• Physics Phil (unregistered) in reply to distilled
    distilled:
    peterb:
    Hmm.... 4,1 l of beer, presumably at 5% - a typical male should be around 0,13%.
    Isn't that well within "Ballmer peak". I think I should try that sometimes
    I don't know about him, but for me that would be on the left-hand-side. My Ballmer peak is a lot further to the right, and occurs at what is definitely a dangerous level of alcohol. The code produced worked very well, compiling correctly first try, but was uncommented, hackish, and "clever", and had a misspelt variable name which was subsequently correctly misspelt everywhere I had used it, However, the code was very good, so I kept it.
  • Xenobiologista (unregistered) in reply to kmerkle

    "Addiction is a disease" or "addiction is just laziness" are both oversimplifications of the issue. People who are addicted to something have very little control over it, but rarely absolutely "no control".

    And in the first place, it's impossible to NOT know alcoholism and drug addiction exist, so people who get addicted are idiots who think they're superhuman - the "I can stop any time I want" trap.

    One of my coworkers used to work late and drink beer in the lab while nobody was around. One night he sent out drunk emails to all the other lab members AND drunk-dialed our PI (Principal Investigator; science-ese for "boss") and obviously got in a lot of trouble. After that he straightened up and stopped drinking at work and cut down significantly on recreational drinking outside work.

    I'm sure people with severe drinking problems have had many incidents like this along the way where someone caught them but chose to ignore the warning signs. So at the same time, serious alcoholics aren't in control of themselves, but it's their own damn fault they lost control.

  • OBloodyhell (unregistered) in reply to TopCod3r
    TopCod3r:
    That is a prime example of why on my development team, I have told everyone they are not allowed to drink. Because even if you drink while you are away from work, it could affect your code the next day. Also, on my team you are on call 24x7, so if you drink while you are away from work, you are still technically drinking on the job so to speak, which in my opinion is a fire-able offense. And when I recommend someone gets fired, I think my boss will listen to me.

    You know, I really, really don't drink, but I can say that working for a controlling jerk like you would drive me to it.

    And I've never known a programmer worth a crap that would put up with that kind of busybody control freak, either.

    :-/

  • OBloodyhell (unregistered) in reply to TimmyT
    TimmyT:
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    The Real WTF is Vodka and Root Beer! Yeech.

    I would normally agree except Trader Joes has this vanilla bean cream soda which when mixed with a decent non-flavored vodka is pretty amazing...

    Prolly works better with coconut rum.

  • josh (unregistered) in reply to A Sysadmin

    no but he did start a fire in the server room

  • Derek (unregistered)

    My favorite vice is a double dose of Daytime Thera-Flu. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy all afternoon..... and the code just flows from my fingers.. hummmmmm.... ;)

    The on special days I break out one of my bottles of correction fluid from the 1970's for a few whiffs.... whooooo... whooo.....

  • (cs) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    Sir Meowmix III:
    TopCod3r:
    ...
    ....
    Congratulations, you have been trolled.

    Is it just me, or is TC getting past the "Wow! That guy makes a well-disguised point!" to "Fuck, there's that attention-whore again!"?

    P.S. No offense, TC. I used to like your posts, and how they made me think. Now they're just obvious flame-baits.

  • Sork (unregistered)

    Burt only did his roots iteratively.

  • Tilman Baumann (unregistered)

    We have a vending machine that offers three kinds of beer in our company. I needed some time to figure out that this was a big deal for our visitors from abroad. (We are in southern Germany)

    PS: And no one was drunk at work. But it encouraged us to stay longer at work.

  • jacob (unregistered) in reply to The Coffey Maker

    your comment was a lot more interesting than the article...

  • Blarg (unregistered)

    Weird and sad-funny. Why must the waitress be cast as a "seductress" though?

  • Mik (unregistered)

    No WTF here...this is sad.

  • JMB (unregistered) in reply to Daniel

    Actually, it's a delicious combo. As I recall, it's called a black mamba, or something similar.

  • TheClassic (unregistered) in reply to Daniel

    Root beer and vodka is actually quite good.

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  • dreamkotadotcom (unregistered) in reply to David

    Try it with rum.

  • (cs)

    Man... reading this, I'm sad I never got to see TopCod3r in action for real, just by reading old threads.

    P.S. Hi, spammers!

  • NintendoLegend.com (unregistered) in reply to The Coffey Maker
    The Coffey Maker:
    The EXACT same thing happened in my office. Except instead of root beer, it was meth. And instead of passing out & pissing in a plant he shot himself & lived. Then three months later he over dosed and got hit by a truck. So I guess it wasn't the exact same thing...

    You, my friend, are a talented writer. Thank you for a laugh.

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  • Cotsios (unregistered) in reply to TopCod3r

    You sir are a stuck up prick. I assume your employees are 24x7 only some times in the month. It is none of your business what they do after work, they can be junkies if they want, as long as they get the work done.

  • (cs)

    In a drawer in my computer desk, I have the following:

    1. One bottle blended scotch whiskey
    2. One bottle single malt scotch whiskey
    3. One bottle irish whiskey
    4. One bottle gin
    5. One bottle rum

    And in a refrigerator in the office kitchen, I currently have four bottles of Dos Equis.

    That said, I don't drink much. This year, I have had two small drinks of irish whiskey. The bottle of gin has never been opened -- at the time I bought it, I was taking medicine that you shouldn't take with alcohol and so I felt a strong desire to buy the gin so that I would have it once I finished the medicine. But once I finished the medicine and could therefore drink the gin, I felt no need to drink the gin.

    In the two months since I bought the six pack of beer, I have drank two of them with my supper on two occasions. I bought the rum to take to a party about ten years ago and haven't touched it since. I have no idea when I bought the blended scotch.

    Sometimes I get Guinness. It's main attraction for me is that after drinking one, I don't even want another for at least a week whereas with regular beer, I don't mind drinking one every time I eat hamburgers, Mexican food, or German sausage.

    The strange part was that several months ago, I opened that drawer up to get some papers in it and found that the bottle of blended scotch whisky which had been nearly full was nearly empty. There were two bottles of gin in there that were empty. My first thought was that it was evaporation, but there were three bottles behind those three and they were all very nearly full.

    The only thing I can figure is that someone in the office helps themself from time to time. I'm not particularly upset about this, but I am incredibly curious about who it is.

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