Comments on: Quite Distracting

By: Chris Griffin

Chris Griffin — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:48:09 +0000

Ha, your blog is magic. The second after I post that comment, lo and behold bloglines is back up.

By: Chris Griffin

Chris Griffin — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:45:00 +0000

My distraction is down at the moment (Bloglines), and has been down most of the day WTF! As soon as it comes back up I’m packing up my OPML and hitting the road.

But its even more distracting now because I keep refreshing because I need to know what’s going on here on the internets! I guess Bloglines’s series of tubes are clogged.

By: Steven Ametjan

Steven Ametjan — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:32:09 +0000

I do exactly what I’m doing now… I spend my day reading items in feeds rather than doing my actual work.

By: luxuryluke

luxuryluke — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:53:01 +0000

I’m never distrac.…

Woah, check this out!

[â€¦walking away.]

By: Mike Stickel

Mike Stickel — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:25:44 +0000

My distractions are those little “here, look at this link” messages I get from co-workers and friends who aren’t on the same deadline as I am. Of course, because I want to be cool like them I check the link and they keep sending them. Bastards!

Other distractions are simply real life. At times it gets to a point where I don’t want to be in front of the computer any more so I go somewhere else, start having fun there and refuse to leave. Damn deadlines, whomever invented them needs to be tarred and feathered.

By: Matthew Anderson

Matthew Anderson — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:05:57 +0000

I consider myself lucky to have discovered coffee at such an early age. If I ever get distracted I need only take a break, walk to get coffee and return to my desk. The act of getting coffee kicks in some placebo focus. The act of drinking it, keeps my focus going. Like I said though, I consider myself lucky.

By: Anton

Anton — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:50:01 +0000

Well, I’d like to think that my distractions aren’t all so.…

…ooh look, something SHIINY (runs off).

By: Thomas Baekdal

Thomas Baekdal — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:58:45 +0000

I usually find myself drawn towards several things (when on a deadline):

- checking the newsreader (it was during a distraction that I noticed this post)
– checking design, architecture or car design sites
– start walking around in the office and probably annoying the everyone by doing so
– drawing small cartoon figures (not very good ones)
– feeling insanely frustrated by being distracted, and solve it by starring out the window to see if the trees do something funny (they rarely do)

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:10:23 +0000

Dan, you forgot the last step: “Come home to angry e-mails from project managers.”

By: Lance E. Leonard

Lance E. Leonard — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:01:59 +0000

I have a complete IA due to a client tomorrow and am gearing up for a late night tonight (it’s already 11pm). What got me here? Wasting all day painting random parts of the mural I’m doing in the nursery for our soon-to-be-born baby boy. Not quite as mundane as doing the dishes, and will probably be the looming deadline as we gear up for birth, but your post was a wee bit timely.