Spider Solitaire
Ever since I first fired up a web browser, my PC has been almost entirely a network access device… aside from running the occasional game, or viewing the occasional MS Word document, everything I use is accessed either via a shell session (still haven’t found an email client that beats elm) or a web browser…
When the network isn’t up or is unbearably slow, I don’t know what to do… so I’ve been playing Spider Solitaire. Way too much of it. To the point where I can win about 20% of the time, I think. That is one evil program. :) Statistics: 52 wins, 572 loses (a lot of which are closing the game before it even starts)… a lot of the losses were early on, I think I had to play over a hundred games before I won a single one. What a monumental waste of time. But it is so satisfying to beat, and each game takes only a few minutes. Addictive. I should delete it. But then, what would I do when the network was down, while I waited for it to come back up?