Inspired by epochBlue's lookBusy Script. Installing grails plugins sure do take a long time :D

busyScript.groovy

#!/usr/bin/groovy

import java.util.Random

def scriptDir = new File(getClass().protectionDomain.codeSource.location.path).parent;
def pluginsList = ["spring-security-core", "dojo", "hibernate", "tomcat", "searchable", "spring-social-core", "uploadr"];
def grailsHeading = "Using Java at: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk\n" +
"Welcome to Grails 1.3.7 - http://grails.org/\nLicensed under Apache Standard License 2.0\n" +
"Grails home is set to: /usr/share/grails/1.3.7\nBase Directory:  ${scriptDir}\nResolving dependencies...\n" +
"Dependencies resolved in 888ms.\nRunning script /usr/share/grails/1.3.7/scripts/InstallPlugin.groovy\n" +
"Environment set to development\nResolving plugin spring-security-core. Please wait...\n";


println grailsHeading;

while(true)
{
	pluginsList.each() {
		sleep(5000)

    ranDumb = new Random();
    major = ranDumb.nextInt(5-1+1)+1
    minor = ranDumb.nextInt(8-1+1)+1
    incrimental = ranDumb.nextInt(15-1+1)+1
    build = ranDumb.nextInt(6-1+1)+1

		def pluginTxt1 = "Downloading: http://svn.codehaus.org/grails-plugins/grails-${it}/tags/RELEASE_${major}_${minor}_${incrimental}_${build}/grails-${it}-${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}.${build}.zip ...\n"+
"Download complete.\n"+
"Installing zip ~/.ivy2/cache/org.grails.plugins/${it}/zips/${it}-${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}.${build}.zip... ...\n" +
"[mkdir] Created dir: ${scriptDir}/.grails/1.3.7/projects/geekMeritBadge/plugins/${it}-${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}.${build}\n" +
"[unzip] Expanding: ${scriptDir}/.ivy2/cache/org.grails.plugins/${it}/zips/${it}-${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}.${build}.zip into ${scriptDir}/.grails/1.3.7/projects/geekMeritBadge/plugins/${it}-${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}.${build}\n" +
"Installed plugin ${it}-${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}.${build} to location ${scriptDir}/.grails/1.3.7/projects/geekMeritBadge/plugins/${it}-${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}.${build}. ...\n" +
"Resolving plugin JAR dependencies ...\n" +
"Executing ${it}-${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}.${build} plugin post-install script ...\n";
		def pluginTxt2 = "Copying ${it}.js file into the application ...\n" +
"[mkdir] Created dir: ${scriptDir}/Myne/gh/geekMeritBadge/web-app/js/${it}/${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}/${it}\n" +
"[copy] Copying 2 files to ${scriptDir}/Myne/gh/geekMeritBadge/web-app/js/${it}/${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}/${it}\n" +
"Done.'/web-app/js/${it}/${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}/${it}/${it}.js' has been copied into the application.\n" +
"\n" +
"Plugin ${it}-${major}.${minor}.${incrimental}.${build} installed\n" +
"Plugin provides the following new scripts:\n" +
"------------------------------------------\n" +
"grails install-custom-${it}\n"; 

		def pluginTxt3 = "[delete] Deleting: ${scriptDir}/.grails/1.3.7/projects/geekMeritBadge/resources/web.xml\n" +
"[delete] Deleting directory ${scriptDir}/Myne/gh/geekMeritBadge/target/classes\n" +
"[delete] Deleting directory ${scriptDir}/.grails/1.3.7/projects/geekMeritBadge/plugin-classes\n" +
"[delete] Deleting directory ${scriptDir}/.grails/1.3.7/projects/geekMeritBadge/resources\n";

		println pluginTxt1;
    sleep(ranDumb.nextInt(3000-1000+1)+1000)
		println pluginTxt2;
    sleep(ranDumb.nextInt(2000-1000+1)+1000)
		println pluginTxt3;
	}
}