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Patty
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Oct 11 2012, 12:55am
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With all these new phones, tablets, etc. what's your favorite time waster?
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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.
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dernwyn
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Oct 11 2012, 1:07am
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Reading and posting on TORn, of course!
What, there's other stuff out there?
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Starling
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Oct 11 2012, 1:23am
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I've never heard of any of those
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apart from Angry Birds.
YouTube is definitely my favourite time waster.
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Patty
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Oct 11 2012, 1:24am
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I spend a lot of time there too./
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Starling
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Oct 11 2012, 1:30am
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One of the things I love about YouTube
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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...
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zarabia
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Oct 11 2012, 6:12am
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Personalizing, and then re-personalizing my phone
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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.
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DanielLB
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Oct 11 2012, 7:05am
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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 ...
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Starling
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Oct 11 2012, 7:30am
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Don't think I've seen you before. 
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DanielLB
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Oct 11 2012, 7:47am
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*snigger*
I don't like to cause a scene when I'm here.
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Starling
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Oct 11 2012, 8:14am
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I'm just posting for the sake of it now. It's a desperate (and futile) attempt to move myself closer to Valinor. 
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Patty
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Oct 11 2012, 3:08pm
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I watch a lot of British TV documentaries there...
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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.
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NottaSackville
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Oct 11 2012, 6:17pm
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Mrs. Notta, Notta, and the Nottettes all dig it! Be careful, it has also sucked in many other folks we've told it about.
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Patty
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Oct 11 2012, 6:21pm
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I'm gonna hunt it up. If it sucks me in, it's notta problem...
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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.
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Starling
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Oct 11 2012, 6:48pm
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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.
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Patty
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Oct 11 2012, 6:54pm
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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.
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Oct 11 2012, 7:09pm
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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.
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Starling
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Oct 11 2012, 7:19pm
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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.
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Patty
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Oct 11 2012, 7:31pm
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Yeah, I passed on that one too./
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Patty
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Oct 11 2012, 7:34pm
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I have never played AB but I know it's popular.
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My bugs all die in greedy spiders past level 10. I'm hopeless at looking ahead, that's why I suck at chess.
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NottaSackville
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Oct 11 2012, 9:08pm
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We'll trade - I'm going to look up Greedy Spiders
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And based on how much I play it, Towers N' Trolls really is a Notta problem! :)
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NottaSackville
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Oct 11 2012, 9:11pm
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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.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Oct 12 2012, 3:55am
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Mostly it's between TORn and facebook and tvtropes.
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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).
(This post was edited by Aunt Dora Baggins on Oct 12 2012, 3:56am)
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NottaSackville
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Oct 12 2012, 11:25am
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Uh oh - this greedy spiders thing is going to take a lot of my time! //
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Patty
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Oct 12 2012, 12:07pm
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Do you play against other people?
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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.
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Donry
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Oct 13 2012, 2:51am
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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!
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