...been playing the stupid sexy Rupert Graves edition of the addictive tile game 2048 while listening to early twentieth century blues and jazz on Youtube.

This is such a great era in which to be a loafer. So much free content. I don't even mean illegal downloads either. There are literally hundreds of thousands of books out there waiting to be read for free, whether because they're out of copyright (see Project Gutenberg) or because their authors have given them away. (See the_slash_pile for original slash novels for free.) That's not even counting the free games, the free legal music online, the free art and the free periodicals.

We live in an astounding age.