And since Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt had joined Apples board of directors two weeks earlier, it was easy enough for bored reporters to speculate about what the two companies might be up to.
No one would ever be bored enough or wasteful enough to think of doing it in their own time.
Either way, I was "in," hoping to be both bored enough to fall back asleep or enchanted enough to keep myself occupied.
Long enough to become bored with them.
"It's far too long, and I'm bored enough as it is.
Or maybe Jacob is utterly levelheaded, and just bored enough to play an elaborate joke on me.
Even the presence of Monica Lewinsky seemed oddly quaint, calling to mind a time when the country was happily bored enough for sexual dalliance to consume whole news cycles.
She has the right ingredients – youth and riches – and has been at Facebook for five years (which in Sandberg's world is long enough to become bored).
But a guy with a clipboard and a thick computer printout of addresses was standing on the corner, informing a few random people — those curious or bored enough to engage him in conversation — that, since the 2010 census, their polling station might have changed.
Joe Wicks is one: he is 30 years old and from Surbiton, where he presumably got bored enough to start Instagramming pictures of himself and his grub, which made him so popular that Uncle Ben's has shoved him into one of its adverts for its Healthy Meals Made Easy.
