Comments on: PROFESSORS ON COKE

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

WIth all due respect James, having to "medicate" yourself in order to make it thru the stress of sitting in your office for 3 hours waiting for a student to pop in seems, well, rather silly.

BTW The Bemusement Park gets the award for best trackback title.

By: Lucas Wiman

Lucas Wiman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Perhaps academic work isn't all that "demanding," whatever that means, but it certainly is quite tiring. It requires a lot of intense focus for long periods of time, something which few people can acheive without drugs.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

archive rebuild-ignore

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I calculated my average daily caffeine consumption once. It worked out to about 1.5 g. The shakes go away after a while. ;)

By: Brak

Brak — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

"Here's an impression me on coffee..."

http://www.nd.edu/~comet/stuff/coffee.wav

By: The Bemusement Park

The Bemusement Park — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

LIQUID ATTENTION SPAN
So now the Internet professorial types are fulminating about the kind of beverages you need to get through a hard day at the brain factory. The esteemed James Joyner sticks up for coffee: Coffee is the far better alternative in...

By: Arguing with signposts...

Arguing with signposts... — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

The great coffee controversy
Marky Mark Hasty jumps into the fray of the academic caffeine debate (featuring Poliblog, Outside the Beltway, Volokhians and a host of others) to provide the theological side. As an academic who also has half of masters of divinity, I...

By: small dead animals

small dead animals — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

The Coffee Time Big Leagues Over at Outside The Beltway, the "professors" are discussing the relative merits of the metabolic peaks and valleys resulting from coffee vs cola consumption. I can hardly wait for the next installment. "Does the chocolate componant in an 8 ounce...

By: PoliBlog

PoliBlog — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

The Coffee-Powered Academy
Like last night, I am pressed for time, and therefore cannot opine at the length deserved by the precious coffee bean. Still, I must confirm James Joyner's statements that it is true, refined coffee culture has not come to Troy,...

By: Daniel W. Drezner

Daniel W. Drezner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Who wants caffeine?
Think you consume caffiene? See Brad DeLong. Unimpressed? Then go read Jacob Levy's post on his caffeine consumption. Neither of them, however, comes close to approaching the caffeine consumption of Paul Erdos. As he once said, "A mathematician is a...

By: PoliBlog

PoliBlog — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

What a Whiner
I'm not really sure why Glenn is complaining that he might be in the wrong business since everyone knows professors don't have real jobs are all on permanent vacations....

By: Spitbull

Spitbull — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

INTERSTITIAL JAVA
Here's the coffee contribution:

1 teaspoon ground coffee
1 jigger scotch
1 scoop vanilla ice cream

Don't tell me you need directions! Dump the scotch over the ice cream, then sprinkle the coffee on top, okay?

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By: Brad DeLong

Brad DeLong — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Hey. It's not my need. It's the need of the professor I'm calling "Glaukon"... I couldn't drink 40 oz of coke in three hours. 20 oz, yes...

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Of course, the key is to have your own coffee maker. I've found that some good columbian ground can make a long, hot afternoon sufferable. And definitely not the 6 oz coffee makers. Those are for wimps.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

God knows what these people would need to get thru the day if they had real jobs.