Why?! Well that’s simple, I able to function on only 3 hours of sleep!
Now you may ask why I only have 3 hours sleep. Well that also is simple, and if you are a hacker I’m sure you’ve had this experience more than once in your life and most likely in the past couple of weeks.
You are up against a hard bug and need to ship the product soon. So you spend until 11:30 pm trying to fix it before you give up and decide that you are doing more damage than good. So now it’s time to make the 45 minute commute home on the 280. Half way home you come up with what could be the fix, so once you get home you jot it down and decide it’s probably better for you to get some sleep and fix the bug in the AM. Well guess what? Your mind says, “Dude, you think I’m going to let you sleep? No way, you are going to think about this until you fix it” I hate when my mind does this to me! So yes you get out of bed and try your fix! Well this time mine didn’t work and kept me up until 2pm in the process. Now I’m supper pissed and need to get some Zs, so I try to crawl back in bed. Of course my mind is still spinning and the only way to solve this problem is a heavy dosage of the mind melting Boob Tube! It worked perfectly until I woke up the fantastic “Girl Gone Wild” DVD infommercial at 5am, of course I couldn’t make it back to sleep. So it’s back to trying to fix the bug, before I know it’s 7am and time to take a shower and leave for work.
This is where my friend the Glorious Coffee Bean comes in clutch. Man, I love that bean!
I love it. That chronicals the mind of a hacker perfectly. Somehow your SO never seems to understand why you are getting out of bed at 2:00AM to fix a bug. Well it is because it is making you fucking nutz — that’s why. : )
We just got a Saeco Superautomatica Espresso maker at work.
It waits for me in the morning, and when I walk in it yell’s: “Who’s your daddy?!” Before long I’m pressing the button waiting for my two shots to come out the other side.
Damn I hate that thing.
I’m up at 2am right now, but it’s the baby keeping me up these days. Along these lines, I remember sitting straight up in bed in the middle of the night once. When Julian asked me what was up I answered “My dream crashed”.
Christopher, I think we may have a similar machine over in marketing. Do you a random selection of single serving coffee grinds in what look to be cheep “maple syrup” cups?
Candace, didn’t you try pushing some crazy herbal remedy on me for this problem? How is Griffin doing? He hasn’t been posting on his blog all that much these days.