Right. I'm bored.

[teddywolf]

Tell me about something to do (online or offline) and give me a good reason to do it. Things I can't do soonish will be saved for future consideration.

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[kayre]

Help me figure out how to build a small mechanical-action pump (to operate a small fountain). My daughter wants to figure out a way to build a fountain that would operate for, say, 5 minutes, with no batteries or electricity. Volume could be very very small. Windup, counterweight-driven, anything-- the more elegant-looking, the better.

Why? because it's a challenge, and would help a teenager follow up on a spark of curiosity and creativity!

(found you reading callahanians/friends, btw.. we have a bunch of friends in common)

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Yup, I've seen you round :-)

I am not up on my mechanical engineering. That said, it occurs to me that a fillable resevoir that is placed high up in a fountain space would let gravity do the work. If you want something fancier I'd say have a resevoir of water that is fillable and sealable and use a pressurized air container on slow release to force the water up.

But like I said, I wouldn't be good at designing such, just thinking of a method or two.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

You could hack together a super soaker for the pressurization chamber. . .

[thunderstorms.livejournal.com]

I've done that before. In 8th grade, we were put into different groups and were given assignments. That was mine. It's hard and complicated and I would never want to re-live the hell of 7 8th graders trying to figure out where to put things.

I'm not a real engineer, but...

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Take a liter-and-a-half plastic water bottle, the tiny straw from a WD-40 bottle, and some tubing. Shrink-heat the tubing to mold to the lid of the bottle and to the straw. Turn the bottle upside-down and the water will take forever to get out. It'll also blow the tube off one end or the other if you don't bring a lot of duct tape into the project.

Now you don't even need a wind-up -- just a bucket, lots of duct tape, and some crud from the hardware store.

-not quite Mister Wizard, Dante

[magid.livejournal.com]

Build a sand castle, just because it's fun and involves splashing in the sea.

Or got to a park where there are kids playing and blow bubbles for them to chase.

Er, somehow I'm not thinking of online stuff right now, but I assume you're headed home...

[rosefox]

Investigate literacy volunteering in your area. (The "why" should be fairly self-explanatory.) Or did you mean a one-time thing?

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

In this case, a one- or few-times thing. Usually I'm quite busy; boredom is quite rare for me and currently only happens Sundays at work when I'm restricted in what I can do.

I've played too much Freecell and pinball.

[magid.livejournal.com]

For one-shot volunteering locally, there's PMD (People Making a Difference). The times I've volunteered there have been productive and fun.

[rosefox]

Handicrafts? Still fidgeting, but productive. *)

[anahata56.livejournal.com]

Sing me a song.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

I realize you're already home but I'll offer a couple ideas:

1. Bring two books. Whenever I only bring one book to work, I know I'll suddenly not want to look at it. With two books, there is a choice. Make sure the books are not about the same topic (eg. a satire and a how-to).
2. I'll ask Hector from my team if you can use the handheld Tetris game he leaves at his desk all the time. We all use it on my team (I have the killah high score on it now) and it uses one button to pause so you can take a call immediately.
3. Wanna borrow my Mac laptop? You can use it to surf or even to write that novel... so long as you transfer your work to some online drive space since it has no floppy drive.

-some quick ideas, Ps/d

[http://users.livejournal.com/kai_/]

Come visit me. That's definitely an offline activity.
A good reason: because it would be incredibly fun. I'm a cool gal who lives in a cool town.

I'm sure you can also think of some good reasons.

:)