posted November 14, 2000 12:09 PM            

Gotta ease into that caffeine, my dear.

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posted November 14, 2000 12:30 PM            

"I don't like coffee. It makes me jittery. Here's an impression of me when I've had too much coffee, 'Hey! What're ya doin'? What're ya doin'? What're ya doin'? What're ya doin'? What're ya doin'? What're ya doin'? What're ya doin'? What're ya doin'? I don't know what you're doin' 'cause I've had too much coffee. I don't knoooooooooooow!' Don't drink too much coffee kids."

I love that bit.

posted November 14, 2000 12:49 PM            

Unfortunately, when I moved to this little college town to attend school, I moved into a really old house with no cable hook-ups Oh, you can get the cable company to add hookups, but for more money than I'm willing to pay. I look forward to getting a decent (= non-temp) job and getting out of this place so I can have cable again. I haven't seen any Space Ghost stuff (aside from the occasional lucky coincidence of it being on at someone's house when I visit) for three whole years now. Ack!

I like the coffee quote -- I'm going to see if I can find a .wav file of it. Hee hee. My favorite Brak song, though, is "Dont Touch Me."

posted November 14, 2000 12:57 PM            

At the end of the week the teacher said "Class, I want you to write a paper using your notes" so I wrote a paper that said "HELLO, MY NAME IS BINGO! I LIKE TO CLIMB ON THINGS. CAN I HAVE A BANANA? EEK EEK!"

I got an F. When I told my mom about it she said "I told you, never trust a monkey!"

posted November 14, 2000 01:47 PM            

"Oh, God, I'm coming DOOOWWWN!"
--That lobster guy from Futurama

Edited to respond to Hallam after dysfractionation

Hallam, do you have "Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast" or "Cartoon Planet"?

--Phase one: collect underpants

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posted November 14, 2000 01:55 PM            

Imagine that your body has a fuel reservoir that it uses slowly normally, like an engine. Caffeine causes you to burn up excess energy in a short amount of time, like a turbo booster, but using the same fuel supply. So caffeine will make you more energetic for a little while, but at the expense of your later fuel supply. So if you drink coffee all day, it's like you're running turbo boosters all day for no real reason, wasting fuel. If you didn't have much fuel supply to begin with, caffeine will only burn what little you have, making you more tired.

According to this theory, caffeine is only good if you need a quick boost at that moment and you can refuel soon.

posted November 14, 2000 02:04 PM            

...So what's phase 2?

posted November 14, 2000 02:35 PM            

*twitch*

posted November 14, 2000 03:23 PM            

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posted November 14, 2000 03:46 PM            

This was a couple years back. My gang and I (maybe eight or nine of us together) went to see Titanic. At the Sony IMAX theater. Where the screen is 40'x90' and you can feel the sound system through the soles of your feet. And we caught a Saturday night showing, which began at 11:00 pm.

You all remember how long that movie is?
So at about 2:30 am we staggered out of the theater, about half of us hanging onto each other and crying, or at least going "Bwaaaah!" (We all liked the movie, okay?) And my friend Jordan looks around at all of us, puts on this huge manic grin, and says "Okay! Who's for coffee!?"

And we all hit him.

The End.

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posted November 14, 2000 06:31 PM            

Er, make programming happen. Yeah.

posted November 14, 2000 06:58 PM            

On a related note, I have ADHD. Caffeine is like a sedative to me. I didn't figure this out, though, until I had a sizeable caffeine addiction, so now I drink it to stave off the headaches. Alcohol, unless I drink a ton, makes me wired. Don't know why, just know it happens.

posted November 14, 2000 07:30 PM            

The thoery is that ADHD and some forms of general hyperactivity are caused by either a lack of dopamine receptors in the brain or undersensitive dopamine receptors. Caffine, Ritalin, most other stimulants, and some really random medications for heart problems and such, all increase the dopamine reuptake process. When regular functioning synapses experience this, it leads to hyperactivity. When underactive synapses experience it, it leads to regular functioning. So yeah, that's why coffee will make some people tired. You may, just possibly, have a shortage of dopamine.

On the other hand, I don't have any idea why having too little dopamine will make ADHD people hyper but having too much after drinking coffee will make other people hyper. I'll ask my professor, though.

[disclaimer] And always remember, I could be completely wrong. [/discliamer]

posted November 14, 2000 09:34 PM            

Eating something, on the other hand, is always an instant upper.

posted November 14, 2000 10:10 PM            

(a rosetta, for those who don't know, is a fern/leaf-like pattern on top of lattes made if the person who made your espresso drink knows what they are doing)

posted November 15, 2000 04:35 AM            

If I had to pick one image to describe my mother, it would be of her, sitting in the kitchen with a cigarette burning, writing a letter to her family in Ireland, while watching a Knicks game, with a cup of tea half drunk next to her, and the kettle already boiling for the next one.

Heh. Wow, that was a tangent, but it just made me really really happy and fuzzy remembering my mom that way. The type of fuzzy that says she is here *right now* looking over my shoulder and laughing.

posted November 15, 2000 07:27 AM            

But let us speak briefly of my evil friend E. Sure, you may look at her and think she is a paragon of beauty. You may listen to her talk and think that she is among the most erudite and interesting people you have ever met.

She is EVIL. EVIIILLL.

I was innocently sitting in Brooklyn waiting for her to pickup her paycheck from the coffee shop when she handed me a cup and said, "Try this." I said, "No thanks: I don't really like coffee." She said, "Just try it."

And lo, my mouth was filled with the sweet nectar of the gods. Coffee unlike any coffee I had known. Coffee that lived up to its aroma, without any bitterness at the end.

So now I am on a rampage, trying desperately to find coffee here that even comes close and being disappointed at every turn.

Feh!!

She even bought me a bag of the stuff, but hasn't sent it yet.

I'm going to curl up in the fetal position now.

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posted November 15, 2000 09:44 AM            

I drink tea, iced or hot. If hot, it's better with cream. If cold, with lemon and no sugar please. I also love hot apple cider. The most common thing I drink is water.

I think the only caffeine I really tend to get is chocolate. That I get A LOT!!I don't know that it affects me all that much.

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posted November 15, 2000 10:27 AM            

I especially like good coffee and tea. I have three coffee machines: an automatic drip, an espresso machine, and a French press. I really like Guatemala Antigua beans from Starbucks. No other bean compares, flavorwise. Right now, I have Sulawesi beans, because I was trying to be different, but it's just not the same.

I have too much tea as well...I think I have about 10 varieties right now. Let's list them, shall we? Bancha, genmai-cha, sencha, green tea powder, sushi bar green tea, jasmine tea, dragonwell tea, lychee tea, English tea (PG Tips), Lipton tea bags (for iced tea), vanilla-almond tea, and cherry blossom tea. Huh. I guess that's more than 10. Anyway, you'll notice that my tea skews heavily towards the Oriental teas. I really dig on the Japanese teas. My fave right now is the genmai-cha, which is green tea with roasted rice. Good stuff.

posted November 15, 2000 10:35 AM            

In my tea cabinet: Monk's Blend, Blue Eyes (herbal), organic pekoe, Blackberry Sage, orange mint (herbal), 2 boxes of Lady Grey (loose and bagged), English Breakfast, Prince of Wales, Cranberry Cove (herbal), green tea with lemon, and one of those General Foods coffee things: white chocolate *drool*.

At work: decaf English Breakfast, decaf Blackcurrant, hibiscus (herbal), Wild Cherry Blackberry (herbal), Apricot Ginger, and yet more Lady Grey.

Man, I'd better get to drinking.

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posted November 15, 2000 03:22 PM            

1) There's a pretty good local coffee shop in Madison that has a fairly extensive line of coffees. Chocolate Raspberry, anyone? Toasted Nut is also really good.

posted November 15, 2000 10:59 PM            

There is a little Cuban diner on 46th street between 6th and 7th Avenues (in nYC) that makes THE Cafe con Leche. I was turned onto it cause my high school was down the block, and wanted to know why everyone had these cups of coffee and blissful looks on their faces.

Owlet, where in Brooklyn exactly where you? I wonder if I can find the place and hook ya up if yer friend doesn't move fast enough on the beans. Lemme know!!!

P.S. The Cuban diner I spoke of used Cafe Bustelo to make their Cafe con Leche. I can vouch for its heavenly flavor in just a plain old drip maker as well. PLUS its one of the cheapest coffees. Its in a yellow and red can.

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