August 09, 2008

You’re Bored, but Your Brain Is Tuned In. [Via]
posted by homunculus 15 years ago
  • Many many years ago I said to a friend, "I'm bored." She replied, "you're just not paying careful enough attention." I haven't been bored since.
  • My grandmother always said "an intelligent person is never bored". But then my grandmother never worked as an administrative assistant, either.
  • Word. I had completey given up caffeine, but I had to take it back up again when I took a desk job. I kept nodding off.
  • I always tell myself that, fairywench. Now that Al Gore has invented the Tubes I find it easier to not be bored, thank goodness.
  • "an intelligent person is never bored". And therein lies my problem.
  • Lin Yutang: Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.