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January 09, 2005
Progress bars
If you thought, watching progress bars was not very exciting, you could not be more wrong! Some people watch planes. Some watch trains. Some watch buildings. Some even watch homeless people. Why not progress bars? &*!$ing tourists.
Now back to progress bars… you can have 20, 50, running in one time. Two bottles of cola and you are off for the night. Every 1% (or 0.1% for big files) - you toast. You can make the window bigger and smaller, and than bigger again. The good thing about progress bars, is that they always animate in one direction (they only go up), after all, Progress must progress. Other than that, its definitely the most useless way to waste time.
Posted by Oleg Ivrii at January 9, 2005 07:06 PM
Comments
The only thing more interesting than watching progress bars is watching you drives defrag. It has all the benifits of the progress bar but you get to see all those lovely clusters shuffeled around your disk surface.
Posted by: Nicholas Engelking at January 10, 2005 03:56 PM
I don't know. Watching paint dry, grass grow, and linoleum curl are also of great interest.
Posted by: aSo at January 14, 2005 10:41 PM
Going to Starbucks and watching someone not drink coffee is also quite amusing.
Posted by: VLA at January 15, 2005 09:37 PM