The Official Status Thread
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@Intercourse said:
I shall call you "Sneezy" from this point forth.
He kind of looks like a KSP rocket.
Looks like some ridiculous piercings with pendulums swinging from chains.
All correct.
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Status: Hungry and unmotivated. The two may be linked.
It's a coincidence. I just got back from lunch and I'm still unmotivated.
Of course, you could just keep drinking more and more every day...
I tried that, but I started getting jittery after the fourth cup, so I switched to decaf, cold turkey. I had headaches for a week.
or the ViM vs. EMACS?
(ViM 4evah! EMACKS SUCKS DONKEY GENETALIA!!)
You only think that because you haven't tried evil-mode.
Wake me up when you can check your email, compile, and "play" Towers of Hanoi in vim.
Emacs is a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor.
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I tried that, but I started getting jittery after the fourth cup, so I switched to decaf, cold turkey. I had headaches for a week.
Cold turkey is a bad idea. I typically try to have just a bit in the mornings for a few days and then I'm usually safe. But caffeine doesn't generally make me jittery.
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Technically you could wind up filling up your stomach to the point where you needed more but couldn't fit it in. Then you'd have to boil your soda to concentrate the caffeine, or buy the soda syrup bags they use in fountain machines.
Or just take caffeine pills.
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Or just take caffeine pills.
If we were meant to get nourishment from pills we'd have them on trees.
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If we were meant to get nourishment from pills we'd have them on trees.
you mean coffee beans?
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you mean coffee beans?
Those clearly wouldn't be as efficient as caffeine pills, so, no.
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IME a day or two of Tylenol gets through the worst of it, but maybe I don't need it as much as you do.
Tylenol and the like help with the headaches, but do nothing for my almost complete lack of energy during withdrawal.
At the very least, this time around I've pretty much managed to keep my caffeine intake limited to the mornings, early afternoon at the latest. I did have one time in life when I was entirely dependent on caffeine to make it through the day and sleep aids to make it through the night. Was not a good situation.
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Current status: Inadvertently opened a second can of Mountain Dew that I had on my desk. I wouldn't normally complain but it's room temp. Whatever. Down the hatch.
Lukewarm Mountain Dew is just as good as cold Mountain Dew IMO. But growing up we never refrigerated pop and I never liked ice, so I'm probably used to it.
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Lukewarm Mountain Dew is just as good as cold Mountain Dew IMO.
I'd expect someone who says "pop" to have that kind of viewpoint.
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Those clearly wouldn't be as efficient as caffeine pills, so, no.
but they do grow on trees.
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but they do grow on trees.
I can see you're not going to be reasonable about this, by which of course I mean "agree with me" so I will leave in high dudgeon.
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I'd expect someone who says "pop" to have that kind of viewpoint.
It's like my childhood in the 1990's all over again! We kept moving between regions of the country that said "pop" and regions that said "soda"! And briefly in that silly region that calls everything "coke".
"I'll take a Coke."
"Okay, what kind?"
"Um, Coke."
"Yeah, but what kind?"
"Normal??"
"Look, we got Sprite, we got Coca-Cola, we got root beer--"
"Coca-Cola, which is what I told you like fifteen times already!"
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And briefly in that silly region that calls everything "coke".
The kind of hilarity this permits--which you adequately demonstrate below--shows why that's the superior convention.
BTW I never ran into that problem when I lived in Boston. If you said you wanted Coke, you got the Coke kind of Coke. Your waitress must've been a lousy furriner.
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If we were meant to get nourishment from pills we'd have them on trees.
Better stop taking that Tylenol then. ;)
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Status: Can't be bothered to count the number of characters in a string so did <code>SELECT LEN('The string went in here') </code> instead.
It was 25 characters.
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Filed Under: Yes, I know what I am.I do that all of the time...
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Neither is caffeine.
You tell @Accalia or the other caffeine junkies here that. Go on, I dare ya.
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BTW I never ran into that problem when I lived in Boston. If you said you wanted Coke, you got the Coke kind of Coke. Your waitress must've been a lousy furriner.
That's only because the generic term there is "tonic".
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Current status: stewing in my hatred of today. Phone is off, scowl is on my face, I need to be left alone.
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Status: I bought bagels yesterday but forgot to buy anything to spread on them. And my old cream cheese container is full of mold. And it's raining really hard or I'd just walk down to the 7-11 and pick some up. So no bagels for me today.
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Ok.
To: @Accalia, @antiquarian, @mott555, @mark_bowtz, {other caffeine junkies}
Caffeine is not nourishment. It is a stimulant.
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That's only because the generic term there is "tonic".
Oh yeah. I guess I picked it up before that.
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Caffeine is not nourishment. It is a stimulant.
Caffeine is not nourishment per se, but Mountain Dew certainly is. I have days where 50%+ of my caloric intake is from Mountain Dew.
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And it's raining really hard
No umbrella, or raining too hard for one?
Driving in such circumstances is acceptable, especially if you can find a Walgreens with one of those free electric charge stations.
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No umbrella, or raining too hard for one?
I live in Washington State. I don't own an umbrella. No true Washingtonians do.
Driving in such circumstances is acceptable, especially if you can find a Walgreens with one of those free electric charge stations.
My hybrid is not a plug-in, alas. I would have gotten a tax credit.
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I live in Washington State. I don't own an umbrella.
This seems like TRWTF.
Obviously just sucking it up and getting wet isn't an option either, I take it. I mean, I wouldn't blame you.
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I live in England where it rains A Lot, and I completely sympathise with blakeyrat not going out in the rain. And I do have an umbrella.
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Driving in such circumstances is acceptable, especially if you can find a Walgreens with one of those free electric charge stations.
I've pondered parking my pickup truck in those spots and plugging in my block heater to see if I could get away with it. And maybe order some kind of "Hybrid" badge to put on my tailgate.
I live in Washington State. I don't own an umbrella. No true Washingtonians do.
Isn't that something like living in the Arctic Circle without heating?
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"So I come here to tell everyone about it."
I'm fine with interaction online, that's a whole separate category.
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I live in Washington State. I don't own an umbrella. No true Washingtonians do.
Lies!!!! I grew up in Washington and I always had an umbrella in my first car. Of course, I lived east of the Cascades, where the rainfall is significantly less than in coastal-Washington.
Just because the Seattle climate is "rain 60% of the time" doesn't mean all of Washington is like that. Most of Washington isn't like that.
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I live in San Diego. What is this "rain" thing that you speak of?
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I've pondered parking my pickup truck in those spots and plugging in my block heater to see if I could get away with it.
You know the outlet's different, right?
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You know the outlet's different, right?
It's not just a standard 120VAC outlet? If you own one of those cars do you have to get an electrician to rewire your garage or something?
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It's not just a standard 120VAC outlet? If you own one of those cars do you have to get an electrician to rewire your garage or something?
You pretty much have to make your neighborhood's electricity grid unsustainable.
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It's not just a standard 120VAC outlet? If you own one of those cars do you have to get an electrician to rewire your garage or something?
Most cars have a "standard" plug--I believe there's one notable exception, that is NOT the US plug.
Generally you have to get a charging station. I think. I don't actually know for sure. Typically you can charge at 120, 220, or 440 volts, depending on how much $ you want to spend on your station.
Maybe there's an adapter for people who don't buy the high-voltage charger? I don't have a plug-in hybrid so I don't really know all the details.
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I don't know much about electric cars. The towns and cities here in the Midwest are too far apart for them to be viable so nobody has them.
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Caffeine is not nourishment. It is a stimulant.
caffeine.... nourishment? ..... epinephrine.. stimulent....
ok! got it!
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I've pondered parking my pickup truck in those spots and plugging in my block heater to see if I could get away with it. And maybe order some kind of "Hybrid" badge to put on my tailgate.
I don't know about where you live, but here the "plug-in spots only for plug-in hybrids or electrics" thing isn't backed by law or anything, just politeness.
Isn't that something like living in the Arctic Circle without heating?
Not at all. For one thing, you (probably) won't die if you stand out in Washington State rain without an umbrella.
I'd say it's more like a "people from Chicago don't put ketchup on hot dogs" type of thing.
Lies!!!! I grew up in Washington and I always had an umbrella in my first car. Of course, I lived east of the Cascades, where the rainfall is significantly less than in coastal-Washington.
Eastern Washington is a different state. You guys are all weirdos.
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Status: Just discovered that 3rd party plugin needed for a project due ASAP requires library calls that have been deprecated for a decade.
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I actually thought that when posting it.
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library calls that have been deprecated for a decade.
Deprecations just another warning to ignore, man. If it were something you had to pay attention to it'd be an error.
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PAN_GALACTIC_GARGLE_BLASTER_NOT_FOUND.
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Status: it's official, the Seattle area broke the all-time rain record for this date. And it's 1:27 PM.
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[Vegetarians eat fish and non-meats]
Nope, not fish. Vegetarians don't eat animals. If they do, then they're not vegetarians.