I have no idea what you're talking about.

EDIT: Six minutes later sees this post and realizes he STILL hasn't gotten back to what he was working on.

Procrastination can be managed. One can procrastinate on one task by carrying out another.

If I do not work for an hour and then make the perfect change, that's better than floundering for six hours.

That's my best yet strategy against procrastination.

Doing something mundane with a known API is something they will avoid. Such tasks are probably in the majority of those found even in the most exciting jobs. This is what I believe to be the cause of the association.

Source: generalizing my own experience to the whole population of Earth. Btw, I gotta get back to work too.

I frequently find myself playing in my .vimrc, .screenrc, .bashrc and other confs to not much obvious productive output.

Changing window managers, console terminals and anything basically, all in excuse of not working on job at hand.

On the upper hand, beats playing solitaire.

Thanks to Larry Wall.