outbored: my proposed replacement title for graig's weblog. the former spider behind the toilet has now become trepanning for fun and profit and comes in a less ominous colour scheme, so you can smile with your new hole in your head (rather than a head like a hole). i already miss the spider, both the digital tribute and the physical specimen, who was a big ol' arachnid of the highest order.

outbored: a mantra you can use to indicate how more uninterested you are with your situation than the other uninterested souls around you. they can be ultrabored, overbored or überbored, but you can outbore them to no end. they fall asleep during the meeting, you start flossing your teeth with vigour.

outbored: wordplay on outboard since that's the source. thinking of brooklyn heights as long island's outboard motor, in case we need to make a speedy escape from the mainland america. kick the bridges up, put the consolidate edison plant in the water and speed off, leaving the hamptons and the north fork way up in the sky. the metaphor quickly runs out of fuel, so we'll skip to my next point. next stop: españa!

out-bored: 'coss you can hyphenate. if you're feeling retro.

outbored: when you've drilled your hole too deep to the point where your skull can't maintain its structure. then you'll be left sitting around vacantly, like a vegetable, wishing you could be bored.

my brother used to have a list about what to do when you were bored, but that's long been abandoned. it was a strangely popular site back in 1995, to the point where it was compiled into other journals. i doubt he still has a copy, considering he accidentally deletes all his files or reformats his computer on a regular basis. (and yes, that does run in the family. thank goodness for backups.)