Ten weird things I do that nobody else does...

[Tigranes]

So when God damns us to eternal punishment, He is acting the opposite of Holy?

Our actions damn us. But God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life. I know you knew it before, but you just like taking cheap shots, evidently.

 

[JollyRoger]

So God only metes out unholiness to those who don't see a temporary death as much of a sacrifice, given that we all die?

 

[Ferocitus]

1. Wake up, go downstairs, roll cigarette, put kettle on, take 10 mg dexedrine.
2. Coffee, cigarette, read arxiv.org, coffee, cigarette, coffee, cigarette.
3. Read comp.lang.fortran, coffee, cigarette, coffee, cigarette.
4. Bong time!
8. Off to work (in lounge room): fire up Civ 6 on one computer and text editor on another.
5. Post nonsense on cfc, coffee, cigarette.
6. Take 5 mg dex.
7. Read more usenet groups, coffee, cigarette, post nonsense on ARK, coffee, cigarette.
9. Take 5 mg dex.
10. Edit, compile, run, coffee, cigarette, build Pyramids. Repeat from 4 until tired.

Total for approx. 28 hours (the length of a day on my planet):
30-40 mg dex, 12-15 coffees, 40-50 cigarettes, >1000 lines of code.

The Enb.

 

[Bootstoots]

I'm pretty sure that general workflow isn't unique to you.

At the beginning of the day, there is the breakfast of champions: bupropion and duloxetine to keep me sane, 8-10 mg loperamide to keep me from having IBS-related diarrhea, and about 2/3 of a caffeine pill to actually wake up for real.

There's less consistency in my drugs. Amphetamine isn't a good match for me because of the horrible crash afterwards, forcing the substitution of a variety of weaker non-phenethylamine stimulants. Coffee is upgraded to more caffeine pills, nicotine has been showing up lately in the form of vaping, and then kratom and sometimes phenylpiracetam in moderate doses.

Subtract most of the bong hits, but add depressants: some combination of alcohol, phenibut, etizolam, and clonidine ought to do it later in the day. The combination varies each day, but usually contains at least two of those, with care not to mix the alcohol and etizolam. I've placed an order of the Russian stimulant/anxiolytic drug bromantane and may be able to subtract other anxiolytics and/or stimulants once it arrives. Please nobody tell the FDA and/or DEA about the Iron Curtain.

Subtract the run - too much work. Subtract the majority of the work - too much work. When I actually do work it consists mostly of code though. Just as much random searching of scientific literature, rarely having much to do with what I'm supposed to be doing, which is aerosol research. I also read a bunch of things, mostly politics, history, economics, and science books written for non-specialists.

Most of these are things are things other people do, but in numerical order that would be:

1. bupropion
2. duloxetine
3. loperamide (not psychoactive)
4. caffeine (along with ~90% of everyone)
5. nicotine (along with ~40% of everyone)
6. alcohol (along with ~60% of everyone)
7. kratom
8. phenibut
9. etizolam
10. clonidine
11. bromantane (not yet but coming up next!)

These are all legal ATM. People who happen to have brains that are reasonably functional without much chemical enhancement are invited to critique those who are pretty much useless without bizarre cocktails of pharmaceuticals, herbs that actually work, and "nootropics". I'm sure that would help.

 

[Ferocitus]

Subtract most of the bong hits...

My "bong hits" are very small, otherwise I wouldn't be able to work as a mathematician.
I use dex and weed because I was recently awarded more letters after my name!
I'm now Ferocitus MSc(App. Maths), PhD(App. Maths/Aerospace Eng.), ADHD(Adult).

I'm waitin for the man,
$5.30 in my hand.

Don't you just love socialist medical care!
Oh sorry, Boots, just remembered what you comrades are going through.

 

[Hygro]

Ferocitus, your cocktail likely interferes with your stage 3 and 4 sleep. I suggest supplementing with 400 mg of chewable l-theanine a day, to improve restorative sleep. L-theanine is the chemical that makes tea less crack-you-out than coffee. It is studied to attenuate dexedrine's sleep effects as well.

 

[Ferocitus]

Ferocitus, your cocktail likely interferes with your stage 3 and 4 sleep. I suggest supplementing with 400 mg of chewable l-theanine a day, to improve restorative sleep. L-theanine is the chemical that makes tea less crack-you-out than coffee. It is studied to attenuate dexedrine's sleep effects as well.

But I love being awake for 20-26 hours per day.
Also:
Health claims for L-theanine are prohibited in the European Union.

 

[Hygro]

But I love being awake for 20-26 hours per day.
Also:
Health claims for L-theanine are prohibited in the European Union.

Hey man, nothing against your long alert days. As a fellow who's gone up to 30 mg of dex, 2 cups of coffee, or later stack bupropion + 10 mg dex and pipe/vape hits I'm passing along secrets for the team. FWIW I'm on SSRIs and off the dex/bup these days.

https://www.researchgate.net/profil...ical_trial/links/53f4244d0cf256ab87b7a283.pdf

 

[Kyriakos]

My "bong hits" are very small, otherwise I wouldn't be able to work as a mathematician.
I use dex and weed because I was recently awarded more letters after my name!
I'm now Ferocitus MSc(App. Maths), PhD(App. Maths/Aerospace Eng.), ADHD(Adult).

I'm waitin for the man,
$5.30 in my hand.

Don't you just love socialist medical care!
Oh sorry, Boots, just remembered what you comrades are going through.

Wow.

I only have a BA :/
Maybe i can get an MA when i return to England.

 

[Ferocitus]

Wow.
I only have a BA :/

Tax-free scholarships and no intention of ever being employed are damn
good motivators! I even managed to bypass under-graduate courses to avoid
paying fees.
From there it was straight back on the dole after my colleague/supervisor
died after retiring.

We need more philosophers in Australia, K.
However, New Zealand has been sending some of its finest here, so the competition is very tough.

Fred Dagg - The Socratic Paradox

Fred Dagg - The Meaning of Life

 

[Ferocitus]

Hey man, nothing against your long alert days. As a fellow who's gone up to 30 mg of dex, 2 cups of coffee, or later stack bupropion + 10 mg dex and pipe/vape hits I'm passing along secrets for the team. FWIW I'm on SSRIs and off the dex/bup these days.

https://www.researchgate.net/profil...ical_trial/links/53f4244d0cf256ab87b7a283.pdf

Thanks for the link to the paper.
I'm still puzzled as to how and why the EU made its determination on L-theanine and sleep disorders etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine

The link to the paper is missing on wiki and I have dozens of
other projects and an empire to run.

 

[thecrazyscot]

9. I drink socially any forms of alcohol, even 70% Mulberry Vodka, with the sole exception of beer. When I was 22 or so I suddenly realized that I never tasted a single drop of beer in my life. So I decided to make it my funny weird "personal fact" and fatefully abstained from any beer (even non-alcoholic), opting for wine instead.

What about root beer??

 

[Tigranes]

What about root beer??

Never even understood the purpose of it Beer already has very little alcohol, do they produce root beer for kids?

 

[red_elk]

I always thought it's just a non-alcoholic beverage, something like kvas.

 

[thecrazyscot]

Never even understood the purpose of it Beer already has very little alcohol, do they produce root beer for kids?

Heh...it's (usually) just a type of soda made with sassafras for a somewhat distinctive flavor. I prefer its taste to coke/pepsi/etc. Nothing "beer" about it tbh. You can get versions with alcohol but those are the exception rather than the rule.

 

[Ferocitus]

Heh...it's (usually) just a type of soda made with sassafras for a somewhat distinctive flavor. I prefer its taste to coke/pepsi/etc. Nothing "beer" about it tbh. You can get versions with alcohol but those are the exception rather than the rule.

My parents had a friend who was always trying out things to save money.
He did many things other people wouldn't do. 10 would be far too many.
He wouldn't have survived that many.

When George found out that you could make alcoholic ginger beer, he decided
that adding extra sugar should give you more alcohol. He made about 500
bottles and stored them in the cellar. He couldn't go down there for over
3 years because bottles kept exploding randomly.

George thought paying $1000 to have a tree lopped down was far too much.
All you need is a chainsaw and one of those belts to hold you onto the tree
while you're cutting! Unfortunately, the ordinary belt used to hold his
trousers up wasn't strong enough and he fell and smashed both ankles.

George fancied himself as a fisherman. He and my father went out in a boat
for an afternoon. They used "cray tail" as bait. That's lobster if you're
not familiar with them. Old ones are sold in petrol stations and bait supply
shops. The two didn't catch anything after an afternoon in the hot sun, but George thought it was a shame
to waste the lobster tail, so he went home and made what he thought was a very
fine mornay from the bait. The poor bastard nearly died of food poisoning
and spent two weeks in hospital.

 

[CavLancer]

My computer doesn't always start. When I try to turn it on in the morning the button depresses but that's it. Later on in the day it starts right up. Temperature, right? Warmer later in the day. So I tried something this morning when it didn't start. Took the side off the box, stuck my wife's iron in the opening and turned it on. Ten minutes later, started no problem. That's what I do different that anyone, I iron my computer.

 

[warpus]

My friend went to a systems party in university once, it was one of the hardest and most intense programs in the engineering and math departments (which contained comp sci). It was known (to students in both departments) for being very demanding, requiring you to take hard math and other courses from a challenging cross-section of disciplines. Also known for attracting really bright people, the geeks of the geeks. Anyway, he goes to this party expecting to see a bunch of geeks playing board games or whatever, but he shows up and everyone's doing coke. That was the day we found out that the geniuses in systems are snorting coke every other day and that's how they get through all the assignments and pulling allnighters to study or code or design circuitboards or whatever. My friend got right out of that party, he wasn't interested in hard drugs

 

[timtofly]

I pour the milk in first, then put in the cereal. I hate soggy cereal and don't understand people who put in the cereal first and get it all soggy by pouring milk all over it.

This is not strange. It is the scientific way to figure out the correct amount of milk you want in the mixture. Even if you put in milk first, it is the speed that you eat that determines how soggy the cereal gets. I usually pour the milk in second on the side until the cereal floats. I like drinking the left over milk.

My strangest food related item is I eat mashed potatoes and gravy topped with cottage cheese. I like eating a mixture of hot and cold food at the same time. I use cold cottage cheese on other hot food types.

The other strange thing I engage in, is I have a collection of 50,000+ DVD's of recorded tv from the last 14 years along with VCR tapes from the 5 years previous to that. At one point I had 8 devices recording at the same time, but currently I am down to only one, until it dies, and then I guess I will stop.

 

[Old Hippy]

The other strange thing I engage in, is I have a collection of 50,000+ DVD's of recorded tv from the last 14 years along with VCR tapes from the 5 years previous to that. At one point I had 8 devices recording at the same time, but currently I am down to only one, until it dies, and then I guess I will stop.

have to ask
do you plan to watch them at some point....