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I got fired

Started by gandolf1212 Oct 12, 2006 at 11:50 PM 10 replies 1.6k views
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gandolf1212
gandolf1212
I used to do Dish Network tech support, but as of Tuesday I am unemployed - I am really more happy than anything. Reasons: + I was trading away so much time I'll make more of the unemployment + I'll never have to go back there! + More time to do web sites + More time to program + More time! + Will not have to schedual around them + Will get more back at tax time Still, I don't want to waste this time. It is a pretty rare thing for me to have time and money, and I want to have something to show for it. I was really just wondering if you guys had any sugestions or tips to help me get more done.
I think there's to much blood in my caffeine system.
Ravuya
Ravuya
Here in Canada, you can apparently buy a product called Powershot, which is more or less a pure ampoule of grade-A caffeine.

This is not a tacit endorsement of drug abuse.
owl
owl
Find a part-time job (preferable at night), like "waiter" where you can percieve good tips. Then expend the money in drinking hanging out with women. Sleep till late, and do some programming before going to work again.

Repeat until a better idea comes in.
[size="2"]I like the Walrus best.
Jovan
Jovan
In recent news a man living in Alberta has been diagnosed with Diabetes and is undergoing recovery from drinking too much of what the media calls the "Power Shot".

Film at 11.
Ravuya
Ravuya
Are you kidding? It's got 100mg of caffeine in 30mL of fluid. There's no way I'd get diabetes before renal and circulatory failure.
owl
owl
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It's got 100mg of caffeine in 30mL of fluid.


WTF? Is that a drink or a pill? [lol]
[size="2"]I like the Walrus best.
Programmer One
Programmer One
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It's got 100mg of caffeine in 30mL of fluid.


WTF? Is that a drink or a pill? [lol]


It is an injection you pump directly into the center of your brain.
gandolf1212
gandolf1212
As fun as something called the powershot sounds, I am acctually using this time to detox (you guys wouldn't believe how much I've been sleeping)
Coolest thing is that my laptop is on a table level with my bed, connected through a wireless router. When I went to bed, I turned it off and rolled over - to wake up I rolled back over and turned it on. If I could get the pizza guy to walk in here, I'd be one bucket away from never having to leave.
I think there's to much blood in my caffeine system.
Instruo
Instruo
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I'd be one bucket away from never having to leave.


Have a window accessable from your bed?
"Game Programming" in an of itself does not exist. We learn to program and then use that knowledge to make games.
Ravuya
Ravuya
Back in the hedonistic dot-com days of Everquest, there was at least one chap who had a catheter inserted to deal with the necessary wastes.
soconne
soconne
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Original post by gandolf1212
As fun as something called the powershot sounds, I am acctually using this time to detox (you guys wouldn't believe how much I've been sleeping)
Coolest thing is that my laptop is on a table level with my bed, connected through a wireless router. When I went to bed, I turned it off and rolled over - to wake up I rolled back over and turned it on. If I could get the pizza guy to walk in here, I'd be one bucket away from never having to leave.


You could start playing World of Warcraft and turn into that guy on the last episode of Southpark.
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jffortin
jffortin
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Original post by Ravuya
Here in Canada, you can apparently buy a product called Powershot, which is more or less a pure ampoule of grade-A caffeine.

This is not a tacit endorsement of drug abuse.




Yeah... I bought one of those a year back. They taste really awful.


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Original post by Ravuya
Are you kidding? It's got 100mg of caffeine in 30mL of fluid. There's no way I'd get diabetes before renal and circulatory failure.



From the taste... I guess nobody will have problem with them. And your mouth turns the color of the Powershot you took. So it tastes like the food coloring thing and kinda acts the same. Anyway its 100mg of cafeine and its liquid so it probably acts faster than a pill. So this will probably help you get more done ;).

Another thing to consider... cafeine intoxication. The signs sometime appears quickly and might prevent you from working so if you are still tired and can't work you might think of other solutions.

Be careful not to get to the lethal dose of cafeine. If I remember correctly it is something like 15000-18000mg for coffee. Each coffee is around 60-80mg of cafeine. So I guess you'll get other problems before dying from coffee. Since things like the powershot get absorbed quickly it might take as little as 2000-3000mg to kill you (I think that there was some death cases below 2000mg).


JFF

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