Generic Bored @ Work Thread

[Illyena]

So... yes. I'm looking for more to waste my worktime with apart from Facebook (oh, shush) and Nanaca Crash. Any suggestions?

[Shigy]

Well the little sound thing negs posted the other day is a good time waster...but being noisy may not be the best thing for wasting time at work...You could always read bash.org if you haven't before...do a little dance?

[Klinical]

Bored at work you say? I need an assistant

[Illyena]

Bored at work you say? I need an assistant

After Lyk's talk of the "heterometer" last night, this actually sounds strangely appealing. Hmmm...

[Nicodar]

Bored at work you say? I need an assistant

Here's your new assistant! *hands Klinical a freshly polished angry rabid badger in trousers*

[Xebinon]

I often read webcomics when work requires me to sit and wait and just keep an eye on something and wait for it to go wrong. Most of them only update a few times a week, so I have a long list of sites to check for new pages, but I'll just list a few favorites here.

Girl Genius - A female geek in a vaguely Earth-like steampunk / gaslamp world full of monsters, robots, and mad scientists. Good mix of comedy and drama.

MegaTokyo - Two hardcore American gamers get stuck in Tokyo with no money, where they have to deal with ninjas, giant lizards, androids, the undead, and even schoolgirls, some of whom may be magical. May be a little heavy on the drama for some readers.

Looking For Group - Takes place in a fantasy game world, with a horribly, hilariously mismatched group. A little drama here and there, mostly dark humor.

Ctrl-Alt-Del - Gamers and their friends, some of whom may even be sane, for a given definition of reality. Mostly comedy with occasional bursts of drama. Oh yeah, robot.

Least I Could Do - No video games here and only occasional fantasies about sci-fi, fantasy, or games. It's just this guy named Rayne, being a guy, and refreshingly, sometimes disturbingly, honest about it. Updates every day!

8 Bit Theater - Low-rez comedy of a motley crew of hyperexaggerated archetypes in a fantasy world. Much absurdity, very little drama. Very few robots.

[Illyena]

Thanks, Xebi - got three out of six covered already, but I'll check out the other ones.

[Xebinon]

Great! Glad to help. Let me know which ones you like and I might have other suggestions. I'm always keeping an eye out for more good web comics, too, so if you have some other favorites, please share with the class.

[Neoagent]

As of lately other then reading my comics and doing my twitter thing I've been writing adult-swimish blurbs and putting them in my cubicle. I try to make them semi-work related such as:

E=mc²: A 5-Character Physics formula that when expressed in text simply translates to “energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared,” proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein. This formula is also known as mass–energy equivalence which is the concept that states that the mass of a body is a measure of its energy content. What we ordinarily call the mass of a body is always equal to the total energy inside, up to a factor that changes the units. The formula implies that any small amount of matter contains a very large amount of energy. Some of this energy may be released as heat and light by nuclear transformations which has potential to explode at, but not exceeding, the speed of light.

PPPoE: A 5-Character Network Engineer term which describes the type of connection protocol that requires a login.


[Nice try engineers]
[Randy]

I know, I'm lame and have nothing better to do..

[Tarryk]

Wtb boredom @ work.

[Disera]

no you dont' tarryk, Boredom at work sucks.. makes work longer.

[Shigy]

http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/
Funny D&D homour with a lot of lego and other weird story lines all going on at once

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/stolen-pixels

Poking fun at games

http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0001.html

D&D campaign based in star wars done using screen captures.

http://xkcd.com/

Geeky Web comic

http://www.schlockmercenary.com/

Funny webcomic following a band of mercenaries. Just a warning characters die in this one.

http://www.wapsisquare.com/

Not really funny but a good storyline thats kept me reading for a while

http://reallifecomics.com/

A comic based around real life...only it gets completely silly at times and is pretty funny.

[Illyena]

Thanks a bunch, Shigy.

I've taken to watching Zero Punctuation now. I should really be ashamed. Oh, and I finished Girl Genius today. I freaking love it - more steampunk stuff, plskthx.

[Xebinon]

I WTB more Girl Genius, too. At least it is still updating regularly. A lot of webcomics are short lived. I don't know any others that fit that category that are still updating. Google might be your friend there.

Metrophor was a decent "thaumapunk" webcomic, sort of a combination steampunk/fantasy setting. It's not exactly over, but it's on "extended haitus" due to carpal tunnel syndrome. They hope to finish it, with someone else's hands if necessary, someday.

[Kriegshammer]

Don't know if someone already posted this somewhere, but if you want something more interactive, try one of these mini-games:
http://jet.ro/dismount/
I recommend Stair Dismount and Truck Dismount

[Shigy]

Stair dismount has always been awesome

[Mivat]

My little list:

Applegeeks

Wayfarer's Moon

Icanhascheezburger and sites contained therein (Ihasahotdog, Failblog etc).

F-16.net, for all your Viper-related info/news

Various Norwegian tech-sites, plus a few english ones. Add some norwegian newspapers, and you're all set.

Sadly, work gets in the way of wasting time, which sucks

[Regidoc]

Well, I like to read manga so you can try going to
http://www.onemanga.com/

It has a LOT of translated manga you can read, including some older ones. Then there is of course the link in my sig