While sitting down with a scratchpad and a pen during meetings, brainstorming, etc etc, what do you do to the scratchpad.
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While sitting down with a scratchpad and a pen during meetings, brainstorming, etc etc, what do you do to the scratchpad.
I doodle :(
I have a pen and paper at work and I never use it for anything other than doodling while thinking or when distracted or demotivated... My work notebook, I try to keep as clean as possible but a few doodles erupt in random pages at random times.
And from what I observe from my coworkers, their papers scattered all over the table are made of 80% doodles
Maybe people should post their DOODLES!!!
I play with Legos and draw imaginary archipe*****/lands.
That could produce some interesting results - http://www.definition-of.com/doodleQuote:
Originally Posted by oceanebelle
my massive scribble.
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Originally Posted by Yumby
:confused:
You'll work it out. ;)
I never thought doodle would have some other unwholesome meaning. X|
I wouldn't say that it's unwholesome, it's just a word that can be used as a euphemism. Anyway, I just thought I'd give you a heads up, that's all.
I hope you'll forgive the obvious connotations that can be drawn from the alternative meaning but, ahem, that's a damn fine doodle you've got there, OB.
Yeah, good thinking. Now i'll stick to my scribbles! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Yumby
Yeah these *scribbles* happen when i get a hold of a felt tip pen and a nice notepad.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
To anyone:Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
I just noticed "QUOTE=FunkyDexter;3550144" in the text inside quotes during editing.. Does that mean it's username;uid?
That is PostID.Quote:
Originally Posted by oceanebelle
Why is there a need for PostId now?
I answered before I read that this was meeting-centric. During meetings, I disassemble my pen and use the spring to launch the ink cartridge towards the ceiling. When not in meetings, the only time I ever use a pad and pen, it is for working out a thought, which involves no real doodling.
You're an exception to the rule that I have observed then... That, generally programmers like to doodle aimlessly when thinking. Or maybe this is something specific to those people with underlying brain conditions :| :O
I doodle, I just don't bring scratch pads to meetings. Besides, it is very hard to doodle when you have disassembled your pen.
because it adds a little link back to the post you are quoting, so someone can click that link and easily jump to the original post you took your quote from ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by oceanebelle
If a Yank doodles, is it a Yankee Doodle?
you shouldn't yank your doodle in meetings
Personally I just try to avoid thinking.Quote:
generally programmers like to doodle aimlessly when thinking.
If all you doodlers could redirect your doodling energy in another direction you might be able to transform your lives. Doodlers Anonymous might be able to help though I hear its attendees spend too much time doodling at the meetings.
This is an interesting topic as the company I work for sent me on a training course a while ago that encouraged doodling and also gave us lego's and squishy ball jobbys to play with as well as colored pens.
It turns out that when you doodle you allow your sub conscious to take in more analytical data more easily. Of course this is a blanket statement. Some people will not doodle but tap pens or use there hands to play with things, like lego or squishy balls.
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Originally Posted by kleinma
O that arrow icon. just noticed it now. c00l. :D
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Originally Posted by EntityX
Somehow that's funny :D
Sometimes when i try to think, I absent-mindedly write "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" over and over and over again until I snap out of it. :sick: is that a good type of doodling or is my subconscious mind going into another subject entirely like drifting off.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeanMc
As long as you don't find yourself writing:-
All work and no play makes OceaneBelle a dull girl
All work and no play makes OceaneBelle a dull girl
All work and no play makes OceaneBelle a dull girl
All work and no play makes OceaneBelle a dull girl
All work and no play makes OceaneBelle a dull girl
All work and no play makes OceaneBelle a dull girl
All work and no play makes OceaneBelle a dull girl
you should be ok
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Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
now that you mention it...
All of the above? :(
I doodle, write down notes, tap the pen AND chomp on the tip... :sick:
I listen attentively, chew my pen, doodle, and/or make paper aeroplanes, depending on how boring the meeting is.