This summer seems to be extremely hot one here in Lithuania. I'm not sure if it is really that hot or it just seems so, because it is the first summer that I am spending at work sitting in a small server room with no windows coding Perl...

The number of beverages currently on my desk is 0, however there is a nice crate of mineral water under the desk. I hope that qualifies ;)

The temperatures have been reaching past +30C here (how much of that is in Farenheit? I must hack up a script to do the conversion in Perl sometime) and it is impossible to stay indoors without any drink. And don't even think about coding without a nice cold bottle of some kind of drink by your side.

Number of overflowing Ashtrays: 3
Grams of fag ash trapped in keyboard: ~200
Force required to unstick escape key due to 'spillage': 3.6Newtons

SMiTZ

It's not just Lithuania..

We (here in Calgary) have been hitting mid 30's for the past couple of weeks. Normally we don't see that kind of weather till later in the year. Mind you I'd rather have the +30's than the -30's that we were hitting 6 months ago ;)

Oh, and 7-10 for me - 4 coffee cups, 2 pop cans, and 1 water bottle.

Howdy!

30C is right seriously warm, especially if that is indoors. (Oh, that's 86F).

I'm counting my coffee mug in my reply...

yours,
Michael

thanks michael by the way whats the conversion factor

The temperatures have been reaching past +30C here (how much of that is in Farenheit? I must hack up a script to do the conversion in Perl sometime)

Here ya go.

perl -le 'print (((9/5) * shift) + 32)' 30
86
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86 degrees F isn't that bad, unless there's lots of humidity. The moisture in the air is what'll get ya.

It is currently 102F (39C) outside here :(
I wish it were only 32C.

I've noticed that since I got married, the number of containers I store on my desk against the coming aluminum can and mold shortage has dropped drastically. And since I no longer smoke indoors, I've no need to store pounds of ash and thousands of filters within easy reach.

Of course, I still voted 4-6. I'm an old rat, and picking up after myself is still a relatively new trick ;)

Before I brought in my own beverage container, I had built up a huge collection of coffee sleeves. It was at 27 even with my reusing sleeves.

Now I just have my mug, (With a cover of course, because it's against Intel policy to have an open container), and a water bottle. I have to bring my water from outside, there's too much chlorine in the Intel water.

And the formula for F -> C
(F - 32) * 5/9 = C

And the formula for F -> C
(F - 32) * 5/9 = C

I just remember that 28C == 82F, and that 16C == 61F, so I just pick the one closest to the current temperature (its never far from either here in So.Cal.), and add or subtract the difference ( 1C == 9/5F (or ~2F)).

Update:Of course, I know that 0C == 32F, but its not something I usually have to think about, unless I leave the freezer door open :-)
(16C is considered cold here)...

A friend taught me this rhyme that helps me out a lot in estimating Centigrade temperature:

30 is hot,
20 is nice,
10 is cold,
and zero is ice.

-- Mike

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just,my${.02}

My memory rule is that -40F == -40C and that 0C == 32F. And I learned that from a Donald Duck Comic.

Don't know if it's true, but I once heard that when Farenheit "invented" his scale, he choose "a cold winter day" as 0 F and "his body temperatur while beeing ill" as 100 F. One might argue that the temperatur water freezes/boils is rather arbitrary, too, but at least you can reproduce it everywhere (give the same air pressure...)

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#!/usr/bin/perl
for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}
[download]

No, it was a little more direct than that. He chose "body temperature" as 100F (although he didn't measure it accurately, it appears), and the coldest mix of brine he could make (sea water heavily salted) as 0F.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

Cheers!

The bottle has a nice high-tech touch, in that the label has a little star printed in thermo-sensitive ink. Invisible at the wrong temperature; blue at the right temperature (between 6 and 8 degrees Celsius).

...I'd like to have the name of that beer. (or is it 1664? I presumed that was the first item in a list of two) :-)

Anyway, I'd like to see that sort of device on many of the more hearty beers that should not be served icy cold. Fat Tire (from Colorado) is often served in bars at a temperature much too cold for optimum taste. On the other hand, there'd probably have to be a different temperature rating in the UK from that used in the US.

Americans are known to prefer their beers much too cold. What our British bretheren do not understand is that prior to the last decade, almost all American beer was so horrid that the cold temperature was to protect us from tasting it at all.

---v

The beer is indeed named 1664 (after the year that the brewery was founded).

We Australians also like our beer served cold. Personally, I can't abide the muck they serve in the UK. Far too warm for me. But you get used to anything I suppose :)

Australian beer has gone through a renaissance in the past fifteen years, with a lot of small breweries setting up operations and giving the industrials a big scare. If you ever get to Oz, try a James Boag or a Cascade (both from Tasmania) or anything by Coopers (Ale, Lager, Stout) from South Australia. Do not ask for a Fosters. Anything would be better than that.


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...I'd like to have the name of that beer. (or is it 1664? I presumed that was the first item in a list of two) :-)

1664 is made by Kronenbourg (now owned by Scottish & Newcastle). One of the highlights of advocate's student exchange trip to Strasbourg last year was a trip to their brewery.

I have 3 bevvie containers on my desk, but regrettably none of them ever contained any beer. About 7 years ago I worked on a project for Bass Brewers which involved visits to several trial sites located in pubs. That was pretty cool. :)

coffee mugs with a growing ecosystem of fungi inside = 3; cigarette butts strewn around ~~ 200; empty cigarette packs ~~20; crushed coke cans = 9; days since i exercised = a month probably or more; perl justifies it all, i suppose;

Almost all Dr. Pepper - for the caffiene content of course.

Some people fall from grace. I prefer a running start...

Ahhh, the breakfast of champions! Someday I hope to find one of them foam sleeves large enough to keep a 3-liter bottle cold, that I might increase my dosage with fewer trips to the fridge.

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He seemed like such a nice guy to his neighbors / Kept to himself and never bothered them with favors
- Jefferson Airplane, "Assassin"

Sleeve???? You amateur. Mine's hooked up to an IV drip ; )

Some people fall from grace. I prefer a running start...

Pepper...once you try Pibb you'll only remember what Pepper tasted like. I remember the first time I had Mr. Pibb...it was at Lost Valley Boy Scout Camp...the soda machine in front the of the Grace Site Trading Post over 15 years ago.

Don't get me wrong: When the Pibb is gone Pepper will do in a pinch.

Although the new Pibb Xtra is a bit too sweet for my tastes plus not to mention I can't get Pibb here...I have to have it shipped in because of the lame licensing agreements the bottlers have.

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Sean Shrum
http://www.shrum.net

alot of people say mr.pibb and dr.pepper taste exactly alike, sometimes ill go to a restaurant and order a dr.pepper and they bring me a mr.pibb thinking i wont be able to tell the difference, i send it back and get coke..

i have a tux mug from thingkgeek.com, a steel mug (that i love) that i got from exxon, and a bottle of water...there's about 7 empty cans of dr.pepper in my trash, but i wont count those...guess you can tell which soda i like

Update: It's a bit warm here...102 F.

I currently have 0, had 3 just half an hour ago. Believe it or not, Saskatoon is hittin 30+ (Celsius) lately and our air conditioner blew out last week! So I have been chugging away at liquids while typing away :L

I only voted 1-3 as they are 'active' containers.

I do have 7 others (ubiquitos vendor coffee cups) that line the top of my cubical from vendors that I consider 'inactive'

8 if you coun't the pencil coffe cup :)

I also have my starbucks thermos mug that keeps coffee HOT HOT HOT for a few hours. It's one of the best investments I've ever made.

To top them off, lately I've been collecting Coffee Mugs. I have my whipping boy mug, my Flex the Geek mug, and of course I have my caffeine mug from thinkgeek. No collection would be complete.

C-.

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Flex the Geek

I not only have 5, but they're each of a different type! I have a water bottle, a can of Coke (currently in service), a mug (holding pens and whatnot), a large travel-cup (ostensibly for coffee, but I can't stand the stuff, despite being from Seattle), and a coconut (from "tropical drink Friday" a couple of weeks ago). I'm willing to bet I'm the only monk with a coconut on his desk...

He could grip it by the husk...

since i dont have anyone here at work to take them away noone does. But you cant see most of them cause they are covered by other stuff like several o'reillys, cds, papers, cables, ... ;)

I think i'll go and have another water ...

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NaSe
:x

Actually, I said 1-3 but I also have 2 mason jars that technically could be used for water, too. Alas, I use them for something else *but* I *used* to use them for water. Does that count? :)

That's pretty much it besides the phone and the absurd number of machines on this poor desk 'o mine along with a bunch of books and other things that a lonely IT/IS professional should never do without (ie pics of the fam and old employers' data centers, an 8 ball, and huge stash of pens and paperclips, and last but not least a grease board).

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- Jim
Insert clever comment here...

• 1 can of redbull (in use)
• 1 penguin mug (sacred chalice used only for BrassMonkey or weird concoctions like Kahlua/Yoohoo)
• 1 foul smelling steel coffee mug

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perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"

I am torn between voting 1-3 and 11-15. It seems somehow lacking to stick to the technically correct definition of my coffee cup^H^H^Hbucket as one container.

That was written in levity but come to think of it, I have been known to just sit down with the entire pot, and that holds about a dozen cups.

Coffee: addictive like crack, but with none of the aftertaste.

LAI
:eof

elbieelbieelbie

Ha! How about a gallon of Iced Tea? I just brought it in from the sun. I'm working from home today, so I thought I'd take advantage of the opportunity (to make iced tea AND get some sun (wireless rocks!))
Generally I'll have three at work:
• Coffee to start the day,
• a pop from lunch,
• and water till I head home...

Here at work:
1 insulated coffee mug half full
1 Dr. Pepper can almost empty
1 empty water glass

Home:
None. My wife made me throw them out two days ago. :(
I miss them greatly. I had a nice big collection going too!
I must have had at least 36 empty DP cans strown about.
We had some good times together. I would start feeling run down
so I'd pop open another one and start chugging.
Next thing I know, I'm feeling great again and ready to keep on working!

My thoughts are mine and mine alone.
They did not originate with the voices in my head.
Do not listen to what they say, it's all lies.

Ouch, I know how that feels. Every Wednesday night (Thursday is recycling day) my wife collects the corpses of my fallen comrades all the flat surfaces within arm's reach of my desk and dumps them unceremoniously in the bin at the curb.

On a happier note, I finally found my 52oz insulated mug in the garage and am making that a permanent fixture of my desk at work. Despite the fact that its size is not a power of 2, it makes me happy by reducing my trips to the breakroom fridge. Laziness, after all...

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He seemed like such a nice guy to his neighbors / Kept to himself and never bothered them with favors
- Jefferson Airplane, "Assassin"