Chicagoist: You Know You're Not Really Doing Work Today...

This is Awkward

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:04:09 -0600

How dare they try and make me useful!

spookhatespuppies

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:55:14 -0600

@This is awkward: Yeah, I just saw this Wired Science special on PBS where the guy that invented that "ESP" game said that over 9 billion man hours a year are wasted on Solitare, so he's trying to harness all that "downtime" into useful searches, improving OCR recognition, and translating languages. This game is just the first in a long series of "useful" games.

This is Awkward

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:30:09 -0600

Oh Chicagoist...why do you know me so well? Though I am a confessed Text Twist addict, I'll check this out for some time wasting as well. The folks over at G4 were also nice enough to inform all of us that google now has some "tagging" game where you are matched with a random online partner and you get points for the crazy tags you can put on google images. Just sayin..

spookhatespuppies

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:12:50 -0600

Right after I'm done reading the Chicagoist it's Warcraftapalooza for me!

Ferdy

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:09:55 -0600

I was getting good at it, but I have no idea how I'm getting scores.

dave

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:13:38 -0600

Damn you, Websense!

Spook

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:10:39 -0600

Oh yes I am! smirk ;-) actually I am cleaning out a office full of old news papers!

Spook

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:09:26 -0600

Oh yes I am! smirk ;-) actually I am cleaning out a office full of old news papers!