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That market was saturated years and years ago.

What you want is to start a new trend towards "retro, artisanal, locally sourced, eight-bit drying paint".

Since you asked for it, here is drying paint ... but Watching Grass Grow might be too much excitement for 'ya! ;-)

never seen dancing with egos before but

http://www.watching-paint-dry.com/
is currently off line as it has dried and is now directing you to
http://www.watching-grass-grow.com/

so really not much choice there...

Well, the worst that could happen is that visiting the site will feel like watching paint dry.

Your situation kinda sucks as it sounds like you are a diligent worker who wants to help the company. But as long as they are paying you, it's really their choice how they want to use your services. All you can do is when your co-workers ask for your help in passing the torch, mention that you are hand-cuffed by the lack of access and have them request it for you.

P.S. Some activities to pass the time would include Watching Grass Grow and/or Watching Paint Dry.

Cray Supercomputer and others were doing all sorts of parallel processing back in the 70's and 80's. Per their history page , the Cray-1 came out in 1976 and various quotes from that page include "first multiprocessor supercomputer (1982) ... multiple 333 MFLOPS processors (1988) ... massively parallel processing (MPP) system (1993)"

What are Sony's lawyers going to patent next - using MPP (multiple parallel painters) to paint a house?

Then how about a Painter Appreciation Day?!? ;-)

We need the Mad Magazine Spys to weigh in on this matter ... or paint a house rather than the endless argument of what exactly is responsible disclosure.

Here is the printable version ... as noted at the bottom, this this is an excerpt from an upcoming book The Pentagon: a History by Stephan Vogel. Newspapers tend to do these reprints over 3-day weekends since not a lotta news happening - here's something ... uhhhhh ... exciting happening today ... ;-)

With hardware (and bandwidth) getting cheaper, I find it hard to believe that Google has actually run out of space. But certainly the explosion in the number of web pages is an issue, especially with auto-generated pages. One current example is the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO contest (white-hat celiac charity site I'm supporting) - that nonsense phrase returned zero results on January 15th, 2006 ... but now returns almost 5,000,000 ... of which I gotta believe the vast majority were NOT typed in by humans.

So maybe it's more that the techniques/algorithms used to spider and index are struggling with the bazillions of web pages out there. Or it could just be disgruntled webmasters PO'ed that their web site isn't listed!

Was kinda interesting hearing the description ... but yea, no footage of giant squid on video - too bad as that would be cool. Here is a live video feed showing another type of sealife - although not as big/interesting as a giant squid ;-)

All lofty stuff in the article about getting "fully educated"... but in reality (as seen in the US and other places), I can envision one billion Chinese reading Slashdot, gambling online, surfing for porn, and watching paint dry

Yes it is, but I have to say I clicked back to watching paint dry after a few minutes.

The January/2006 Wired had an article titled "How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet" that presented a case study of a charter-jet service victimized by this ... turns out it was their competition doing it to use up their on-line marketing budget. Google Girl basically stonewalled 'em.

Also, the frame rate appeared to be pretty good and decent image quality - compare to watching paint dry webcam - gotta be a decent webcam - anyone know what is being used.

Same basic concepts apply today ... although they probably didn't anticipate the rise of Black Hat SEO which attempts to "beat" the algorithms.

While I'm a fan of model trains, the referenced site isn't mine ... my latest whimsical site is watching paint dry ... but ummmm, a Google Earth hoax/prank would be pretty funny.