The Daily Grind: Favorite activity to do at the same time as MMOing?

While grinding, listen to excellent, intelligent podcasts at radiolab.org.

Surfing the web, watching tv, scrolling through my playlist, chatting on msn.

Its amazing how I get anything done.

I like to drink beer, eat crisps/nuts/some other kind of "munchie" & listen to Kerrang on the radio :)

additional to my comment:

drink
drugs
masterbate surounded by gun mags.

If an MMO activity is so dull and un-engaging that I could be doing something else while doing it, I do something else instead. There's no point in paying good money for things that can't hold your full attention. Either play a real game, or play an MMO that's actually fun.

Lots of good ones here; drinking, working, web surfing, playing other games, listening to music, reading, watching television... But I'm surprised no one mentioned running another instance of the same game (or maybe they did, and I skimmed past) and doing something different with the other character.

Abusing a somewhat old meme:
"Yo, dawg, we've put an MMO inside your MMO so that you can play while you play!"

Yeah, not exactly accurate, but I couldn't help it.

Listen to the Radio. Perfect match. Radio 4, Radio 7, World Service, Radio 5/ Sports Extra, CBC, various Podcasts...

In life I try never to do only one thing at a time. Such a waste.

Wait, wait, wait...

Who the hell is talented enough to actually READ A BOOK while playing ANY game? That would require two independent sets of eyes and at least three arms.

I'm always at least doing a few other things while gaming, it's actually a main reason I don't want to party much because I never am just gaming. I will walk outside very often too or go afk to do things every few minutes. I will end up doing homework, cleaning up my room, talking on the phone, watching a movie, listening to music, all while playing. I'm at least always doing three things, if it's late and nobody is up to talk to, I'm playing an MMO while watching a movie and listening to the radio, or sometimes watching two movies while I play, or a TV show and a movie, etc. I am very often petting and grooming my cat or my parents' cats too or playing with a hamster while I play. I'm petting a cat and watching two movies as I write this actually :D

How the...
Amazing if you people can do all that at the same time! And watching two movies, while petting a cat and writing here... You gotta use your toes too?

I'm chatting on MSN and reading forum, maybe surfing a bit. Listening to music sometimes too. But many times that i log in, i want to get into games world. Might be that i don't even listen to in-game music. Just that clip-clop from your horse and "Raaa!" from your enemies =D

But sometimes it's just fun to listen to music, have some beer and hang around in Guild Chat or some other Channel.