As mentioned previously we all have Mumps. As a result we’re finding it difficult to get any work done (as you tend to feel light-headed/dozy/generally crap most of the time) and insanely bored.
Various methods of alleviating of this boredom have been employed in our house over the past while, so I thought I’d share:
- Playing Risk and following Eddie Izzard‘s advice about which continents you really have to plumb for
- Playing Monopoly — the English Board version
- The Bubble Game, originally arrived at via Elmyra’s LJ
- BlastBilliards
- Reading far too much of the web, but then failing to blog about it
- Watching some fantastic flash animations including The Everyone Else Has More Sex Than Me Bunny (via NoVisAnima) and the Suicidal Lemmings Video
- Playing mesmerizing but incomprehensible games like Grow, Vanilla and Tontie
- Updates:
- Enjoying the hamper of goodies our friends delivered as well as the suspicion that our neighbours think something really weird is going on, as people keep coming to the door, ringing the doorbell, putting down a package and then running back to the end of the path and shouting threats/condolences/jibes/jokes at us when we answer
- Roadies also warrants a mention — it’s a bit like The Incredible Machine although with far fewer levels 😉 Top score so far is 11375 upon completion
- Enjoying the gorgeous bread that Tony made for us and delivered. Hopefully he’ll take this as a hint to start blogging again and post the recipe
- To be expanded as the boredom continues…
Posted by Meri @ 2:05 PM on November 18, 2004
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November 18th, 2004 at 3:56 PM
Try making a Weird Balloon(TM). Take 3 balloons – uninflated. Give them all a good stretch. Stuff two balloons inside the third, so that the tops are still sticking out. (Note what you want is balloon A containing B and C, not A containing B containing C). It may help to roll the balloons up into long tubes before stuffing them in and/or using the blunt end of a pencil.
Blow up one of the inner balloons to about the size of a grapefruit and tie it off. Gently poke it completely inside its enclosing balloon, while keeping the other inner balloon still sticking out a bit. Fill this other inner balloon with water until it’s the size of an apple, tie it off and poke it completely inside the outer balloon.
Now blow up the outer balloon. This may get tricky if the water stage above let water into the outer balloon, as this may tend to stick the balloons to each other which is a Bad Thing. You want to stop blowing when the water balloon can almost move around freely. Tie this off.
Throw to your friends, with some spin if you’re feeling evil. You will probably conclude that it’s a Weird Balloon(TM).
This was invented by me during my first year at college when I was bored one night.
You could also try something like Senate House Passage (or whichever local variant applies to you).
Hope you’re feeling better soon.
November 18th, 2004 at 3:57 PM
Gibber! The link around Senate House Passage was filtered out on submission. Here it is, unclickable:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~pgc104/shp.html
November 19th, 2004 at 4:27 PM
tontie is the most addictive game ever. i used to play the v.0 game a lot and never knew there was a new version. i dont like it as much tbh.
i’ve lost the screenshot but i think my best score was around 14000.
found your blog from a reply to the 1st year comp_sci mailing list, a very amusing blog that i’ve added to my dailies – even if you haven’t =P.
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