Once home, he has a battery-powered radio and uses a small kerosene lamp to pass time at night reading.
With over 5, 000 inmates, baseball has become a past time to pass time.
"Play is not just something people do to pass time, it's a core need for every person and culture, " said Mr Pincus.
Liking something on Facebook is a simple, almost mindless way to pass time on the social networking site, which says it has more than a billion users worldwide.
You know, at 27 at 6 ft 10 ins, I haven't grown out of that stage so for me, it's something I do to pass time on Monday nights.
Often sitting in a studio in the dark for long stretches of time, they exchange personal stories and jokes to pass the time, and as a consequence, learn a great deal about each other in a short amount of time.
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In North Carolina, strangers standing next to each other played games to pass the time, quizzing each other on their knowledge of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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To pass the time, she wrote a book, a biography of her Iranian grandmother.
They fight for respect, for food and snacks, or simply to pass the time.
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Taking care of his modest Spanish-style bungalow is one way for him to pass the time.
The company barely survived, and Jobs had to pass his time in exile.
The millions of videos on websites like YouTube are, for most of us, an amusing way to pass the time.
To pass the time, he planned to hunt for jobs online, update his curriculum vitae and freshen up his social profile.
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He said essentially that it's inconsequential, and he said that it's not going to pass in time to prevent those rates from doubling.
They picked up a newspaper one day early in their careers to pass the time, found the puzzle and tried to solve it.
Tamalpais in Marin County -- just on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge -- a seemingly adult way to pass the time.
Many reckoned the Slovaks would vote down the bailout expansion, but another vote is expected soon and the measure is expected to pass this time.
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But the political class today, typified by Stephen Harper, seems to operate under the delusion that culture is just entertainment, something to pass the time after the day's work is done.
But the public, uninterested that Mr Plimpton might have a serious motive for his jaunts, took the view that he was simply a moneyed idiot looking for ways to pass the time.
In lockdown, he made somewhat futile attempts to pass the time, copying the full text of the Bible (it took one year, nine months and two days), and pacing for 18 hours a day.
To pass the time on one of his visits Miss Bailey's father recalled that as a child she had shown a prodigious talent sketching the animals in the farm attached to their Shropshire home.
In addition, brain rest is recommended following a concussion, so reading, watching movies and playing video games -- things you might normally do to pass the time on a plane -- may make things worse.
He is running low on all his stores and has very little fuel left, so that listening to the radio or making telephone calls to pass the time is not an option during the long hot days at sea.
"It was like something really bad happened within the family and we needed to wait for time to pass before we could address the issue, " series director Carlos Moreno told the BBC.
And since I have criticized the GOP for staging phony primaries in the senate recalls, all for the purpose of delaying the actual recall elections to give their party more time to pass the Walker agenda, I would have to be just as critical of the Democrats playing this game as it would be equally wrong.
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She wants to hang on to it until it's time to pass it on to her three children.
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