|
Source: (consider it)
|
Thread: Timewasters
|
lilBuddha
Shipmate
# 14333
|
Posted
So, we have snowdays and geoguessr; what other timewasters have you found?
Here is a new one: Land Lines
--------------------
I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
Posts: 17627 | From: the round earth's imagined corners | Registered: Dec 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
|
Posted
The "Drag" function is fun. And I just wound up 10 miles away from where I am at. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
# 4544
|
Posted
Yeah, I just wasted about ten minutes with Land Lines. Got a lot of Arizona- looks like you can find ANY shape in Arizona. The coolest thing that came up was Liberty Island, looking straight down on the Statue of Liberty. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
--------------------
"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
# 4544
|
Posted
Ooo! Ooo! Give this a whirl: Kaleidoscope Painter!
--------------------
"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Huia
Shipmate
# 3473
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Ooo! Ooo! Give this a whirl: Kaleidoscope Painter!
It's your fault I didn't get to bed at a reasonable hour last night ![[Biased]](wink.gif) .
Thanks for posting that - I love it.
Huia
--------------------
Charity gives food from the table, Justice gives a place at the table.
Posts: 10382 | From: Te Wai Pounamu | Registered: Oct 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
# 10192
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Ooo! Ooo! Give this a whirl: Kaleidoscope Painter!
Oooh! I remember that one from when I was first on the internet in the late 90s!
--------------------
"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
There are several "daily jigsaw" sites - I love them.
When I'm in the mood for Geoguesser I can have some very late nights indeed.
Does anyone else find you can be several continents away on one round, and within a few feet the next?
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
# 10192
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Roseofsharon:
Jigidi has been around for a few years, too.
JigZone is my preferred daily timewaster.
--------------------
"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
# 4544
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Ooo! Ooo! Give this a whirl: Kaleidoscope Painter!
Oooh! I remember that one from when I was first on the internet in the late 90s!
Yeah, I seem to remember seeing it at a UCLA site back around 2000. I assumed one of the Bruin nerds came up with it. I'm not sure if that is true.
--------------------
"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Penny S
Shipmate
# 14768
|
Posted
I use the geoguesser version that only hangs out in the UK. I find it curious how many times it arrives in a cul-de-sac in a boring modern estate, or, conversely, down a long and winding lane with passing spaces, and never lets me use my knowledge of the geology to guess where I am. There are lots of hilly bits about the islands, but it doesn't like them very much. (Except once, when it landed by a notable mountain in the west of Scotland.) It did once land by a roundabout on the way to my local Lidl, but usually chooses places where there is nothing distinguishable.
I take a screen grab of the starting position, go off to find some sort of notice, signpost or such, and then engage Google Maps and Street View to get within a few yards/metres of the start.
Posts: 5833 | Registered: May 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
DonLogan2
Shipmate
# 15608
|
Posted
226.2m away, BOOYAH!
--------------------
“I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth... "
Posts: 359 | From: the very depths | Registered: Apr 2010
| IP: Logged
|
|
Penny S
Shipmate
# 14768
|
Posted
1.3m - helped by it being at the very end of a footpath!
Posts: 5833 | Registered: May 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
lilBuddha
Shipmate
# 14333
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
I take a screen grab of the starting position
The small flag will also take you back to the start.
--------------------
I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
Posts: 17627 | From: the round earth's imagined corners | Registered: Dec 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
lilBuddha
Shipmate
# 14333
|
Posted
I've said of GeoGuessr before that I think it adapts to one's points accumulated during the game. I was playing on my mobile, not using any assistance, only encountering one road sign with lettering, spending <30sec on any map and coming within a few hundred miles at furthest. Then, for the last map, it drops me in a spot that cannot be moved from. No roads, no trails, just a couple of pale people climbing the hill towards the camera. So I took a wild guess, based on the light and plant types. Came within a few degrees latitude, but on the wrong side of the pond.
--------------------
I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
Posts: 17627 | From: the round earth's imagined corners | Registered: Dec 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Trudy Scrumptious
BBE Shieldmaiden
# 5647
|
Posted
In the spirit of getting whatever laughs you can in troubled times, I highly recommend wasting a few minutes on trumpdonald.org/
--------------------
Books and things.
I lied. There are no things. Just books.
Posts: 7428 | From: Closer to Paris than I am to Vancouver | Registered: Mar 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
# 10192
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
In the spirit of getting whatever laughs you can in troubled times, I highly recommend wasting a few minutes on trumpdonald.org/
I must be missing something -- I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to do (or what I was supposed to do)?
--------------------
"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
# 4544
|
Posted
Put your cursor on the horn and drag it around his head and his eyes will follow it. Then left click. The horn will blow Trump's comb-over, make him blink, and sometimes will spray him with confetti.
--------------------
"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
# 10192
|
Posted
I've tried it in Internet Explorer and Opera -- the trumpet bounces up and down, but that's all. My cursor can't get it to do anything.
![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
--------------------
"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
# 4544
|
Posted
Chrome?
--------------------
"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Golden Key
Shipmate
# 1468
|
Posted
Pigwidgeon--
Maybe check what permissions you have set for the page?
--------------------
Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
# 10192
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
Pigwidgeon--
Maybe check what permissions you have set for the page?
I tried that.
It looks like a cute time waster, but frankly not cute enough to install another web browser (I really didn't like Chrome when I tried it on my previous computer).
I guess I'll just have to buy my own trumpet and head to the White House...
--------------------
"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
Posts: 9835 | From: Hogwarts | Registered: Aug 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Trudy Scrumptious
BBE Shieldmaiden
# 5647
|
Posted
Yeah, it's mildly amusing, but not enough to be worth installing a whole new browser!
--------------------
Books and things.
I lied. There are no things. Just books.
Posts: 7428 | From: Closer to Paris than I am to Vancouver | Registered: Mar 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Mili
Shipmate
# 3254
|
Posted
I like completing these, especially the colour ones. They can be pretty addictive though nonograms .
To try to be a bit more productive with my free time I'm back on Duolingo Last year I did the French course. It's fun though you have to keep revising or doing language learning elsewhere to remember it all (at least I do!) This year I have started the Irish course. They're pretty good for a free website.
[ 02. February 2017, 09:38: Message edited by: Mili ]
Posts: 1015 | From: Melbourne, Australia | Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Printer-friendly view
