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Things To Do When You’re Bored

Written and maintained by (@jasonmanheim)

  • Stumble upon something new.
  • Defend your realm against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends.
  • Smile at the mirror so big you scare yourself.
  • Try harder.
  • Pour a glass of milk and blow bubbles with a straw.
  • Make a green smoothie.
  • Go hunting for real Smurfs.
  • Carve realistic looking teeth out of raw almonds.
  • Clean your belly button.
  • Chop firewood.
  • Learn what it takes to become a REAL NINJA!
  • Make friends with a neighbor and then ask them if you can borrow $500.
  • Do drugs.
  • Barbecue.
  • Annihilate some Horde on insane difficulty.
  • Create a WordPress blog.
  • Argue with yourself.
  • Write poetry.
  • Crawl everywhere for the next hour.
  • Put together a puzzle.
  • Make sure your passwords are as secure as possible.
  • Bake.
  • Climb a tree.
  • Scream. Loud. Really loud.
  • Learn how to use GitHub for Mac.
  • Clean your computer desktop.
  • Cry.
  • Learn a new word.
  • Have sex with something…or, someone.
  • Teach yourself how to code.
  • Free-write about the first word or phrase that comes to your mind.
  • Make yourself some Kimchi (Kim Chee).
  • Listen to music.
  • Draw.
  • Watch some movie trailers.
  • Dance, Magic Dance.
  • See how many beers you can drink in 20 minutes.
  • Eat an entire box of Fruity Pebbles.
  • Overclock your CPU.
  • Feed the squirrels.
  • Read some of the best web comics (Cyanide & Happiness, xkcd, The Oatmeal, Hyperbole and a Half, Axe Cop, Poorly Drawn Lines).
  • Make prank phone calls to everyone on your Facebook friends list.
  • Burn things with a magnifying glass.
  • Make a magnifying glass out of a block of ice.
  • Build a pyramid.
  • Try to do 100 pushups.
  • Decay.
  • Grow.
  • Read a book.
  • Relax to some soothing white noise.
  • Start an edible garden.
  • Go for a bike ride.
  • Drink all of the whisky.
  • Buy a pet and try to get it drunk.
  • Re-read the Age of Apocalypse series.
  • Come up with a comedy routine.
  • Have a solo hot dog eating contest.
  • Make ice cream.
  • Take a bubble bath.
  • Learn a card trick.
  • Google yourself.
  • Invent a secret code and leave people messages.
  • Use your imagination.
  • Draw a maze.
  • Buy a new iPhone/iPad game.
  • Follow me on Google+.
  • Take a cold shower.
  • Stop being bored.
  • Shave your head.
  • Rearrange a room in your house.
  • Write a book in a day. NaNoWriMo be damned.
  • Make a to-do list for the week.
  • Watch a TED Talk.
  • Listen to an audiobook.
  • Learn to play a new instrument.
  • Go swimming.
  • Watch the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
  • Invent a board (bored) game.
  • Eat ice cream.
  • Take the Mensa Workout IQ quiz.
  • Get a tattoo.