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Red Bull and And Vodka

[spencerogden]

I believe the original version of this was mixing Red Bull with vodka. A suprisingly good tasting drink. Just the thing to get the night started.

Best coding job I ever did

[OpMindFck]

was between about 3AM and 7AM on a Sunday morning with a project due Sunday night at midnight. I had been out drinking and was on my third cup of coffee back in my dorm room when I had the most joyous experience in my life. I wrote C code for 4 hours without compiling. Then, as I was getting ready for a power nap, I tried a compile. It worked. No syntax errors. Then I ran the sample data though. No errors. I was done. And it was all thanks to the miracle of caffeine mixed with about 8 shots of vodka. I got an A in 15- 213 that semester by using that same strategy right up to finals. Thanks Grey Goose!

Two thoughts:

[Pathwalker]

1. Didn't I hear of some Canadian company making a caffinated beer years ago? ( I think I found it - Rethink Beer [rethinkbeer.com] (warning - annoying flash site)).
2. When I was in grad school, and I needed to concentrate for an all nighter to whip the last bits of a project into shape for a demo in the morning, I would usually have a big mug full of of espresso on one side of my desk, and a bottle of scotch on the other. If I was feeling tired, I would sip from one, if I was too stressed out and twitching, I would sip from the other. It worked quite well in the short term, but really burned me out over the long term...

It's good to know that in the second case, had the stress caused a stroke, I might have had a little protection.

Re:Red Bull and And Vodka

[gl4ss]

fact remains that it is one of the most popular drinks in bars nowadays(energy drink + clear alcohol, usually vodka), though, the real reason why i thin it is popular is because the strong taste of energy drinks is very good at hiding the alcohol, so it becomes ideal to drink it at the point of almost vomiting.

well, finnish energy drinks are watered down versions of middle europe counterparts anyways(can't have that much drugs in them..).

It happens

[renehollan]

... though not due to booze.

I once hacked up a wire-wrapped 6809-based embedded system with an associate, had a monitor ported to it just burned into EPROM.

We were hooking up a 'scope to see if, of all basic things, some address decoding PALs were working, and powered it up, and...

...got a monitor prompt. It was rather freaky, as we certainly weren't expecting it to be glitch free.

(It wasn't quite -- DRAM refresh circuitry was hosed, and it would die about 20 seconds after boot, but still. Though, I vaguely remember us hand-assembling a 60Hz interupt-drivern software refresh a la 8088 IBM PC, and keying it in via the keyboard, before the RAM got amnesia). DRAM tends to stay far longer than specs would suggest, at least in those days.

Re:Red Bull and And Vodka

[Anonymous Coward]

-- BE CAREFUL -- with Red bull & vodka... Just a little personal advice from me as I have first-hand experience of this...

I had 3 red bull & vodkas one night last summer... Oddly enough, I just didn't get drunk, so I kept drinking more. Then as we were on our way down to the club, suddenly it was like a kick in the head. I still didn't feel entoxicated, but my heart was racing, my pulse was weak and it felt like I was going to faint. My friends had to help me walk back home. I remained in this state for about 20 minutes.

And the odd part is, rb&v was my "standard" drink, I had had lots more than this, many times before without anything like this happening! I was only 22, I have no allergies, I was physically fit with a good cardo-cascular capacity and absolutely no heart problems or similar.

This really scared me, just as it scared the people I was with.

Today, I never have more than 1 rb&v per night - NEVER! You might want to learn something from this.

- Kybernetos.