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| Shane
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02-03-2002 11:03 PM ET (US)
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Very nice rant.
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02-03-2002 11:15 PM ET (US)
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In my experience the phrase is used, at least in my walks of life, in two ways - both justified. The first is derogatory, referring to someone who has laboured for months implementing a really poor solution to a not very hard problem. It's easy to blame management in this case - someone should have said "What the hell are you doing?" after the first week.
The second use is a cross between praise and self-criticism - the subtext being "Why do I waste all my free time bumming around - look what this guy has done!".
Cory, you have too much time on your hands (second sense).
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02-03-2002 11:36 PM ET (US)
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Gee, Cory, the SUPERBOWL was on, and you spent the time writing instead of eating Buffalo Wings and slammin' down beer? Man, what kind of a geek RU? :-)
Me, I drove to Portland's funky Eastern reaches to do Dead Media research. I went to a tiny movie theater that's so marginal that it can't afford to rent mainstream indie releases. They show things like Rocky Horror, and Troma's horror flicks and . . . "Scopitone a-Go-Go!"
That's why I went. Scopitone is a Dead Media; short pre-video-Music Videos shown on coin-operated film-jukeboxes found in bars and cocktail lounges. You dropped in a quarter and selected a movie, which was shown on a screen atop the device.
A film archivist had collected a few dozen of the 16mm reels and spliced them together to show to other People With Too Much Time On Their Hands. There was no framing material; he explained the Scopitone and its strange fate (killed by bad publicity; the coin-op industry was owned by the Mafia, and the films featured scantily clad women jumping up and down and doing sumersaults) in person, to the two people who showed up.
Way cooler than watching overpaid stooges butt each other on the head.
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02-03-2002 11:41 PM ET (US)
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RATED PG-13. Guess I owe Dan in college an apology. He collected his belly button lint in a jar.
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02-03-2002 11:53 PM ET (US)
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Nice rant, and it's all true - but if you're talking to the sort of people who read weblogs you're pretty sure to be preaching to the converted. All praise to quirky borderline obsessive hobbies! (except for the ones I don't personally like, of course. Those ones are just a sign that someone has too much time on their hands.)
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02-04-2002 12:36 AM ET (US)
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Sounds like you've got a little too much time on your hands.
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