The missing options (in no particular order):

• With my wife.
• In my parent's basement.
• While dreaming.
• On long flights.
• Through life.
• With anger.
• On a houseboat.
• A true Perl hacker, being lazy, writes a script to sleep for him.

...just silly of course. Fun poll, ysth.

Thank ambrus; all I did was spend 4 minutes looking through the poll quest for something nice.

with my wife? I don't believe that's legal in CA. uhm, how about with my spouse? or my husband. ;) he's my heat warmer!

Well, in my case it's wife, and it should actually read, "I only sleep with..."

"mostly" doesn't have the connotation of exclusivity that would be more accurate. :)




Dave

With my wife. Or husband. Or partner. Or pet. ;-)

Also, I was hoping for the tounge-in-cheek option: while (time < $start_time+$sleep_secs) { }

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A true Perl hacker, being lazy, writes a script to sleep for him.

Reminds me to an entry in You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When...

BTW, would the person who said that children are wonderful explain what's so wonderful about a child speaking in your ear at 2:30 AM? We're never going to get that mark off the ceiling. I had no idea I could do a double backflip with a reverse from a completely relaxed, fully horizontal position. I screamed, my wife screamed, the kid screamed, then my wife was mad because I scared the child. Well, fair's fair, the child scared me, and at least HE was wearing diapers.

This, mind you, after the time where the boy woke us up five times in one night. On the fourth time, I sensed him walk into the room and, without opening my eyes or moving my body, said "boy, you'd BETTER be on fire." After the fifth time, my wife returned to the room, woke me (like I'd be sleeping anyway), and said "Remind me of this if I talk about having another one."

ahh, no doubt many many people will relate to your little tale :)

When my firstborn came along I was living in Alice Springs, Central Australia. My wife and I were thoroughly enjoying our DINK lifestyle (the first definition). I was a shifworker, and used to spend almost all my (substantial amount of) free time either playing golf, or drinking beer after playing golf :D

And then Daniel arrived....

Fair dinkum, during those first few months after we bought him home from the hospital I honestly believed that my life was over. That kid had the most incredible set of lungs, and boy did he know how to use them! ....constantly ...day and night.. sleep? ...hah! I believe at one stage I completely gave up on the idea of trying to sleep, because I knew that I would be woken up almost immediately after I managed to doze off.

But thankfully, he settled down after a month or two and has been an (almost) complete angel in the 17 years since :)

I've almost fully recovered now, although as some people have noticed, I still have a tendancy to yawn quite a bit ;)

As any parent can tell you, the person who came up with the line "he|she sleeps like a baby" to mean "deeply and quietly asleep for long periods" didn't have children.

Nor did the marketdroid who came up with "0 - 3 month" sizes for babies. Everybody I know with full-term babies could no more put the "0-3 month" size clothes on their newborn than one can put a hawser through the eye of a needle.

emc

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

—Igor Sikorsky, reported in AOPA Pilot magazine February 2003.

There is much in what you say, but I think this world is designed by scrawny rice-cake-chompin' people with ethnic backgrounds that are associated with shortness and smallness. I am 6'2" and descended from German farmers, and they do NOT build this world for people my size. Heck, I have trouble getting in and out of Japanese mid-size cars!

I can only imagine what people who are REALLY big and tall, like NBA and NFL players, have to deal with: cars, clothes, etc etc etc. It's just the man keeping us down, I s'pose.

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Where's the option for "in a van down by the river"?

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I've never actually slept on one, but I did lie down on one once, late at night. I could have slept there, easily, it was so comfy... But then I figured the owner of the house might have seen me there and called the cops. ;-)

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if ($married eq 'yes') {
  $location{sleep} = 'doghouse';
}
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"...with one or more dogs trying to shove me off the bed."

...and where are the options for:

• badly
• while driving
• not enough

While it may be legal in CT (see Re^2: I mostly sleep...), my wife would get upset if I were sleeping with davido's. Davido may be upset, too, but I know my wife would be quite angry.

while driving

I have to say that I really love those little rumble strip things on the sides of roads. ... Especially for those times when you've been working 16hr days for 2 weeks straight, trying to get your mail system rebuilt ...

I once fell asleep driving home from work (1 hour drive after several 16 hour days...) and woke up on the shoulder. Heading for a Jersey barrier. Luckily, I missed the crash. I was also very wide awake after that.

emc

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

—Igor Sikorsky, reported in AOPA Pilot magazine February 2003.

I chose "on a bed with a firm mattress", since I sleep in a cave on top of a large hoard of gold, jewels, magical weapons, and the gnawed bones of unwary adventurers. ;-)

... surely i can get that +10 dancing sword out from there, as long as i dont trip over on anything. i went for the boring `hard mattress' option, although mine is a double innerspring, and it's 6' above the floor (and about 3' from the ceiling)
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the dragon bequeaths f00li5h one Ring of Agility +3 in recognition of bravery, but readies the ketchup bottle just in case...

planetscape

It's probably my fault that the options aren't clear but I think that counts as "on a mattress on the floor" because the treasure is not in a bed, but on the floor of the cave.

I have sleep apnea, and meetings are killers.

Umm . . . futon? I don't see it on the list.

I called my futon a hard mattress; close enough.

Perfect! Things are going just as they ought.

'Everybody says "Sleep when the baby sleeps"'

As any parent will tell you, this is impossible: babies only sleep when their parents are awake. The only way around this is to have the grandparents come over, and go to a hotel. This only works with grandparents. Aunts, uncles, cousins, and unrelated baby sitters do not have this magical property.

Of course, when the parents come back the baby, being well rested, is once again prepared to keep his or her parents awake. And God help those who have twins, triplets, or any other multiples. Then, the babies switch back and forth so they're not sleep-deprived by keeping mom and dad up.

emc

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

—Igor Sikorsky, reported in AOPA Pilot magazine February 2003.

In a bed, firm matteress... my bride since 1977 by my side and surrounded by dogs who keep watch.

hehehe, I would put it as:

"In a bed, with a pillow top mattress, with my bride since 1989 and surrounded by dogs who watch!" ;-)

Ditto.

...on my wrist rest. It's more comfortable that it may seem, and the next day I can continue without having the feeling of having been interrupted.

Everywhere else I fall asleep easily. Last time at the dentist (they like to impress clients with their "extra care" and so these days are into taking blood pressure) I impressed them with 72/56. The first couple appointments they thought I was kidding that at least there I can get some sleep. How could dental work compare to the pain at work...?

I'd prefer a firm matress on a sprung devan, the wife a soft matress on fixed so this is a compromise.

Not so loud, your wife might hear you!!!

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And remember, if he succeeds, so what.
- Chick McGee

It's not so big an issue when they're both in the same bed... ;-)

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LOL, that would be a feat since I'm not married :-D

#!/usr/bin/perl
sleep(28800);
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until($my_wife->is_warming_bed){sleep 300}
$me->wake_up('grunt');
exit;
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Or to prevent one from having to look at the browser titlebar to see which characters are being removed:

s/\.\.$//