Long ago I heard about a project that intended to connect all the computers in the world and use them to decode the electromagnetic signals coming from the outer space. It had something to do with all the stuff involving alien life. If they send us a message, we must be prepared, although that's a little bit like looking at your cell phone all the time, waiting a call from Angelina Jolie, even though she doesn't know you at all. Well, the thing worked via some kind of screensaver that decoded signals while you were not using your machine. Your computer helped to illuminate the mysteries of the universe while you were having a good time in the bathroom.
I don’t know if the project is still active, but taking advantage of the computer’s millions of time-outs was fucking awesome. Even if preparing coffee just takes two minutes, hours are made out of minutes and if a million computers work every day during that two minutes, you have more than 33,000 hours, almost four years of everyday work. It’s estimated that there are a billion computers working worldwide.
OK, we’re talking shit. Those calculations are like thinking that if you collect all the coins that people lose on the beach you won’t have to work again in your entire life--neither you nor your children. But those lost coins...nobody is going to find them ALL. It’s the same with time. We misspend it. We watch stupid TV shows, we talk about weather, or we google image search wrinkled meatloaf just because. We misspend it. That’s all.
That said, how much time have you spent last week on one of these “social networks”? I’m sure that it’s less than a year ago but, still, you’ve spent some time. No doubt. And I’m sure too that you haven’t done anything useful with it, because that's not what they're made for. Instead, you’ve been opening fortune cookies or figuring out what band of the 90s best represents your soul. That’s OK but if what you want is losing time like a pro, enter Facebook’s group The Lying Down Game. The game consists of taking photos lying on the floor, feet pointing down and your arms on both sides. “You must be as if you were standing on your feet,” says creator Gary Clarkson, a tile seller from the south of England.
Gary says that at the beginning, this was just a game between him and his friends: they asked the first jerk they saw on the street to lie down on the floor to see what happened. Over time they began to take photos in action and one day, one of them had the brilliant idea of creating a group in Facebook. Suddenly, it all exploded. As I’m writing this, the group has more than 43,000 associates and there are 10,047 photos of people looking like assholes in the strangest places you can imagine. I bet that if you look for it right now, there will be many more. We could start calculating our lost time again, but it would be pointless. Soon, it will amount to centuries.
JUANJO VILLALBA
did the brits fuck up jfk's birthday and have to redo it?
Posted by: yancy | 03/08/2009 at 20:23
the guy in the plane propeller is awesome. he took the game to a new level
Posted by: vagabond | 03/08/2009 at 20:23
I can't blame the man for wearing the Scream mask. Even gravity couldn't make his dick look normal-sized.
Posted by: Bonner | 03/08/2009 at 20:24
the guy in the mask is a total douche. nobody wants to see picture of his flopping dick... be more creative
Posted by: Catherine | 03/08/2009 at 20:25
yeah facebook and shit like that is sort of bullshit time consuming etc.that s why i started fucking with this blog its a lot more fun and i hate everyone in my city anyways
Posted by: dem | 03/08/2009 at 20:34
You should submit the "felled a giant" Don't to the group. You know, give something back and all that jazz.
Posted by: TK | 03/08/2009 at 20:44
of course i had to google image search wrinkled meatloaf.
extremely disappointing, although there was a really gross looking wild mushroom meatloaf photo...
Posted by: k-rag | 03/08/2009 at 22:20
i was thinking "what the fuck?"
Posted by: din-din | 03/08/2009 at 22:42
the best part is the word "game"
"the lying down GAME"
hah-hahah-ahah-h
Posted by: din-din | 03/08/2009 at 22:44
this is the best fucking thing i've ever fucking seen since fucking ever.
Posted by: zero | 05/08/2009 at 02:57
I played that game for approx 9 hours last night.
Posted by: Uprisen | 05/08/2009 at 09:56
hilarious, i dont care if im wasting my life watching this rubbish it is solid gold.
Posted by: time to kill | 05/08/2009 at 21:58
Boost that jet enginge captain!
Posted by: Archie | 05/08/2009 at 22:42
re: I played that game for approx 9 hours last night.
aaaahahhaha
Posted by: Leslie | 06/08/2009 at 00:15
I will definitely take part in this facebook group. Time well wasted.
Posted by: Wenz | 06/08/2009 at 18:59
Laying down on the street? I do that almost every night... thanks for letting me know theres a facebook group for it! Makes me feel so much better and of course less weird.!!!
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Posted by: S K | 07/08/2009 at 18:24
this is almost kinda sweet
Posted by: lou | 08/08/2009 at 00:02
Michael Jackson is being ripped off again...
Posted by: jermajesty | 31/08/2009 at 16:25