UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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Don't start playing Zwok at work, otherwise you won't stop. Don't ask why I know this. Thanks Susan for the link.
Update: This game is a bit of a system hog, and runs pretty slow on some systems. I'd recommend turning off the music and sound effects (clicking on the little icons in the upper left) and/or using this bookmarklet (drag it to your browser toolbar and click on it while the game is running) to set the flash quality to "Low Quality". It runs much faster that way (hat tip to Jesse for that tip).
Jesse Thompson said on 07/04/06 @ 01:20 PM: Here is a game I can ONLY play at work. :) That is until I figure out how to change the "quality" from HI to LO on the thing, runs too slow on my home compy. :(
Jake said on 07/04/06 @ 01:45 PM: Oh good, I'm not the only one that had trouble on my home computer with it. I actually found it ran fine on my home computer when I turned off the music and sound effects (little icons in the upper left, click on them). But yeah, I was trying to do the same thing (turning it to low quality).
Jesse Thompson said on 07/05/06 @ 03:04 AM: Yo, yo, so I did some research and I made a bookmarklet. It takes any flash on the page you're looking at and magically makes it all low quality.
Oh, and er.. I probably can't paste it in here since it's a big javascript url. I'll email it to you!
I've emailed a copy to Jesse Rudderman (it was adapted from the code for one of his to begin with) maybe he'll add it to his collectiony thing. :)
Jake said on 07/05/06 @ 04:29 PM: Added the bookmarklet. Thanks, Jesse!