Very cool, if true

Installing .NET on your machine would lead to your brain leaking out your ears far more quickly than inanity, trust me. :)

I don't suppose you guys have a TV there, do you? Last time I got stuck at a job where there were endless hours in which I didn't have to do anything, we had a TV in the operator office, and I would bring in my console gaming systems and work my way through various video games I was behind on. In fact, that's how I beat Suikoden II and Final Fantasy 9. My one coworker at the time actually got rather interested in FF9, and wanted me to tell him all sorts of things about the game. :)

Other ways I amuse myself at work is by picking fights with the coworkers (well, debate is more like it, but sometimes they get pretty heated), working on various web pages (I am always behind on www.mancer.net stuff) and, when all else fails, writing.

And gosh, it's really nice to randomly find someone else who knows about Usenet. I need to get back to reading Usenet; it's been ages since the news server on my primary shell account worked, and while I do have two other news servers I could use, I'm just lazy. Have you seen that Google now has tons of archives dating back to like '88 (or further, I can't remember) online?