Time wasting

Recently, Maria posted an entry on her blog about suggestions for wasting time in a seasonally appropriate fashion. One of the links was for this fun little thing called LineRider.com, where you draw a course for this guy on a sled and he’ll then ride it. It happens that I had heard about this thing a few months ago via the livejournal of Aaron Williams, the author of the comics Nodwick and Full Frontal Nerdity, both available at www.nodwick.com.

This livejournal, which is also posted on that website, is the source of a number of good things, and I should really credit him for having brought them to my attention. I know that I learned of the Three In the Afternoon video from there, and I think also Chad Vader, although I may be wrong about the latter. In any case, when he posted a thing about this game, he also posted a neat link to this amazing course that someone had made. In order to really properly appreciate these two videos, I think you have to try messing around with the game for a few minutes and see how hard it is to actually make anything resembling a decent course. Then think about how much time it must have taken to construct these courses. I really have no idea who these people are or how they had the time to make these things but I am in awe of them. Special credit also goes to the first of these two clips for using music from Cowboy Bebop (even if it is a remixed version)

Anyway, here are the two courses: