Boredom Solving Tactics?

[Lineoutt]

So I just came back from a two week trip with my family across the continent. Since I arrived home I realized something: Every single one of my friends is gone. I am not kidding. They are all dispersed around the globe while I am the only one at home. I have about 2 weeks to kill before anyone of them gets back.

My xbox is in storage and all I have is my macbook. Yay.

Escapists, what do you do to avoid tremendous boredom with no money?

 

[Eternalsun]

INTERNET PORN

 

[Griphphin]

Find things people say you can't technically do, and
[h4]prove.[/h4]
[HEADING=3]Them.[/HEADING]
[HEADING=1]WRONG.[/HEADING]

 

[Chamale]

Go to tvtropes.org. When your browser crashes due to an overload of tabs open, you'll notice that 12 hours have passed. Repeat until friends return.

 

[Bobzer77]

Buy a pc and get some games?

Or if you want to keep your macbook you could buy some of the mac releases on steam, I think you can get the 21 day eve trial on a mac = ?

Or just go here www.armorgames.com (admittedly thats more of a *kill a few hours* solution).

 

[Radeonx]

Pirate tons of games.
Play flash games.
Tons of flash games.

 

[Tharwen]

These probably won't last two weeks, but here are some bits of software every mac should have:

[a href="http://www.pure-mac.com/friv.html#liquidmac"]Liquidmac[/a]
[a href="http://secretexit.com/freeware/stairdismount"]Stair Dismount[/a]
[a href="http://simonhaertel.de/"]Quinn[/a]
[a href="http://www.thewayoftheninja.org/"]N[/a]

 

[Kpt._Rob]

Read a good book? I always have at least 50 books sitting around my appartment, that I picked up expecting to read in the near future, and just never got around to. Certainly you must have at least one book lying around that you haven't read yet? If you don't, may I suggest my favorite book series of all time, Simon R. Green's Something From the Nightside and all of it's sequels? Granted, I guess getting it at a bookstore might cost you some money, and who's to say if a library might or might not actually have it. Still, if you can get a copy, it's the most fun you can possibly have while reading! Every time a new entry in the series comes out, I end up not being able to put it down.

 

[Eternalsun]

make new friends

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

If you've got friends to mooch from, a little bit of sweet leaf almost always leads to good times. If not, make friends with cooler people.

 

[MKScorpion]

Go to Cracked.com and read their awesome articles. God knows how many hours I wasted on that site. =\

 

[Lineoutt]

Find things people say you can't technically do, and
[h4]prove.[/h4]
[HEADING=3]Them.[/HEADING]
[HEADING=1]WRONG.[/HEADING]

Great idea! I'm gonna go defy gravity be right back...

*SPLAT*
...ow

 

[Frankydee]

interwebs, rewatch movies. "bout it on my end (I'm actually sort of in the same boat here.)

 

[lightningmagurn]

snopes.

 

[Wardnath]

Well, you could post on here.

heheheheheheheh...

 

[Dyp100]

Same thing happened to me.

I'm fending it off by 4chan, TVtropes, and Cracked.

Though, mostly 4chan, since I got burnt out on cracked and IDK...Just forgot about tropes.

 

[Alex Cowan]

I went on TV tropes just now. I looked back at a clock and the "few minutes" had become half an hour, and I had 12 tabs open...

OT: Learn a musical instrument - you can sink so much time in learning a skill like that, if you want to. Obviously that's only for some people, but you can get a cheap guitar for about the price of one video game, and it's probably a more permanent thing than any game

 

[L4hlborg]

Why is it, that this particular thread shows up every day? I usually don't complain about repeat threads, but this is getting a bit ridiculous. Is everyone really that bored? You are at a forum site. Writing stuff. Wouldn't the logical solution be to write more stuff?

Also, if you for some reason don't writing stuff, even though you just did, you are on the Internet. Now there is a lot of things to do in the internet, ranging from watching porn to looking for pictures of silly cats.

Also, you are most likely in a room. The room most likely has a lot of stuff to do too. Depending on this particular one has to offer, you can probably do anything ranging from working out to attempting to move your eyes seperately. Or learning to fluently say the alphabet backwards.

Also, you are probably in a house. A house most likely has a tv, some form of literature and a toilet. There are many things you can do there too.

Also, you are most likely in some form of civilized comunity. If you are at the country side, you can milk cows or ride horses. If you are in town, you can go shopping, watch or rent a movie or be a crazy stalker.

Also, you are in a country. If you are bored of your town, you can probably go to the countryside. Or the other way around, opening more endless oportunities.

Also, you live on Earth, meaning you can travel to different lands to explore new life and new civilization. Opening even more posibilities of what to do.

Also, if you truly wanna go where no man has gone before, build a spaceship and go exploring, since you are also, in space. How cool is that?

Also... Yeah, you probably got the point already, so I'm not gonna go any further.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

If you have the proper means, try baking something. That always keeps me from being bored, and gives you a nice reward for your efforts.
Usually in the meantime, I Stumble and go on TV Tropes though, when I'm not watching a movie or playing games.
Or hell, write a story. It's more therapeutic than anything for me, but I enjoy it muchly.

 

[Jaywebbs]

Go to tvtropes.org. When your browser crashes due to an overload of tabs open, you'll notice that 12 hours have passed. Repeat until friends return.

Replace that 12 hours with 1 month.

Tvtropes is always a great time waster.