Desktop Hijinks

If you�re the sort of obsessive multitasker who is typing, exercising, urinating, and/or driving while you�re reading this, then Computer Waiting Games is for you. Hal Bowman�s book of ultrabrief activities aims to fill those agonizing seconds you might otherwise waste staring at the progress bar on your Download Manager. Learn to play power strip […]

If you�re the sort of obsessive multitasker who is typing, exercising, urinating, and/or driving while you�re reading this, then Computer Waiting Games is for you. Hal Bowman�s book of ultrabrief activities aims to fill those agonizing seconds you might otherwise waste staring at the progress bar on your Download Manager. Learn to play power strip Russian roulette, take the keyboard �Scrapple� challenge, draw flip cartoons on your Rolodex, and much, much more. The next frontier: making proactive use of elevator rides.

Computer Waiting Games: Things to Do While Downloading, Processing, or Crashing, by Hal Bowman (Quirk Books, $15).

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