Very slowly, methodically, even creatively filling over the entire sheet with the pencil until there is no white left. You can imagine what I do with an Etch-a-Sketch.
I moan and whine about how much my hand is cramping. Because I hardly ever use pen or pencil on paper for any project of length, I’ve lost all the muscle memory and fine muscle control and muscle stamina for useful handwriting
I dictate my many literary masterpieces to the Google keyboard of the cloud-god Google, so that Google might track each and all of my brilliant personal events each day
@phendrick@RogerWilco This. Then write down an eqaution to cause a cataclysmic series of global earthquakes to obliterate the mole people before they can overthrow me.
Bwahaha.
Wrap the paper around the pen and declare a winner. Then stick the pen through the paper and write about the deception (the conspiracy) the paper has put on the rock for all these years.
Use the pen and paper to make a list of all the parts of a phone that you can remember. Flip the paper over and draw blueprints for a phone, then build one real quick. Problem solved.
@capnjb waitwaitwait, are you selling Penis Mightiers? I’m interested in your product, but have had issues with substandard quality in the past (wasted a pretty penny, I don’t mind tellin’ ya!). If your product really works, I’ll order a dozen!
Very slowly, methodically, even creatively filling over the entire sheet with the pencil until there is no white left. You can imagine what I do with an Etch-a-Sketch.
@stolicat Um, I think I’d rather not.
@stolicat if you can see the scribing frame, you’ve gone too far
@simplersimon that’s the idea - all mystery is revealed.
Go for a walk with the pup!
Play dots.
@mike808
@mike808 @PocketBrain
Never heard of playing “dots”, google to the rescue!
I might have said hang-man if I didn’t love drawing.
┐(゚ ~゚ )┌
@mike808 oh I love that one. Passed many hours in car rides as a kid with my brother playing that.
I moan and whine about how much my hand is cramping. Because I hardly ever use pen or pencil on paper for any project of length, I’ve lost all the muscle memory and fine muscle control and muscle stamina for useful handwriting
/giphy “illegible handwriting”
@f00l
Ok, that finished compacted vehicle does resemble my handwriting.
@f00l
/giphy illegible giphy
@f00l Mmmm Hungry!
Oh, wait! I left my Swiss watch on the front seat!
@f00l
I bet IF that car could feel things it would ALSO be hurting as much as your hand would IF you tried writing a paragraph or two.
@f00l how are YOU not writing a haiku?
@njfan
I dictate my many literary masterpieces to the Google keyboard of the cloud-god Google, so that Google might track each and all of my brilliant personal events each day
Go for a bicycle ride. Play on my computers. Fix my VWs. The stuff I normally do when not making a phone call or sending text messages.
Write down a mathematical equation that will ignite the atmosphere.
Then plot my future as ruler of the mole people from underground caves & bunkers…
@RogerWilco “ignite the atmosphere” – Ah, you must be working with the equation for Newton’s Law of Cooling (works with heating, also).
@phendrick @RogerWilco This. Then write down an eqaution to cause a cataclysmic series of global earthquakes to obliterate the mole people before they can overthrow me.
Bwahaha.
@mehcuda67 @RogerWilco For that, how about E = mc^2, practically and judiciously applied and delivered (say, by a B-52 named Enola).
@mehcuda67 @phendrick @RogerWilco
“It’s 8:15. That’s the time that it’s always been.”
Depends on how much time i need to pass. Doodles will work for may be 10 minutes then i’d start writing
Draw schematics for a single-supply op-amp relaxation oscillator.
Make chess set (or checkers) with what’s at hand.
Entertaining for me, and for others when finished.
Wrap the paper around the pen and declare a winner. Then stick the pen through the paper and write about the deception (the conspiracy) the paper has put on the rock for all these years.
@hchavers Oooh, meta-rock-paper-scissors politics conspiracy! Cool!
Take a nap
Fold the paper into origami. And then depending on what type of pen, take it apart and make it into a makeshift weapon and/or flying toy.
Make a list of all the shit I should be doing instead of sitting and making a list.
Sounds a bit like prison, in which case, those items could make great shanks! I seem to remember a mythbusters episode about that.
KuoH
Grocery list.
@romellex or To-Do List
Daydream
Write down all the things I wish I was doing instead of writing.
I would make lists - things to get finished, shopping, things to buy at MEH
Use the pen and paper to make a list of all the parts of a phone that you can remember. Flip the paper over and draw blueprints for a phone, then build one real quick. Problem solved.
I’m slightly disappointed the question wasn’t written as a Haiku
@earl_danger
You have no iPhone.
Just some paper and a pen.
What are you doing?
Winter is over
Time for sunshine to kiss earth
Cherry blossom time
@earl_danger
Handwriting cramps hand
Mind and hand cower in pain.
Sentience is lost.
Hunt ostriches. Pen is mightier than the sword.
@capnjb
Does the term “hunt ostriches” refer to your chosen activity, or does that term refer to an aggressive and cunning variety of ostrich?
IE: art thou the hunter, or art thou the prey?
@f00l Excellent question!
@capnjb No ostriches in this area - I have already systematically eliminated every one that I encountered.
@macromeh You must have a pen.
@capnjb @macromeh
How odd. I had been told they had eliminated you.
@f00l @macromeh This is what I want you to know.
@capnjb waitwaitwait, are you selling Penis Mightiers? I’m interested in your product, but have had issues with substandard quality in the past (wasted a pretty penny, I don’t mind tellin’ ya!). If your product really works, I’ll order a dozen!
@806D2701 @capnjb
meh stuff is stupid
but how else can I waste time
doodles on paper
Write fan fiction about Toussaint Louverture.
Make and fly paper airplanes.
Hello Diary
There’s no electricity
This’ll have to do
@806D2701 I like that!
Umm… do the obvious phone substitution - write a letter!
If there’s also other willing people around I’d play D&D.
I hate the damn phone
All good with paper and pen
I thought there was wine
Origami and body art.