Help! I’m Morphing into a Caveman!
June 26, 2007 – 6:52 pmA good portion of my time is spent working at home. Sometimes, when I’m working on ThemBid.com the world around me ceases to exist as I enter “the zone”. This state can last days where sleep is minimal (and even my dreams are of ThemBid.com these days) and this leads to what I call the “Caveman Syndrome”. This is the stage when you look in the mirror and you begin to look like this guy. Following are the tell tale signs and symptoms along with suggested cures.
- If children scream and run away when you approach, time to shave and comb that hair buddy.
- If you check Digg.com more than once per day you may need to physically remove your F5 button and program the refresh button in your browser to pop up the words “Get Back to Work!” (if you know how to reprogram your browsers refresh button, you may be beyond help)
- Showering, brushing teeth, cutting your nails and related tasks are just as important as making a nicely done SVN commit.
- There is more to eating than chips, candy and soda/coffee. And no, I don’t mean beer.
- If family members and friends back away slowly from you while talking with you, or you notice their eyes growing wider, maybe its time to do some cleaning up.
OK, break time over. Exercise your fingers and share your story, then Get Back to Work!
2 Responses to “Help! I’m Morphing into a Caveman!”
LOL. Gad — that hit so close to home I was almost afraid I had been blogging in my sleep!
As all good developers know, there are four basic food groups: Red Bull, Pizza, Chips, and Beer. Personal hygeine and sleep is for wusses, and Digg should be outlawed for anybody trying to do serious work.
I actually have to go and close every single web browser on my desktop before I can actually get going in the morning. And as this comment demonstrates, many times I do not succeed.
By Daniel Markham on Jun 27, 2007
Hehe, around here we often say, “We can sleep once we are dead.”
By ethomas on Jul 1, 2007