1. Log on, wait a sec, then get a frightened look on your face and scream, "Oh my God! They've found me!" and bolt.
2.
Laugh uncontrollably for about 3 minutes and then suddenly stop and look suspiciously at everyone who looks at you.
3.
When your computer is turned off, complain to the monitor on duty that you can't get the darned thing to work. After he/she's
turned it on, wait 5 minutes, turn it off again, and repeat the process for a good half hour.
4. Type frantically, often
stopping to look at the person next to you evilly.
5. Before anyone else is in the lab, connect each computer to a different
screen than the one it's set up with.
6. Write a program that plays the "Smurfs" theme song and play it at the highest
volume possible over and over again.
7. Work normally for awhile. Suddenly look amazingly startled by something on the
screen and crawl underneath the desk.
8. Ask the person next to you if they know how to tap into top- secret Pentagon
files.
9. Use Interactive Send to make passes at people you don't know.
10. Make a small ritual sacrifice to the computer
before you turn it on.
11. Bring a chain saw, but don't use it. If anyone asks why you have it, say "Just in case..."
mysteriously.
12. Type on VAX for awhile. Suddenly start cursing for 3 minutes about everything bad about your life. Then
stop and continue typing.
13. Enter the lab, undress, and start staring at other people as if they're crazy while typing.
14. Light candles in a pentagram around your terminal before starting.
15. Ask around for a spare disk. Offer $2.
Keep asking until someone agrees. Then, pull a disk out of your fly and say, "Oops, I forgot."
16. Every time you press
return and there is processing time required, pray "Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease," and scream "YES!" when it finishes.
17. "DISK FIGHT!"
18. Start making out with the person at the terminal next to you (it helps if you know them, but
this is also a great way to make new friends).
19. Put a straw in your mouth and put your hands in your pockets. Type
by hitting the keys with the straw.
20. If you're sitting in a swivel chair, spin around singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
whenever there is processing time required.
21. Draw a picture of a woman (or man) on a piece of paper and tape it to
your monitor. Try to seduce it. Act like it hates you and then complain loudly that women (men) are worthless.
22. Try
to stick a Nintendo cartridge in the 3.5 disk drive. When it doesn't work, get the supervisor.
23. When you are on an
IBM and when you turn it on, ask loudly where the smiling Apple face is when you turn on one of those.
24. Print out the
complete works of Shakespeare, then when it's all done (two days later) say that all you wanted was one line.
25. Sit
and stare at the screen, biting your nails noisily. After doing this for awhile, spit them out at the feet of the person next
to you.
26. Stare at the screen, grind your teeth, stop, look at the person next to you. Repeat procedure, making sure
you never provoke the person enough to let them blow up, as this releases tension, and it is far more effective to let them
linger.
27. If you have long hair, take a typing break, look for split ends, cut them, and deposit them on your neighbor's
keyboard as you leave.
28. Put a large, gold-framed portrait of the British royal family on your desk and loudly proclaim
that it inspires you.
29. Come to the lab wearing several layers of socks. Remove shoes and place them on top of the monitor.
Remove socks layer by layer and drape them around the monitor. Exclaim sudden haiku about the aesthetic beauty of cotton on
plastic.
30. 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.
31. Laugh hysterically, shout "You will all perish in flames!!!" and continue
working.
32. Bring some dry ice and make it look like the computer is smoking.
33. Assign a musical note to every
key (ex. the delete key is A-flat). Whenever you hit a key, hum its note loudly. Write an entire paper this way.
34. Attempt
to eat your computer's mouse.
35. Borrow someone else's keyboard by reaching over, saying "Excuse me, mind if I borrow
this for a sec?", unplugging the keyboard, and taking it.
36. Bring in a bunch of magnets and have fun.
37. When doing
calculations, pull out an abacus and say that sometimes the old ways are best.
38. Play Pong for hours on the most powerful
computer in the lab.
39. Make a loud noise of hitting the same key over and over again until you see that your neighbor
is noticing (You can hit the space bar so your fill isn't affected). Then look at your neighbor's keyboard. Hit his/her delete
key several times, erasing an entire word. While you do this, ask: "Does your delete key work?" Shake your head, and resume
hitting the space bar on your keyboard. Keep doing this until, you've deleted about a page of your neighbor's document. Then,
suddenly exclaim: "Well, whaddya know? I've been hitting the space bar this whole time. No wonder it wasn't deleting! Ha!"
Print out your document and leave.
40. 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 or around the disk drive. Claim that the
computer is drooling.)
41. Stare at the person's next to yours screen, look really puzzled, burst out laughing and say
"You did that?" loudly. Keep laughing, grab your stuff and leave, howling as you go.
42. Point at the screen. Chant in
a made-up language while making elaborate hand gestures for a minute or two. Press return or the mouse, then leap back and
yell "COVEEEEERRRRR!" 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.
43. Keep looking at invisible bugs and trying to swat them.
44. See who's online. Send
a total stranger a talk request. Talk to them like you've known them all your lives. Hang up before they get a chance to figure
out you're a total stranger.
45. Bring a small tape player with a tape of really absurd sound effects. Pretend it's the
computer and look really lost.
46. Pull out a pencil. Start writing on the screen. Complain that the lead doesn't work.
47. Come into the computer lab wearing several endangered species of flowers 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.
48. Run into the
computer lab, shout "Armageddon is here!!!!!", then calmly sit down and begin to type.
49. 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
or you'll be feeding my pet crocodile for the next week."
50. Two words: Tesla Coil
