Personally i mine by hand.
I send my shares via registered mail to the bitcoin foundation.
They said it would take 14 million years to mine a bitcoin that way.
Brb i'll write an article about how fucking retarded i am.

anyone actually done 1 hash by hand?
I think it would take a while, there's a lot of rounds to do in a SHA-256 hash.
64 rounds? something like that