Re: Caffeine (was: Re: Alarmclock puzzle (Slightly OT)) (very OT)
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:36:58AM -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: Years ago I imagined such a pill with a known delay (e.g. the time it would take for the outer casing to dissolve). Pills would be available with different delays (different thickness of casing). Thus, you would take a caffeine tablet with say an 8 hour delay and go to sleep. 8 hours later you would awake feeling alert and refreshed, and as if you'd already had your morning coffee. Nice idea, for the caffeine users. A friend of mine used to keep a 2-litre bottle of Coke by his bed, so that in the mornings he could get enough of a caffeine hit to get out of bed and make the first coffee of the day... Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: [EMAIL PROTECTED] carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- There isn't a noun that can't be verbed. --- signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Caffeine
Hugo Mills wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:36:58AM -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: Years ago I imagined such a pill with a known delay (e.g. the time it would take for the outer casing to dissolve). Pills would be available with different delays (different thickness of casing). Thus, you would take a caffeine tablet with say an 8 hour delay and go to sleep. 8 hours later you would awake feeling alert and refreshed, and as if you'd already had your morning coffee. Nice idea, for the caffeine users. A friend of mine used to keep a 2-litre bottle of Coke by his bed, so that in the mornings he could get enough of a caffeine hit to get out of bed and make the first coffee of the day... :-) M ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Caffeine
Michael Shiloh wrote: Hugo Mills wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:36:58AM -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: Years ago I imagined such a pill with a known delay (e.g. the time it would take for the outer casing to dissolve). Pills would be available with different delays (different thickness of casing). Thus, you would take a caffeine tablet with say an 8 hour delay and go to sleep. 8 hours later you would awake feeling alert and refreshed, and as if you'd already had your morning coffee. Nice idea, for the caffeine users. A friend of mine used to keep a 2-litre bottle of Coke by his bed, so that in the mornings he could get enough of a caffeine hit to get out of bed and make the first coffee of the day... :-) M ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community This reminds me of my alarm clock back in grad school. I got a cheap timer (http://www.collins-consulting.org/orchids/timer2-1.jpg) and a power strip from K-Mart and connected my coffee maker and cassette player (remeber those?) to it. I'd preload the player with my favorite morning cassette, and the coffee maker with water and coffee and place it on a table next to my bed. In the morning, when the timer threw the circuit, the cassette player would pipe in the music and the coffee maker would start with a dripping sound and aroma of freshly brewed coffee... That was a long time ago :-) Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
