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With all these new phones, tablets, etc. what's your favorite time waster?

Poll: With all these new phones, tablets, etc. what's your favorite time waster? Greedy Spiders 1 / 4% Temple Run 1 / 4% Angry Birds 5 / 21% Solitare or Spider Solitare 7 / 29% Other  (please specify) 10 / 42% 24 total votes

Patty Immortal Oct 11 2012, 12:55am Views: 1203 With all these new phones, tablets, etc. what's your favorite time waster? Mine is Spider Solitaire, but I do love Greedy Spiders. Or I would if I were any good at it. I get up to the level where there are two spiders and then my logic starts to fail me. But I'm pretty good using two decks on Spider Solitaire. Permanent address: Into the West

dernwyn Forum Admin / Moderator Oct 11 2012, 1:07am Views: 724 "Other". Reading and posting on TORn, of course! What, there's other stuff out there? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I desired dragons with a profound desire"

Starling Half-elven Oct 11 2012, 1:23am Views: 681 I've never heard of any of those apart from Angry Birds. YouTube is definitely my favourite time waster.

Patty Immortal Oct 11 2012, 1:24am Views: 686 I spend a lot of time there too./   Permanent address: Into the West

Starling Half-elven Oct 11 2012, 1:30am Views: 759 One of the things I love about YouTube is the way you can use it to learn more about someone or something, as well as just for fun. Often, when I am reading a book, I will look up clips about the subject. When I read Andre Agassi's autobiography, it was great to be able to watch clips of particular moments he mentioned in the book. I recently read a lovely compilation about Jennifer Paterson, of Two Fat Ladies fame. I hadn't seen the TV series for years, and had so much fun looking at that again. And, of course, there are all those long lost TV and film memories to enjoy again...

zarabia Tol Eressea Oct 11 2012, 6:12am Views: 723 Personalizing, and then re-personalizing my phone Besides solitaire, I waste a lot of time trimming music to ring-tone length and assigning different songs to different contacts...for all the many, many calls I don't get . Also, finding or taking the best (or most embarrassing, depending on my mood) photo of those contacts so they show up when they call or text. Change the wallpaper; those that come on the phone are much prettier than my own, but I prefer to use pictures I've taken of places that are meaningful to me. In other words, I mostly waste time in the truest sense of the phrase. But I have downloaded tracks from Spanish language CD's and I have been trying to re-learn some of the Spanish I've forgotten. It's muuuch easier to use my phone instead of a CD player, and it's with me whenever I have a some time to kill.

DanielLB Immortal Oct 11 2012, 7:05am Views: 698 TORn, of course! Although I've suddenly become obsessed with Tetris ... if I'm not on TORn, and I'm not doing any work ... you'll find me playing Tetris ... Want Hobbit Movie News? Hobbit Headlines of the Week!

Starling Half-elven Oct 11 2012, 7:30am Views: 679 Are you new around here? Don't think I've seen you before.

DanielLB Immortal Oct 11 2012, 7:47am Views: 759 Oh, I don't post that much. *snigger* I don't like to cause a scene when I'm here. Want Hobbit Movie News? Hobbit Headlines of the Week!

Starling Half-elven Oct 11 2012, 8:14am Views: 684 Neither do I I'm just posting for the sake of it now. It's a desperate (and futile) attempt to move myself closer to Valinor.

Patty Immortal Oct 11 2012, 3:08pm Views: 688 I watch a lot of British TV documentaries there... a large majority of them will probably never be available on DVD here or there. I loved the Two Fat Ladies and was given their TV series on DVD for Christmas one year. It has a "salute" to Jennifer--I wonder if that's the same thing that you saw on YouTube. Permanent address: Into the West

NottaSackville Valinor Oct 11 2012, 6:17pm Views: 635 Other - Towers N' Trolls Mrs. Notta, Notta, and the Nottettes all dig it! Be careful, it has also sucked in many other folks we've told it about. Notta Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville

Patty Immortal Oct 11 2012, 6:21pm Views: 661 I'm gonna hunt it up. If it sucks me in, it's notta problem... anything to get away from Spider Solitare and Greedy Spiders. I'm as tightly stuck to that as the little bugs are stuck to the spider's web in Greedy Spiders. Permanent address: Into the West

Starling Half-elven Oct 11 2012, 6:48pm Views: 614 No, I haven't seen that, but it sounds fun. I will have a look for it. I just watched a few episodes of the original TV series. The book I read was: Enjoy!: A Celebration Of Jennifer Paterson Tribute To A Fat Lady By Her Friends. It was one of those books that is great to dip in and out of.

Patty Immortal Oct 11 2012, 6:54pm Views: 618 I have listened to this... http://www.amazon.com/Spilling-Beans-C-Dickson-Wright/dp/1844565653/ref=tmm_abk_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1349981424&sr=8-1 Clarissa's autobiography on audiobook. She has really had an odd life. As I suppose you picked up from things she said on the show, she is a recovered alcoholic, and a fully qualified lawyer. She suffered from a very abusive father, who was a doctor, and the family, though well-to-do, were all living in terror of him. If you get a chance to read it, it is fascinating. Permanent address: Into the West

Alassëa Eruvande Valinor Oct 11 2012, 7:09pm Views: 620 Angry Birds I tried the Greedy Spiders game, but I sucked at it. My poor flies all got eaten. Right now, I'm on a quest to get three stars on all my AB levels. I've done it on 3 levels so far. I only have the original AB, Seasons, and Rio. I accidentally loaded Rio before realizing it cost *gasp* niney-nine cents! The other two were free. Now they have a game from the pigs' point of view. I'm waiting for a few more reviews before I get it, but it looks really cute. I am SMAUG! I kill when I wish! I am strong, strong, STRONG! My armor is like tenfold shields! My teeth like swords! My claws, spears! The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt! My wings, a hurricane! And my breath, death!

Starling Half-elven Oct 11 2012, 7:19pm Views: 644 Yes, I've read that one I found it very interesting. She has a second book as well, but that seems to be mostly about hunting, and the rural/urban conflict as she sees it, so I have avoided it.

Patty Immortal Oct 11 2012, 7:31pm Views: 599 Yeah, I passed on that one too./   Permanent address: Into the West

Patty Immortal Oct 11 2012, 7:34pm Views: 596 I have never played AB but I know it's popular. My bugs all die in greedy spiders past level 10. I'm hopeless at looking ahead, that's why I suck at chess. Permanent address: Into the West

NottaSackville Valinor Oct 11 2012, 9:08pm Views: 597 We'll trade - I'm going to look up Greedy Spiders And based on how much I play it, Towers N' Trolls really is a Notta problem! :) Notta Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville

NottaSackville Valinor Oct 11 2012, 9:11pm Views: 644 Oh you bad piggy! We LOVE that game! It requires you to build a contraption that conquers each level - and oh, the puzzle-solving involved. The only thing that I have to say against it is that when you go to play a previously-played level, you see the previously-played contraption. Thus, if two (or four, in the Notta household) people play the game, the first to play a level spoils it for the later ones. Notta Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville

Aunt Dora Baggins Immortal Oct 12 2012, 3:55am Views: 630 Mostly it's between TORn and facebook and tvtropes. TORn goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. But fb seems to have slowed me down a bit: Daniel LB got way ahead of me here. I don't play the games on fb, but I do like sharing entertaining stuff, especially the stuff I see from George Takei. And tvtropes has kept me up way past my bedtime on many occasions. I don't have a new phone or tablet, but I do like listening to books on my kindle, especially when I'm commuting and when I'm drifting off to beddy byes (but not at the same time). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories leleni at hotmail dot com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (This post was edited by Aunt Dora Baggins on Oct 12 2012, 3:56am)

NottaSackville Valinor Oct 12 2012, 11:25am Views: 1030 Uh oh - this greedy spiders thing is going to take a lot of my time! //   Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville

Patty Immortal Oct 12 2012, 12:07pm Views: 581 Do you play against other people? I think it's going to take me a little longer to figure out Towers n' Trolls. Greedy spiders (at least until you have to start freezing one spider while the other one moves) is pretty straightforward. Permanent address: Into the West

Donry Tol Eressea Oct 13 2012, 2:51am Views: 583 I don't play anything on my phone......I text away on it, that's about it....no tablet.....I have a Xbox 360 and a laptop. I don't play much on either these days! What's the matter, James? No glib remark? No pithy comeback?" www.onesecondleft.com @RDon1secleft http://donryfetor.blogspot.com/ @DonryFetor

Annael Immortal Oct 14 2012, 4:38pm Views: 475 I also spend a lot of time at sites like LOLcats and my new favorite, dog shaming dot com. The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives. - James Hillman, Healing Fiction * * * * * * * * * * NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967

Magpie Immortal Oct 14 2012, 6:59pm Views: 400 (literally) LOL at the dog site the first one (when I visited) was a little dodgy but the rest made me laugh pretty hard. LOTR soundtrack website ~ magpie avatar gallery TORn History Mathom-house ~ Torn Image Posting Guide

Patty Immortal Oct 15 2012, 2:23am Views: 400 I had to smile... Annael, I don't know any one as firm a dog lover as you. Permanent address: Into the West

NottaSackville Valinor Oct 17 2012, 1:25pm Views: 395 TnT is just a one-player game //   Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville

Annael Immortal Oct 19 2012, 1:42am Views: 690 I do love them We always had a dog growing up, mostly lab mixes, and labs are so loving & sweet. Then we had a half-retriever, half-shepherd, which is where I picked up my German shepherd love. Still prefer a big dog. The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives. - James Hillman, Healing Fiction * * * * * * * * * * NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967