Yes, I do, but only in excess. It has been shown that drinking in moderation can be beneficial (i.e. a couple of glasses of red wine with a meal). I recently had the bad fortune to participate in a lab practical about 'the genetic variation of alcohol metabolism' which entailed the drinking of a triple cheap-vodka (75ml) with some nasty-orange-juice. Here's the worst part: It was 9:10am - approximately 20mins after I rolled out of bed with a hangover!

Just found a good one on an email in my LUG:

A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard.

Oh, so this is where the social mumblings wandered off to, and to think I've been brushing by it since I can't come up with a decent sig.

Time to get up to speed:

A friend of mine, Evil Matt, once had the only sig that had made me chuckle aloud before I read that Pac Man thing:

millihelen: n. The ammount of beauty necessary to launch just one ship.

When I was involved in the rave scene, before that term became too common-place and the rave-babies just started calling them 'parties' or 'going clubbing', I was the one reliable friend of the organizers/promoters and ended up working the door a lot. Kids zorked out on Meth and Ex are not known for their reliability, well, at least when holding onto a 5k door wad is involved at least, so I was rather out of place. The sheer size of those things was rather astonishing as it was the product of the deranged after-evening's musings of a couple of sozzled long-undergrad twenty-somethings who just happened to think: "Yeah, we could get a warehouse for a night," and did.

Finegan drinks bourbon, and used to drink a lot of it until he awoke too many times with very little recollection of the night before and ended up tripping over garden gnome lawn ornaments on the way to the bathroom to hork before finding the world's largest clawhammer to try and remove the 8-inch railroad spike that always seemed to be square in the middle of his forehead after nights like these. That, and he broke up with his ex who could easily have drunk Charles Bukowski under the table, the floor, the earth's crust, and maybe a few good kilometers into the mantle.

Anyway, to get away from the third person and too much plate-techtonics, I think Isa's recent Behind the Penguin post may have been the funniest I've read to date, but I work at Georgia Tech; if I worked at UGA I would be in Athens, a much nicer town where I could look forward to bouncing beer cans off of Michael Stipe's bald noggin and paying much less in the way of rent.

Actually, I think I would welcome a good booze up and riot session that ended in my roasting marshmallows on the ashes of the library and having to find a new place to schlep for cash. I need a new bloody job.

Cheers,

Finegan

first of all... georgia tech, georgia u... whatever ... give my poor over-extended memory a break... i need to fire my fact-checkers.
also... my ex was a bukowski freak. he used to read some of his "poems" to me... god what a freak... damn you for bringing him up!!

i was kinda insulted it took you so long to respond to this thread ... you'd be surprised how hard it is to satirize people based on random stuff they've said about software. also, take my word for it, if you have half a glass of chablis, and half a glass of merlot, don't combine them. ummm... where was i?

anyway, as it was, just a few days after my last ethanol-induced illness, i got sick for real. this week has sucked some serious hoover-industrial-strength dirt*. today is the first day this week that i wasn't expecting to fall over dead from a sneeze-induced embolism. hmm... actually, this chablis/merlot combination isn't so bad. still wouldn't recommend it tho.

i do like the way tricky gussied up his sig tho - the color suits him. i'd hate to see it become a trend, tho.
found this these sigs :
"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others."
"Procrastination : the art of keeping up with yesterday."

ok... still a bit sniffly. i'm going to sleep now. after some nyquil...

*i was going to say cucumbers, but kewp would have had a field day with that.

Been through the party scene in the 80's and part of the 90's. Hence the phrase "I tried it once...........for 10 years".
Now a hot time for me is dinner with the wife and a couple of glasses of merlot with a $15 cigar afterwards.

Got a 3 year old at home............he deserves not to have a hung over dad. Besides..........it hurts a 40 year old body waaaaaay too much.

A few weekends ago I went to a rave with friends, and had some alcohol. Got myself tipsy but not plastered. Unfortuneately I had a headache, and my "friend" gave me some Ex and I just took it, thinking it was aspirin. Well, my headache went away. Along with reality.

I dropped him as a friend. And yes I had fun, but that is not the point. I got out of the drug scene when some jerk spiked my drink and if my friend was not there, I think I would have been in trouble.

Luckily I learned my lesson without to much bad happening.

Sorry to bring this up again, but I found another that I quite liked:

"If my left and right foot were just like copyleft and copyright, I couldn't walk!"

I just use my sig to pimp my websites...go on...click the link....you know you wanna

Here's one that gave me a chuckle:

Some mornings it's not worth chewing through the straps.

"The first hundred years are the hardest."

"I never used to be able to finish anything but now I"

"Life is like driving your car at night through heavy fog. You can only ever see as far as your headlights, but you can always make the whole journey that way."

& my personal fav:

"Pain is the greatest teacher." - Death

There goes mine....

I like this one

There are three kinds of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.

Oldie, but a goodie...we use it in my drum corps to give those people who can't count a good ribbin'

G

pardon me, what is a rave?

we've only got mambo nites where i live...

and i'm definitely old now coz i often end up yawning and wondering to myself about bedtime...

I just have to say that I do not know how a sig thread turned into a "I am a raving drug addict" thread but more power to the drug induced techies that use "other" operating systems I guess.

Just goes to show that even though you use drugs you can still become an anticonformist, even in the software game.

Linux - the antidrug after the experimentation

My personal sig was given to me at a lan party by what I assumed was a crazy homeless person

"is a drunken ninja more dangerous?"