Where to start, there are so many..

Solitaire on my Tungsten E is a favourite, burns time on all those plane trips when I know I could be productive. I've found I have also spent inordinate amounts of time reading about GTD, browsing the forums etc which became work avoidance under the guise of learning about productivity. I could go on but I am supposed to be working.

Looking for GTD-software and tips is my AGTD favourite. Everyone should add a "unsubscribe from GTD-related lists" as a action every now and then.

Reading blogs.

http://www.kaser.com/sherwin.html

The site describes it: "Sherlock is a computerized version of logic puzzles, where you're presented with a series of clues that help you to determine the exact locations of all of the images on the playing board."

I've played this game since 1991 when I first found it on a floppy disk for DOS. I play it on break at work in Windows and rarely at home in Wine on Linux. I turn off the little section for celebrating a win, because that slows me down. :-)

Oh no contest: The Sims, and now even better The Sims 2. Create your own virtual people in your own virtual world and then avoid doing anything useful at all by dropping in on them for a while.
Indulge your evil side by getting your happily married Sims to fall in love with the wrong people, kill off any goodie-goodie Sims that are beginning to annoy you (get them into the swimming pool then take away the ladder out - that's usually good for a prolonged death by drowning or starvation). Endless pleasures.
Must go now - just off for a visit with my therapist...

I wrote an article a while ago on Productivity Lessons from The Sims...

http://pigpog.com/wiki/index.php/Productivity_Lessons_from_The_Sims

...though it might have just been an excuse to play The Sims and pretend it was 'research'.

Reading blogs on my RSS reader is perfect for recharging the batteries...

POGO on AOL is it! Someone has done their research and created games that are easy to play with just the right amount of challenge. For AGTD you can lose whole evenings.

No massive games for me -- GO is excellent, but it has to be intentional.

The two AGTD sinks are, for me, bejeweled and
snood.

Of course, the best AGTD technique is the off-by-one approach mentioned earlier, and starts with
questions like:

• What's on my RSS?
  
• Any new email?
  
• What tools do others use for GTD?
  

Best/Worst practices:

> Fiddling with my NetFlix Queue
> Playing on BrickBreaker on my Blackberry (it's a version of 'Breakthrough')

Just a few...

• Check my RSS feeds for new posts (even if I've checked them in the past thirty minutes).
• Follow links on blogs. See how far the rabbit hole really goes.
• Look for a blog to post a somewhat-meaningful comment.

My favourite is the Fake Dependency Filibuster, eg. I should build that rabbit hutch, but my tools are in the shed, so I need to clear the shed out first, but clearing out the shed is low priority, so ...

Of course there's no point clearing out my shed until I have some top shed-clearing-out tips, so I can't build that rabbit hutch until David blogs on Getting Your Shed Cleared Out. Curse you David for making my rabbits homeless!

My other technique is to play Doom. There's nothing like chainsawing a few zombies to vent my frustration over Not Getting Anything Done.

Read up on something called Sodoku the other day. According to the article, this game is spreading all over Britain. Basically a number organization (???) game, it is kind of catchy. I don't think I could ever play it for hours a day, but it makes for a few minutes of fun now and then.

http://www.sudoku.com

On the computer, logic puzzles. Particularly of the Japanese-picture variety. http://www.conceptispuzzles.com/ has weekly free puzzles. That makes it worse, because there's the feeling that you HAVE to finish them all before they get changed out. If I put my username and password in at work, I would probably have gotten myself fired by now!

And I have to stay out of the links section, too. I HAVE spent hours playing Sodoku and other types of puzzle games online. Yikes.

Email.. surfing the web.. and SPIDER .. the newest game on XP.. a real brain killer. To really overdose, I do that AND watch Law and Order.

Read a chapter of a book, play an instrument for an hour, watch that movie I've been hearing so many good things about. I try and keep a good number of these items on my lists at all times, actually. So, in case I'm pooped at the end of the day, there's an appropriate task waiting for me that's something I actually want to take care of, rather than a game that will leave my life relatively unchanged. (That's not to say that I don't love games.) There are indeed healthy ways to veg out, though they may bring to mind images of parents offering their children carrots instead of candy bars.

It makes more sense to say that Go is Chinese, as that was where it was developed before it was imported to Japan.

Loving Bejeweled 2 on my daughter's Windows based computer (not yet available for MAC :( ) or the original Bejeweled on my Palm. The music is mesmerizing and the different levels of competition keep me wired. If I have less time to AGTD, I turn to my simple plug-and-play Pac Man and Dig Dug.

I don't have any games on my Tungsten E! Is that sacrilege?

I do however, shift actions around on my Palm a lot ! You know? Due date, no date, category, someday/maybe, next year, yesterday, done etc.

I'm not actually not doing any of them of course, but I feel very "productive" all the same.