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It is a common stereotype that hackers drink coffee after coffee, or pop caffeine pills like candy to stay awake and alert. So let's find out if it's true!
Me, I prefer stacker 2's.... I type like a mad man and dish out quite a few web projects in a short amount of time. Not to mention it helps shed a few pounds that I gain from sitting in this office all day! :)
i just sleep all day on saturday and sleep wednesday nights...dont sleep the rest of the week
hehe...need no drugs to keep me awake...i support a m$ based network...that keeps me awake plenty... :D
To shed pounds I'd rather not destroy my kidneys and liver. I mean, I've got allot of alcohol to drink, so I don't want put anymore stress on those vital organs. As for coffee, I only drink a 8oz. cup a day. So what motivates me to sit in front of the comp..........thirst for knowledge.
The smell of toothpaste will keep ya awake, hold on Im adding that to the poll.
After a couple hours of doing code I start getting a little sleepy. Coffee doesn't cut it anymore for me. Redbull wore off after a few weeks. But the stackers wake me right up and I usually end up being about two times more productive because of the hyperness I get. Not to mention I end up posting a lot more to AO. :)
I drink a crap load of Coffee. Also X-drink (available at thinkgeek.com) That isn't what keeps me awake though. I can drink mass amounts of caffene, and still fall asleep right away. Its the computers that wake me up themselves. That the the little electrical plug comming out of my right leg....
I sleep. :)
Drugs and beer :) :)
I don't particularly care for coffee, so go for the energy drinks instead...RedBull does infact give you wings if you slam enough of them fast enough...LOL.
As I said before:
Feel the machine, live the machine, be the machine. :hippy:
Harmony of the High Tux............................
Motivation is always the BEST thing that keeps me awake, Coffie is only the second!
I prefer Turbo Truffles (150 mg of caffine ea.), Zompo's , and Sky Rocket (100 mg of caffine per 1 oz. serving). Caffine is my friend, and the fact that I don't sleep very well anyway doesn't help much either.
The machine and secound coffee. My computer keeps me awake for hours on end.
Just looking at that white stuff between your toes when you take your socks off is enough for me to stay awake for days on end...
Caffiene, and the adrenaline rush I get after making love.
Music. I can hardly focus on anything without some sort of a music...that I like.
COOOFFFFEEEEE....neeeeddd mooorrreeeee..... ;)
One word, I love BAWLS, it is available from thinkgeek.com. That stuff has a kick to it, and it tastes very good!
I don't believe in sleep...
God bless,
--PhirePhreak
I drink a lot of Coca-Cola and eat some sweet stuff...and it helps me gain weight, I'm one skinny geek at 150pounds :P
Well I don't drink coffee or tea and very little coke - but a couple of vodkas & redbull usually do the trick - either that or the near constant stream of cigs I smokewhilst sitting in front of my computer >_<
v_Ln
I dont know what my problem is but I am awake till 4 am every night and wake up at 8am I set the clock on purpose so I would go to bed earlyer at night but no such luck. So as always Ill be awake tonight again till 4 wide eye and bored with the infomercials. Life really sucks when you cant sleep. Sometimes coffee will put me to sleep.
hmm for me... its the machine that keeps me awake.. second, BOXES of Pringles and CANS of 7up or Sprite. but mainly its the machine.. dunno.. when i watch TV i get tired.. when i read books.. i get tired.. but when im on the computer.. heck i can stay up 24/7 hehehee
Should be an asorted cola brands option in the poll
I can´t believe that I´m the only one that sustains himself on cola alone :)
then of course there's chocolate covered espresso beans...woooohoooo...handful of those...sleep is but a distant memory...
i feel bad for you that you need to "make love" and that it doesn't come naturally to you.
As for me, when I find myself getting tired, I just crank up the 100w amp.
I wake up at 5:00 in the morning. Work till 5:00 at night. Go play pool until about 1:00 or 2:00...drinking beer the whole time. Then do it all again the next day. Not too sure how I get anything done. What keeps me awake....? I don't really know.
From the time i wake up until i go to bed, that computer is on and in use, LoL. Before long i think i will devise a way to control the computer from my mind while i am sleeping
Andrew
Oh wait..i never said what keeps me awake. LoL. I dont know what it is, but i just have a natural attraction to be on the computer from morning to night.
Sorry about that
Andrew
the sprite, gums chips .... they just don't do it for me forget about the drugs and coffee not quie that either.... beer that reserved for my ex roomate (saw him code for 37hrs staright in c holding just with beer he didn't even pass out)
so i get a lighter and i burn that smoke and it make me think about some totally unrealted stuff that takes me miles away form the screen and i guess time for one more !
The remedi for Sleepy-ness
1) Eat an entire pack of Dexstrose Energy Tabz
2) Wash it down with a TVR
*1 part Tequila
*1 Part Vodca
*1 Part Red Bull (Or equivelant)
3) Rin around your romm 20 times while listening to the theme song for Mortal Combat.....
I was up 48h after doing this once.....very effective....
:D :D :D Hope that helps
-Noia
i like nabylbt's idea, hehe
I actually have calluses on my thumb and index finger from twisting the lid back on and off of my 20 oz Diet Dr. Pepper....not real attractive on a girl! :D