For most of us, however, wasting time is an occasional endeavor remanded to those times when it is socially acceptable — kind of like belching or picking your nose (both of which can be excellent time wasters).
Wasting time while at work is not acceptable, but the true practitioner can waste time while making it look like heis doing something constructive. A doctoris waiting room, however, is a veritable cemetery of dead minutes and wasting time there is not only socially acceptable, it is expected.
Things are changing, however. Our gadgets are beginning to make time wasting and those who excel at it as rare as a great pastrami sandwich. iPods, iPhones, laptops, and other devices drag our work along with us and no place is safe for time wasting. Even the quiet, hallowed halls of the corporate john, once a bastion of silent idleness, now reverberate with cellphone ringtones, whispered conversations, and the occasion clickety-click of typed keyboards.
We at The Mac Observer believe it is time to fight the progression of purpose, the inundation of anti-idleness, the rampant disregard for time well spent doing nothing important. We believe that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, admittedly richer, but dull nonetheless.
To the Jack and Jills among you unwilling to to live a life devoid of void, a life removed from relaxation, an existence where existing isnit enough, we offer this installment of A COOL WASTE OF TIME.
Observe the lowly brick: an object that exists merely to fill a set of very limited purposes, primary of them is to be staked with other bricks to form a structure. Once stacked the brick remains there, satisfied with its lot in life. It does not aspire to become chief brick or a keystone. Where it is is where it will stay until something comes along and knocks it down.
What if a brick were a bit more mobile, would it then have aspirations of greatness? Probably not. In fact, a brick capable of moving would probably strive to not move, to lie down and become more like its brethren.
This was likely the impetus behind the creation of Bloxorz, a free and extremely addictive Shockwave game.
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