finish level 6 (wave 60 is what kills me). have fun.

bring some porn and just go masturbate in the bathroom

Ummm, so I get home tonight from the bars, pretty drunk, and of course I stumble across this thread and see the Alien tower game Mez posted. Long story short, an hour and a half later, almost sober now, I am on level 4 and kicking ass...

I think this game can cure your boredom. It would for me

Not gonna lie, Im busy as shit and I will still put in a good hour of stalking....

better living through design or ikeahack are interesting. also most ppl forget abt VF or RS but their cover stories are routinely great.

www.timezone.com if you want to learn about watches.

If you're at a good IB, then you'll have good exit opps. If you get your CFA, it will be useful at a hedge fund, and even if it's not as applicable on the buyside, people will still give you respect.

That picture is so perfect. Ive made some of the strangest contraptions while bored at work. Last week I threaded a plastic coffee stirrer on a T-pin. I also make these mouse-trap like contraptions out of the extra large Binder clips and a large paper clip, when engaged, toss it on someones desk a few cubes over and it snaps up like 4 ft in the air... more entertaining than learning sign language.

I can't get past level 5. I spend so much time upgrading, and building a single winding path and I still can't hold the aliens off. Game over man, game over!

gawker & jezebel (way better than perez)
guestofaguest & downbythehipster (blogs on bar life in nyc)
nyt - esp bitten by mark bittman
jossip
gridskipper, curbed, wired, racked
101 cookbooks & smittenkitchen
waiterrant (although this is updated less often now - the archives are money)
datelab in the washingtonpost
sexdiaries in nymag (assuming you can read these w/out people seeingthem)
politico.com (esp this election cycle)
truthdig

ANY SUGGESTIONS!!!????

Mission 6 is impossible.

Had no trouble getting to 6. Now that i'm on 6, i can't seem to get past stage 55ish. I mean, talk about nasty.

I just discovered you can upgrade turrets. This is great!

mission 6 wave 46.

I can't even get past level three. It's been far too long since I was a good gamer...

seriously, i've lost my touch. Any help on level 3 would be appreciated. What's your strategy? Do you upgrade a lot? What towers do you use?

the key is to make the path to the other side the longest for both lines.use the dcm to take car of the flying ones

nevermind. i got it.

I F'ing hate the blob aliens that turn into other aliens after you kill them! Sometimes when they split they squeeze past your guns... Im still on level 5

Do you ever feel that work is kind of like the unrelenting aliens? It just keeps coming with no end in sight and you have to make windy path just to get to your desk chair because of all the work?

stuck on five. I'm solid until about wave 48.

Seriously, whoever posted that just ruined all productivity I had going on this week. I was traveling, so in a hotel room, without a mouse cursing my laptop for not moving accurately or fast enough.

I only got to wave 30 or so on level 6.

holy fuck that's a great idea.

i got to wave 71 and died :( I think I read somewhere that it's actually impossible to win considering the rate at which the flying things' health increases, and the amount of money you earn...I'll try to find and post a link that has somebody talking about how Rice students calculated the game can only be won if the level 100 flying things were slowed 15-20%

edit: a gamer's discussion forum http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2007/07/27/xeno-tactics-strategy-guide/

Thanks to that youtube post, I was able to make it to wave 51 level 6, but I essentially lost the game many waves before wave 51.

Video no longer available. The barrage in level 35 kills me every time. I had all but one health bar and level 35 demolished me.

I check clicked the link and it works. Or you can go to youtube and search for this "Xeno Tactic -Expert Mission 6 - (Level 100-V3)"

Are you still playing with your laptop?

Mez, great post, but I wonder how many cumulative hours have been spent by all WSO monkeys playing this game since your post. Do you think you have indirectly led to anyone getting fired because they were either 1) caught playing the game or 2) let their productivity slack so they got canned?