What's a good SFW site to kill boredom?

[GilloD]

No games, boss is in. Blogs are okay.

Things I read daily: Gawker and the Gawker network. Kottke.org. Digg. Waxy.org. Metafilter.com (And Ask/MetaTalk), RockPaperShotgun

Gimmie some fun things to read

[Tauntaun]

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[CajoleJuice]

read my short story

http://thesomewhatmanlynerd.wordpress.com/my-sci-fi-short-story/

[Beardo]

www.digg.com

[Kestastrophe]

http://www.poopreport.com/Stories/index.html

[Flannel Boy]

read my short story

http://thesomewhatmanlynerd.wordpress.com/my-sci-fi-short-story/

Ouch! Lots of white text on a black background makes my eyes hurt.

That was a good, well-written story, but the twist lacked plausibility.

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Constructing a large city for tens of millions of people would be such an important and costly project that it wouldn't be left to whims of a person who'd needlessly add human emotion and frailty to the robots. Making robots that sleep, take showers, and goof around at work like humans would be terribly inefficient. Such a large city wouldn't be built if there weren't human that needed it immediately; thus, it would make much more sense to build robots that could work for 24 hours a day and feel no bitter emotions.

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[CajoleJuice]

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Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch, I admit. But that's why I tried to have the guy in charge of it all seem a bit crazy. And thanks.

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[Flannel Boy]

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[GilloD]

read my short story

http://thesomewhatmanlynerd.wordpress.com/my-sci-fi-short-story/

Ouch! Lots of white text on a black background makes my eyes hurt.

That was a good, well-written story, but the twist lacked plausibility.

spoiler

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Constructing a large city for tens of millions of people would be such an important and costly project that it wouldn't be left to whims of a person who'd needlessly add human emotion and frailty to the robots. Making robots that sleep, take showers, and goof around at work like humans would be terribly inefficient. Such a large city wouldn't be built if there weren't human that needed it immediately; thus, it would make much more sense to build robots that could work for 24 hours a day and feel no bitter emotions.

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The "sleeping" is chargign and the shower is probs. a disinfect or something, right? Cajole, you should use that build an allegory- How we ascribe some much existential sensation to our daily routines when in fact they're little more than utilitarian necessity.

[Flannel Boy]

read my short story

http://thesomewhatmanlynerd.wordpress.com/my-sci-fi-short-story/

Ouch! Lots of white text on a black background makes my eyes hurt.

That was a good, well-written story, but the twist lacked plausibility.

spoiler

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Constructing a large city for tens of millions of people would be such an important and costly project that it wouldn't be left to whims of a person who'd needlessly add human emotion and frailty to the robots. Making robots that sleep, take showers, and goof around at work like humans would be terribly inefficient. Such a large city wouldn't be built if there weren't human that needed it immediately; thus, it would make much more sense to build robots that could work for 24 hours a day and feel no bitter emotions.

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The "sleeping" is chargign and the shower is probs. a disinfect or something, right? Cajole, you should use that build an allegory- How we ascribe some much existential sensation to our daily routines when in fact they're little more than utilitarian necessity.

Spoiler that shit!

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Swapping battery packs would make more sense than shutting down the robots at night to charge. Ignoring that, it isn't sensible to use robots that are about as efficient as Homer Simpson:

That day Riley was running fiber-optic wiring through a new building, and the work was going more slowly than he could ever remember. His fellow laborers were more apt to take breaks and bullshit, not taking their foreman’s warnings seriously.

And obviously our daily routines are necessary, but we still obtain pleasure from them. Eating and sleeping are enjoyable and satisfying.

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[CajoleJuice]

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Maybe I should just elaborate more the point that the guy in charge of building the city is living out a sort of twisted fantasy with these robots.

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[Flannel Boy]

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Maybe I should just elaborate more the point that the guy in charge of building the city is living out a sort of twisted fantasy with these robots.

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Nobody would put a guy in charge of building an entire city just so that he could live out his fantasies. The investors, and there would be need for investors, wouldn't be happy watching their city being built slowly just so some tard could play god.

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[CajoleJuice]

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Did I say in charge of building the city? I meant building the city just because he can.

I guess this is why you're becoming a lawyer.I hate you already. 

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[Flannel Boy]

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Did I say in charge of building the city? I meant building the city just because he can.

I guess this is why you're becoming a lawyer.I hate you already. 

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Building a city capable of supporting 100 million people would cost trillions of dollars; you'd have to explain how one person would have the power, money, and autonomy to build such a city.

And I swear that I don't have Asperger's,

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[Great Rumbler]

read my short story

http://thesomewhatmanlynerd.wordpress.com/my-sci-fi-short-story/

Or he can read my long story!

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/1889956/1/Ruins_of_a_Forgotten_Earth
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2324504/1/Servants_of_the_Red_Planet
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2414012/1/Dreams_of_an_Uncertain_Future [currently unfinished]

[Tauntaun]

read my short story

http://thesomewhatmanlynerd.wordpress.com/my-sci-fi-short-story/

Or he can read my long story!

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/1889956/1/Ruins_of_a_Forgotten_Earth
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2324504/1/Servants_of_the_Red_Planet
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2414012/1/Dreams_of_an_Uncertain_Future [currently unfinished]

Irony much? 

[Great Rumbler]

read my short story

http://thesomewhatmanlynerd.wordpress.com/my-sci-fi-short-story/

Or he can read my long story!

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/1889956/1/Ruins_of_a_Forgotten_Earth
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2324504/1/Servants_of_the_Red_Planet
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2414012/1/Dreams_of_an_Uncertain_Future [currently unfinished]

Irony much? 

I'll finish it one of these days.  :'(

[tiesto]

rooshv.com
roissy.wordpress.com

2 DC pickup artists who have some interesting insights into the male/female dynamic, travel stories, etc.

[Fragamemnon]

When I am REALLY bored, I will go to my local network news site (which has comments set up for the news stories they post) and troll the conservative neanderthals that live in my backwards state. It's fun-most of them have obviously not used the internet very much and its very easy to agitate them-with the added bonus of the site not being well moderated, which lets me do things like insult their children and beliefs with near complete impunity.

[Positive Touch]

When I am REALLY bored, I will go to my local network news site (which has comments set up for the news stories they post) and troll the conservative neanderthals that live in my backwards state. It's fun-most of them have obviously not used the internet very much and its very easy to agitate them-with the added bonus of the site not being well moderated, which lets me do things like insult their children and beliefs with near complete impunity.

my mom actually does the same thing. 

[Tauntaun]

read my short story

http://thesomewhatmanlynerd.wordpress.com/my-sci-fi-short-story/

Or he can read my long story!

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/1889956/1/Ruins_of_a_Forgotten_Earth
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2324504/1/Servants_of_the_Red_Planet
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2414012/1/Dreams_of_an_Uncertain_Future [currently unfinished]

Irony much? 

I'll finish it one of these days.  :'(

I was just lulling at the title of the story and it's current state of completion. 

[Great Rumbler]

read my short story

http://thesomewhatmanlynerd.wordpress.com/my-sci-fi-short-story/

Or he can read my long story!

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/1889956/1/Ruins_of_a_Forgotten_Earth
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2324504/1/Servants_of_the_Red_Planet
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2414012/1/Dreams_of_an_Uncertain_Future [currently unfinished]

Irony much? 

I'll finish it one of these days.  :'(

I was just lulling at the title of the story and it's current state of completion. 

Yeah, the title does accurately describe both the events in the story and the reality of writing the book itself, though it wasn't intentional. This March will mark the 5th anniversary of when I started writing it.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I go to erowid.org and laugh at all the OD'ers

[FatalT]

I go to erowid.org and laugh at all the OD'ers

Go to www.waytoomany.com next. Their forums are hilarious. I swear those people are probably 11 or 12 posting about taking drugs.