The Lair

I find myself remarkably productive when I stay at home, devoid of the distractions provided by the internet. It seems slightly strange, but when I really want to get some work done (D-Day being a couple of weeks away, it’s not like I have a lot of choice) - I stay at home. I unplug myself from the internets, after having gathered sufficient material to get my work done… and stuff occasionally gets done. Oh and I play Capture-The-Flag Quake 3 with bots too. And Tetris. And the occasional round of DesktopTD. Actually, this isn’t about my bizarre work habits or my internet-avoidance-as-work strategy but about diet.

There has already been a post on circadian rhythms and diet so let me hop on the “near enough to be tangentially related” bandwagon. When I stay at home, I eat differently. Specifically, I make myself something to eat roughly (it’s an inexact thing) every four hours. Considering that I fix my own food, it’s really easy to time. Contrast this with the usual workday, where I tend to subsist on random vending machine and junk food eaten more or less every hour when I go walkabout. I also invariably eat lunch when I’m at home, since I can fix my own (hot) food. I got tired of the samey fare and long walking distances involved in lunch at the department a long time ago.

And in random IRC chatter (hilarious in or out of context), there was a too-much-information conversation about confectionary related skidmarks on underwear. No. Don’t ask how that started. Something about missing drawers and going commando, I think it was. That in turn led to interesting marketing slogans for various uh… bars. Complete with juvenile yet funny innuendo.

Snickers has “get some nuts” and Mars has “pleasure you can’t measure” (which works really well with the mental image of sliding a chocolate bar into your pants, does it not?). There is also the local favourite Yorkie bars with an interesting slogan. There is even an official military version of the Yorkie bar (with a slightly different slogan).

Any more confectionary slogans that work will with the uh… inadvertent skidmark theme? No? Me nether (sic).