JVert's Journal: Fear the monster

Has anyone tried those geeky new engergy drinks? I tried one once a few years back at a lan party, dont know if it was red bull or whatnot but it didn't seem to do much except make me have to pee.

But recently my friend was touting this new drink "monster" he assured me that after drinking a can I would be capable of writing an entire operating system in 15 minutes. Well last week I fell behind on one of my projects and decided to investigate this "monster"...

Usually when I had to "speed up" on a project I would get in early in the morning (people bugging you all day is rather draining so I dont really like staying late) and drink 2 large cups of coffee, and on an empty stomach that would give you a pretty good buzz for about 6 hours. So I was anticipating a similar experiance. I downed the drink in about 3 gulps within 5 minutes.

Immedietly I felt the liquid stirring heavily in my empty stomach for about 5 minutes I was nausious and started to feel a little tingly, I'll have to admit that holding things steady was a bit of an issue, and typing sometimes involved using the backspace key to ffiixx ddoouubbllee ttyyppiinngg. But once I settled down a bit and fired up some digitally imported on my headphones, I was on fire. I would take coding a fuction at a time sometimes stopping halfway but I felt incredibly more focused then ever before. I could work out most of the problem in my head and just hunker down for a good 15-30 lines and be ready for the next one sometimes seamlessly. To say the least it was a great experiance.

I'm not going to finish off with a point. I'd rather go play some games. Maybe i'll write something more interesting next time (and spell check it).