From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:34:03 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Coffee In-Reply-To: <01c901d2a329$0f403b20$2dc0b160$@ronnatalie.com> References: <01c901d2a329$0f403b20$2dc0b160$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: Possibly NSFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdCslFcKFU On 3/22/2017 12:26 PM, Ron Natalie wrote: > Early on when I was consulting for what would become my company, I got stuck > on a weekend to fix something with the coffee pot and a box of Entenmann's > chocolate donuts. These have a coating that's kind of like wax you have to > soften up in the hot coffee to be digestable. As a result of that weekend > any crunch time was referred to as waxy chocolate donut time. Another > crunch weekend I was working on the firmware for an esoteric digital data > tape player. I would test it. Find the fault. Go to one machine > running Xenix on a 286 which had the editor and the assembler. I'd then > floppy it over to a DOS machine that had the EPROM burner. I then would > take the eprom and stick it into the controller. The president of the > company had two jobs. He was to follow behind me and refill my coffee cup > and scarf up the used EPROMS and dump them into the eraser so we wouldn't > run out of ones to program. > > For years, we were a six person company of which only me and the president > drank coffee. When the one pot we made in the morning was gone, that was > it for coffee. As the company got larger and there were more coffee > drinkers, people would just make a new pot. This coincided with me having > my office moved adjacent to the coffee maker. Every time I had a long > compile or something I'd look down and see my cup was empty and I'd pop > outside and get a new cup. Not surprisingly, I started to get heart > palpitations. The doctor asks how much coffee I drank, and I tell her > something like thirty cups a day. She tells me I may want to cut back on > that. > > My best job was working for a friend whose company operates out of his home. > He'd make espresso for me and we'd drink that (and eat his wife's excellent > leftover food) until about six and then being another wine judge, we'd > switch to wine. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bradshaw [mailto:tfb at tfeb.org] > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 8:51 AM > To: Ron Natalie > Cc: Dave Horsfall; The Eunuchs Hysterical Society > Subject: Re: [TUHS] Were all of you.. Hippies? > > I don't know about other people, but I think the whole dope thing is why > computer people tend *not* to be hippies in the 'dope smoking' sense. I > need to be *really awake* to write reasonably good code (if ever I do write > reasonably good code) in the same way I need to be really awake to do maths > or physics. So I live on a diet of coffee and sugar and walk around > twitching as a result (this is an exaggeration, but you get the idea). I > have the strength of will to not use stronger stimulants (coffee is mostly > self-limiting, speed not so much). > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: