BENTROPY

This is it.  This is where you can come to hear my nonsense.  Lemme start this off right.

I spent about 24 hours of real work putting this thing together.  Bitch and moan, etc.  Considering how little I know about web design, I’m pretty happy with it.  I took a Wordpress theme I liked, learned me some PHP and hacked together some changes.  All in all, a very good 24 hours.  I learned something and created something in one go.

What’s really intriguing, though, is how little I ate while I worked.  Zero.  I ate zero food.  The only calories that went into my body were from ground coffee beans.  As silly as it sounds, this really was an eye opener.  About a year and a half ago today, my friend Max was drinking so much coffee in front of the computer that he literally started to starve.  I wish I had a link to something of his to prove it, ‘cuz then this blog would really be started.  Long story short, his body started to eat itself and he was getting dizzy spells and all that.  Of course I was a supportive friend, but let it be known that I was secretly feeling superior; I had not allowed myself to starve, after all.

But now I get it.  If you steadily drink a slightly higher-than-normal amount of coffee throughout the day–as Max did one and one half years ago and as I did today–you do not become hungry.  By the time I was getting the been-up-too-long-woozies, I realized that I hadn’t eaten since I woke up 24 hours prior.  Thankfully my chair was underneath me while I worked at the computer in case I were to pass out.  If you are a coffee-naif and work with computers, I can totally see how this happens.