boomka's Journal: geek "games"

hm recently looked again at World of Warcraft's site. Looks like it will be a nice game but when will the MMORPG companies realize their pricing policy has major flaws? I for one don't want to pay 16$ per month every month - I don't play games 40 hours a week like many MMORPG players do, why should I pay as much as they do? Sometimes I don't play at all for weeks at a time. They really should add pay-by-the-hour plan so if I play only 4 hours this month I will only pay like 2$.

But this is only a half-hearted rant for me as it looks like I am really growing out of the games and play less and less these days. Instead I caught myself playing "games" with gadgets and simular things. Like getting an excellent karma on Slashdot was a game in itself :)

Recently I also got a Gmail account... not because I really need it but because it's cool to have one... and same goes for my own domain which I also got for free, albeit only for a year.
Not to mention me ever toying with my Debian box, changing this and that, recompiling kernel every now and then...

I realized doing all these things was more like a game in itself for me, trying to find out what "cool" things there are out there and playing with them. What's next for me? Getting into Orkut? ;)
Wonder what "games" other people out there found for themselves.

I know some of them spend time better than I do and make cool maps like this: http://www.ooblick.com/text/tomordor/