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How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation?

Posted by Cliff on from the tis-the-season dept.

Embedded Geek asks: "Instead of just spending Christmas break (or slowdown if you don't actually get time off) fixing up your house/car/server, are there any neat activities or events in your neck of the woods that you've been putting off? A museum exhibit? A cool new restaurant? An attraction in your hometown you usually only see with out of town relatives? Share your ideas with your fellow Slashdot readers! I, for one, plan to check out Barsoom to Blade Runner: Science Fiction in Southern California in my hometown."

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  1. Like Peter in the movie Office Space... by Masa · · Score: 5, Funny
    "I would relax, I would sit on my ass all day, I would do nothing."

    And I'm doing that right now...

    1. Re:Like Peter in the movie Office Space... by rmohr02 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey Peter, man, check out channel nine!

  2. Re:I'm spending it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get a hooker, you deserve it.

  3. Toy Assembly For The Boy by agrounds · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm spending my -day- off assembling toys that have been purchased or 'delivered by Santa' for my son. Mr phillips-head, Mr Duracell, and Mr Band-Aid are treating me poorly as I discover new and even more ingenious ways to bind toys that are in no way assembled to the cardboard boxes they came in. The joys of Christmas are truly without number. Twist-ties and styrofoam bricks provide a nice seat for me while I curse with reckless abandon the SOB who figured that GI Joe vehicles should practically be through-bolted to their respective boxes. Soon, I will get the portable propane torch and ignite the remaining boxes with the goodies still in them. The boy gets what survives the inferno. I like to think of this as Christmas Darwinism. Amusingly, of the many and expensive toys he received from various family, he is most taken with the $15 helicopter so far.

  4. well... by radiashun · · Score: 5, Funny

    after opening all of my gifts i go to throw my new video card into my computer. 3 hours later i leave the hospital with 6 stitches from my case-o-death :-(