Ask around for a spare disk. Offer $2. Keep asking until someone agrees. Then, pull a disk out of your pocket and say, "Oops, I forgot."
Ask the person Weiter to Du if they know how to tap into top-secret pentagon files.
Assign a musical note to every key (ie. the Löschen key is A Flat, the B key is F sharp, etc.). Whenever Du hit a key, hum its note loudly. Write an entire paper this way.
Attempt to eat your computer's mouse.
Before anyone else is in the lab, connect each computer to different screen than the one it's set up with.
Borrow someone else's keyboard Von reaching over, saying "Excuse me, mind if I borrow this for a sec?", unplugging the keyboard & taking it.
Bring a chainsaw, but don't use it. If anyone asks why Du have it, say "Just in case..." mysteriously.
Bring an small tape player with a tape of really absurd sound effects.
Bring in a bunch of magnets and have fun.
Bring some dry ice & make it look like your computer is smoking.
Come into the computer lab wearing several endangered species of Blumen in your hair. Smile incessantly. Type a sentence, then laugh happily, exclaim "You're such a marvel!!", and KISS the screen. Repeat this after every sentence. As your ecstasy mounts, also hug the keyboard. Finally, hug your neighbor, then the computer assistant, and walk out.
Come to the lab wearing several layers of socks. Remove shoes and place them of oben, nach oben of the monitor. Remove socks layer Von layer and drape them around the monitor. Exclaim sudden haiku about the aesthetic beauty of cotton on plastic.
Draw a picture of a woman (or man) on a piece of paper, tape it to your monitor. Try to seduce it. Act like it hates Du and then complain loudly that women (men) are worthless.
Enter the lab, undress, and start staring at other people as if they're crazy while typing.
Every time Du press Return and there is processing time required, pray "Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease," and scream "YES!" when it finishes.
If Du have long hair, take a typing break, look for teilt, split ends, cut them and deposit them on your neighbor's keyboard as Du leave.
If you're sitting in a swivel chair, spin around Singen "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" whenever there is processing time required.
Keep looking at invisible bugs and trying to swat them.
Laugh hysterically, shout "You will all perish in flames!!!" and continue working.
Laugh uncontrollably for about 3 Minuten & then suddenly stop and look suspiciously at everyone who looks at you.
Light candles in a kreis around your terminal before starting.
Log on, wait a sec, then get a frightened look on your face and scream "NO!!! They've found me!" and bolt.
Make a loud noise of hitting the same key over and over again until Du see that your neighbor is noticing (You can hit the Weltraum bar so your fill isn't affected). Then look at your neighbor's keyboard. Hit his/her Löschen key several times, erasing an entire word.
Make a small ritual sacrifice to the computer before Du turn it on.
Play "Pong" for hours on the most powerful computer in the lab.
Point at the screen. Chant in a made up language while making elaborate hand gestures for a Minute oder two. Press return oder the mouse, then leap back and yell "COVEEEEERRRRRR!" peek up from under the table, walk back to the computer and say. "Oh, good. It worked this time," and calmly start to type again.
Pretend it's the computer and look really lost.
Print out the complete works of Shakespeare, then when its all done (two days later) say that all Du wanted was one line.
Pull out a pencil. Start Schreiben on the screen. Complain that the lead doesn't work.
Put a large, gold-framed portrait of the British Royal Family on your schreibtisch and loudly proclaim that it inspires you.
Put a straw in your mouth and put your hands in your pockets. Type Von hitting the keys with the straw.
Quietly walk into the computer lab with a Black and Decker chainsaw, rev that baby up, and then walk up to the nearest person and say, "Give me that computer oder you'll be feeding my pet krokodil for the Weiter week".
Remove your disk from the drive and hide it. Go to the lab monitor and complain that your computer ate your disk. (For special effects, put some Elmer's Glue on oder around the disk drive. Claim that the computer is drooling.)
Run into the computer lab, shout "Armageddon is here!!!!!", then calmly sit down and begin to type.
See who's online. Send a total stranger a talk request. Talk to them like you've known them all your lives. Hangup before they geta chance to figure out you're a total stranger.
Sit and stare at the screen, biting your nails noisily. After doing this for a while, spit them out at the feet of the person Weiter to you.
Stare at the person's Weiter to your's screen, look really puzzled, burst out laughing, and say "You did that?" loudly. Keep laughing, grab your stuff and leave, howling as Du go.
Stare at the screen, grind your teeth, stop, look at the person Weiter to grinding. Repeat procedure, making sure Du never provoke the person enough to let them blow up, as this releases tension, and it is far Mehr effective to let them linger.
Start making out with the person at the terminal Weiter to Du (It helps if Du know them, but this is also a great way to make new friends).
Take the keyboard and sit under the computer. Type up your paper like this. Then go to the lab supervisor and complain about the bad working conditions.
Try to stick a Nintendo patrone into the 3 1/2 disc drive, when it doesn't work, get the supervisor.
Two words: Tesla Coil.
Type frantically, often stopping to look at the person Weiter to Du evilly.
Type on VAX for a while. Suddenly start cursing for 3 Minuten at everything bad about your life. Then stop and continue typing.
Use Interactive Send to make passes at people Du don't know.
When doing calculations, pull out an abacus and say that sometimes the old ways are best.
When Du are on an IBM, and when Du turn it on, ask loudly where the smiling apfel, apple face is when Du turn on one of those.
When your computer is turned off, complain to the monitor on duty that Du can't get the darn thing to work. After he/she's turned it on, wait 5 minutes, turn it off again, & repeat the process for a good half hour.
Work normally for a while. Suddenly look amazingly startled Von something on the screen and crawl underneath the desk.
Write a program that plays the "Smurfs" theme song and play it at the highest volume possible over & over again.
Yell "DISK FIGHT!!!"
Ask the person Weiter to Du if they know how to tap into top-secret pentagon files.
Assign a musical note to every key (ie. the Löschen key is A Flat, the B key is F sharp, etc.). Whenever Du hit a key, hum its note loudly. Write an entire paper this way.
Attempt to eat your computer's mouse.
Before anyone else is in the lab, connect each computer to different screen than the one it's set up with.
Borrow someone else's keyboard Von reaching over, saying "Excuse me, mind if I borrow this for a sec?", unplugging the keyboard & taking it.
Bring a chainsaw, but don't use it. If anyone asks why Du have it, say "Just in case..." mysteriously.
Bring an small tape player with a tape of really absurd sound effects.
Bring in a bunch of magnets and have fun.
Bring some dry ice & make it look like your computer is smoking.
Come into the computer lab wearing several endangered species of Blumen in your hair. Smile incessantly. Type a sentence, then laugh happily, exclaim "You're such a marvel!!", and KISS the screen. Repeat this after every sentence. As your ecstasy mounts, also hug the keyboard. Finally, hug your neighbor, then the computer assistant, and walk out.
Come to the lab wearing several layers of socks. Remove shoes and place them of oben, nach oben of the monitor. Remove socks layer Von layer and drape them around the monitor. Exclaim sudden haiku about the aesthetic beauty of cotton on plastic.
Draw a picture of a woman (or man) on a piece of paper, tape it to your monitor. Try to seduce it. Act like it hates Du and then complain loudly that women (men) are worthless.
Enter the lab, undress, and start staring at other people as if they're crazy while typing.
Every time Du press Return and there is processing time required, pray "Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease," and scream "YES!" when it finishes.
If Du have long hair, take a typing break, look for teilt, split ends, cut them and deposit them on your neighbor's keyboard as Du leave.
If you're sitting in a swivel chair, spin around Singen "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" whenever there is processing time required.
Keep looking at invisible bugs and trying to swat them.
Laugh hysterically, shout "You will all perish in flames!!!" and continue working.
Laugh uncontrollably for about 3 Minuten & then suddenly stop and look suspiciously at everyone who looks at you.
Light candles in a kreis around your terminal before starting.
Log on, wait a sec, then get a frightened look on your face and scream "NO!!! They've found me!" and bolt.
Make a loud noise of hitting the same key over and over again until Du see that your neighbor is noticing (You can hit the Weltraum bar so your fill isn't affected). Then look at your neighbor's keyboard. Hit his/her Löschen key several times, erasing an entire word.
Make a small ritual sacrifice to the computer before Du turn it on.
Play "Pong" for hours on the most powerful computer in the lab.
Point at the screen. Chant in a made up language while making elaborate hand gestures for a Minute oder two. Press return oder the mouse, then leap back and yell "COVEEEEERRRRRR!" peek up from under the table, walk back to the computer and say. "Oh, good. It worked this time," and calmly start to type again.
Pretend it's the computer and look really lost.
Print out the complete works of Shakespeare, then when its all done (two days later) say that all Du wanted was one line.
Pull out a pencil. Start Schreiben on the screen. Complain that the lead doesn't work.
Put a large, gold-framed portrait of the British Royal Family on your schreibtisch and loudly proclaim that it inspires you.
Put a straw in your mouth and put your hands in your pockets. Type Von hitting the keys with the straw.
Quietly walk into the computer lab with a Black and Decker chainsaw, rev that baby up, and then walk up to the nearest person and say, "Give me that computer oder you'll be feeding my pet krokodil for the Weiter week".
Remove your disk from the drive and hide it. Go to the lab monitor and complain that your computer ate your disk. (For special effects, put some Elmer's Glue on oder around the disk drive. Claim that the computer is drooling.)
Run into the computer lab, shout "Armageddon is here!!!!!", then calmly sit down and begin to type.
See who's online. Send a total stranger a talk request. Talk to them like you've known them all your lives. Hangup before they geta chance to figure out you're a total stranger.
Sit and stare at the screen, biting your nails noisily. After doing this for a while, spit them out at the feet of the person Weiter to you.
Stare at the person's Weiter to your's screen, look really puzzled, burst out laughing, and say "You did that?" loudly. Keep laughing, grab your stuff and leave, howling as Du go.
Stare at the screen, grind your teeth, stop, look at the person Weiter to grinding. Repeat procedure, making sure Du never provoke the person enough to let them blow up, as this releases tension, and it is far Mehr effective to let them linger.
Start making out with the person at the terminal Weiter to Du (It helps if Du know them, but this is also a great way to make new friends).
Take the keyboard and sit under the computer. Type up your paper like this. Then go to the lab supervisor and complain about the bad working conditions.
Try to stick a Nintendo patrone into the 3 1/2 disc drive, when it doesn't work, get the supervisor.
Two words: Tesla Coil.
Type frantically, often stopping to look at the person Weiter to Du evilly.
Type on VAX for a while. Suddenly start cursing for 3 Minuten at everything bad about your life. Then stop and continue typing.
Use Interactive Send to make passes at people Du don't know.
When doing calculations, pull out an abacus and say that sometimes the old ways are best.
When Du are on an IBM, and when Du turn it on, ask loudly where the smiling apfel, apple face is when Du turn on one of those.
When your computer is turned off, complain to the monitor on duty that Du can't get the darn thing to work. After he/she's turned it on, wait 5 minutes, turn it off again, & repeat the process for a good half hour.
Work normally for a while. Suddenly look amazingly startled Von something on the screen and crawl underneath the desk.
Write a program that plays the "Smurfs" theme song and play it at the highest volume possible over & over again.
Yell "DISK FIGHT!!!"
