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mmmarvel says

I make my own for less than 50 cents a cup (probably closer to 10 or 25 cents - haven't really calculated it).

Coffee is disgusting, goes well with all the cigarettes my brother smokes I guess.

New Renter says

I just pop into my neighborhood businesses where I know they have courtesy coffee.

When I visit Yosemite i go to the Awhanee hotel, free coffee for guests there (or people who pretend to be guests).

That's graduate school living.

Vicente says

Coffee is disgusting

Hear hear!

If I accidentally sip that sludge, I spit it out and rinse my mouth out.

No idea how that particular taste is acquired. Do addicts start with lots of cream and sugar to mask the acrid taste?

What's a smartphone?

HuggyBumbers McLovkins says

Hear hear!

If I accidentally sip that sludge, I spit it out and rinse my mouth out.

No idea how that particular taste is acquired. Do addicts start with lots of cream and sugar to mask the acrid taste?

After I started popping caffeine pills with a Sprite in the morning/afternoon, I'd given up coffee. In contrast, I now get the same lift but with a delicious lemon-lime soda.

And of course, in the evening, to cut the empty calories, I use a no sugar lemon-lime seltzer.

Rin says

New Renter says

I just pop into my neighborhood businesses where I know they have courtesy coffee.

When I visit Yosemite i go to the Awhanee hotel, free coffee for guests there (or people who pretend to be guests).

That's graduate school living.

And the $0.05/cup ?No Doze? I suppose that's part of the lifestyle of the rich and famous?

New Renter says

Rin says

New Renter says

I just pop into my neighborhood businesses where I know they have courtesy coffee.

When I visit Yosemite i go to the Awhanee hotel, free coffee for guests there (or people who pretend to be guests).

That's graduate school living.

And the $0.05/cup ?No Doze? I suppose that's part of the lifestyle of the rich and famous

Once you add the Sprite, then yes, it's high end living.

tvgnus says

Almost half of Americans (47 percent) say they couldnt get through their day without their trusty smartphone

To tell you the truth, I could not last an hour. I feel lost and panicky.
I sleep with it.

Strategist says

I sleep with it.

Just kidding.

I do not understand what I view as an addiction to these phones.

BTW, even people in third world countries would freak out over a day with out their smart phone, cell phone, internet ect...

It's easy to imagine that we're the most technological advanced country in the world, and those poor countries are making do with a paper cup and string. Nothing can be further from the truth. There's things even in impoverished boroughs of Lima Peru that makes some of our technology seem silly. Like desktop cell full featured Business Phones, and for just pennies a day. I spent $25 and teleconferenced for about 20 minutes every day for a month, and still never went over my prepaid card.

Asian markets have smart phone technologies months if not years before we get them.

I despise the rise of the smart phone. Before, IM was simply a desk tether but now, it's a roaming app which follows me everywhere I go.

And plus, I have to have only two modes, online or away. Thus, if a client IMs, it's usually a good idea to respond within reasonable time despite the 'away' status or otherwise, they'll start bickering to other partners.

When this job is over, I'm tossing the smart phone. It's a regular laptop from then on.

Rin says

When this job is over, I'm tossing the smart phone. It's a regular laptop from then on.

Forget it, you are hooked. You will toss it, only to get the latest one.

If you wanna now something from me you better call.
I never text, nor respond. My phone is a phone.
That I do other stuff on, because the sensors allow me to do things that a computer wont do.

Texting and Jive Assing with Social apps isn't any of the things I do with my Smart phone.

If you text me with a serious question, I'll call you. If you don't answer.
I consider the case Closed!

This is exactly what I tell my clients.

CaptainShuddup says

This is exactly what I tell my clients.

By Xmas you won't have any left. Unless they're 90 years old.

mmmarvel says

komputodo says

If you can't pay for your $6 coffee at starbucks with your iphone

WHAT??? Is starbucks having a sale? Haven't been for years, but my wife goes almost daily, I think the coffee drinks are up closer to the $8 to $10 range. I make my own for less than 50 cents a cup (probably closer to 10 or 25 cents - haven't really calculated it).

When I visit Starbucks I'll get a regular coffee, medium whatever they call it, usually about $2.50 with the tip that's three bucks. I don't go for all the foo foo added crap that puts your cup of morning Joe in the dessert category at up to 850 calories! If I wanna drink my breakfast I'll have three beers. Might be good to remind your ladies that those spendy coffees are why they can't lose that extra fifty pounds.

Quigley says

If I wanna drink my breakfast I'll have three beers

Now that is the antithesis of the morning caffeine! If you want to take it to the next level combine it with 2 shots of stoli, but in america it will be considered binge drinking and you will be referred to a "counselor"....

dublin hillz says

Quigley says

If I wanna drink my breakfast I'll have three beers

Now that is the antithesis of the morning caffeine! If you want to take it to the next level combine it with 2 shots of stoli, but in america it will be considered binge drinking and you will be referred to a "counselor"....

Isn't that the subject of George Thorogood's 'I Drink Alone'?

http://www.youtube.com/embed/lpzqQst-Sg8

Never kid about your smartphone
Your smartphone is your key to the universe.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/6AOpomu9V6Q

Strategist says

Strategist says

I sleep with it.

Just kidding.

Strategist says

Rin says

When this job is over, I'm tossing the smart phone. It's a regular laptop from then on.

Forget it, you are hooked. You will toss it, only to get the latest one.

No way, I'm writing this on a notebook.

That thing's going to the trash when those losers, who bother me all day about stupid stuff, are out of my life.

komputodo says

Strategist says

CaptainShuddup says

This is exactly what I tell my clients.

By Xmas you won't have any left. Unless they're 90 years old.

And they'll be trying to pay him with a personal check

If they're still around.

Strategist says

By Xmas you won't have any left.

Yes I will, that's why they call me. The folks in their internal IT department is too busy Tweeting and over complicating their flagship product, delaying it 2 years over budget and schedule already.

I'm a Business unit developer.

You know those business suits in the company who aren't technically your boss nor have anything to do with IT at all, and his flow charts, excel sheets, screen shots and wild and wacky pie in the sky data mining ideas; that makes everyone in the IT department cringe when he comes and cut inside jokes about him when he leaves?

Those are MY Clients.

You couldn't pay me enough to work in a Company where I'm in IT but have to develop for guys like that, while being restricted by the rules and procedures of all of the wild and wacky IT shops out there.

My stuff works and only has the libraries that are necessary to function as required. It gets verbose and complicated. By time I'm done, they are your average Corporate America's IT's worst maintenance nightmare.

Now it's not that they are high maintenance at all. They'll run for years with out incident. But If anyone needs to add or remove either fields in the tables or add or remove tables all together. They better be prepared to gleam the code and step through processes, run Firebug and generally make a concerted effort to actually understand the project as it sets on the stack as a whole before they do anything.

IT departments have fired all of the REAL developers who actually code, and don't rely on third party tools and do all libraries. They take one look at my code and don't see any MVC or Infragistics controls and want no part of it.

So I DO get repeat Clients. Even after their IT departments put up a political stink about how ALL projects must go through them. Six months later Guess what?

I'm not here to play, I'm here to do your shit. Now what do you want?
If I digialy thumb wrestled people 10, 20 times a day, I wouldn't get anything done. I have to stop and think about what I'm typing. What I say SOME people like to take out of context anyway.

If you call me, or I'll call you, I can put you on speaker phone. We can trouble shoot, we can brainstorm, I can edit and repush and it's resolved with in ten minutes. We don't need a Google hang out chat, in an hour from now.

Oh yeah buddy you gotta be up front with these people. Let 'em know.

CaptainShuddup says

If you call me, or I'll call you, I can put you on speaker phone. We can trouble shoot, we can brainstorm, I can edit and repush and it's resolved with in ten minutes. We don't need a Google hang out chat, in an hour from now.

Oh yeah buddy you gotta be up front with these people. Let 'em know.

How do you compete with someone in India who is younger, sharper and works for 10c on the dollar?

Strategist says

CaptainShuddup says

If you call me, or I'll call you, I can put you on speaker phone. We can trouble shoot, we can brainstorm, I can edit and repush and it's resolved with in ten minutes. We don't need a Google hang out chat, in an hour from now.

Oh yeah buddy you gotta be up front with these people. Let 'em know.

How do you compete with someone in India who is younger, sharper and works for 10c on the dollar?

I think the Captain's strategy is that of a being an independent vendor. Thus, he doesn't exist.

When one engages a team in India, it's basically picking up a body shop where sure, each individual is cheap, but in effect, it's like hiring a bunch of high schoolers to do maintenance work for you.

Once you sign a contract with an Indian body shop, the expectation is many billed hours but minimal results.

I found the best times is when I locked my phone away in the drawer for an entire weekend. I would do this for vacations out of town too, but the smartphone has some value when you're new in town.

Mainly, looking for a restaurant on Yelp, turn by turn directions when driving in a new city, making reservations with Open Table.

But I don't see the whole need to constantly focus on texting each other small tid bits of your day as it goes by, this constant need for attention and adoration by the youth these days is ridiculous for their attention spans which are already short.

Call it Crazy says

Plus, add in how narcissistic they are that they need to post every time they take a dump, and you get what we have today!!

Add to that the 'selfies' - good Lord, is it REALLY that important to know what you looked like five minutes ago? I'd continue this comment but I have to go ... uh, never mind.

mmmarvel says

Add to that the 'selfies' - good Lord, is it REALLY that important to know what you looked like five minutes ago?

Ok, here's my morning selfie ... I just popped a caffeine pill with a Sprite.

Man, talk about a jacked up, lemon-lime soda!!!!

Ppl, just say no to coffee. Caffeine pills are the way!

I'm a busy person, so texting with the smart phone works well for me. People can text me and I can easily and quickly respond at my convenience.

Not the pain in the ass of having to check voice mail and then return a call to respond. And then maybe the other party isn't available once I am.

I was teaching my four year old to bike. Pull out Youtube on balancing, took the baby wheels off and look here is what we are trying to do in visual detail. Voila, an hour later and balancing

We were in Los Cabos swimming. I know how to breast stroke but not efficiently, voila pull out youtube and just improved the kick glide

I was at Safeway near a friends house to buy some Ice Cream, the line was 5 deep. Pull out the damn phone to see what's a great place to eat nearby.

It was time to go to bed, pulled out the damn phone to take a last peak at the email and to do the next day. Then off to Pandora for 10 mins, close my eyes.

I am doing some refi paperworks, just scan driver license, loan info and whatsapp the agent. Another agent called and ask what is the mile on the car, took a picure and sent on viber.

The only problem is my 4 and 6 year old wants a piece of the phone too.

meanwhile the laptop is collecting dust. Untouched for two years. An ipad and Ipad mini both with 4G and active are untouched as well. The smartphone is really ten gadgets in one.

It is a watch, Camera, video recorder, browers, navigation, cloud, music/video storage, encyclopedia, phone, instant mail, organizer, games, newspapers/books. And with the Amazon fire phone which is ridicolous stupid, it is shopping.

Strategist says

How do you compete with someone in India who is younger, sharper and works for 10c on the dollar?

I'm down the street, and awake during business hours.

Call it Crazy says

Plus, add in how narcissistic they are that they need to post every time they take a dump, and you get what we have today!!

That reminds me, gotta update my page!

Call it Crazy says

Rin says

Ppl, just say no to coffee.

Ain't never going to happen!!!

Coffee is supposed to be good for you.
If it wasn't, I'd still drink it.

Strategist says

tvgnus says

Almost half of Americans (47 percent) say they couldnt get through their day without their trusty smartphone

To tell you the truth, I could not last an hour. I feel lost and panicky.

I sleep with it.

Don't laugh, I have had employees who sleep with them under their pillows. They do have alarms.

Another thing going for me, is the people who contact me are under enormous pressure. They've not only got the Executives that they report to, that they've got to apease, they've got the Senior IT people working against them, because they went to an outside source.

Everyone in the company other than the Suit that called, want's the project to fail, so the Suit can hang out to dry.

I always deliver incident free, and go above and beyond the actual verbiage in the requirements, to deliver a product that is practical in practice. Rather than just following a few bullet points on a requirements document, and standing by my position that to make it function more effectively through discoveries as they arise, is out of scope to what we agreed upon. Which is what they'll get 99% of the time from their internal IT department. I'm not under any restraints from the head of the IT or any IT higher up, to make changes on the fly as requirements focus shifts, as the model and forms become a reality.

They always call back. Even after my foulmouthed outbursts when they call me at 7am with a problem that turns out to be a non issue after I worked until 4am the night before.

They Deal with me because I can deal with them, make them happy and deliver.

CaptainShuddup says

They always call back. Even after my foulmouthed outbursts when they call me at 7am with a problem that turns out to be a non issue after I worked until 4am the night before.

They Deal with me because I can deal with them.

The real advantage you have with them is communication. I'm sure, when you speak, they understand you, plus there is a cultural aspect to all communication. If you tell the smart, young guy in India "Miami Heat was not too hot this year" they will think you are talking about the weather, and may even want to know if it stopped snowing in Miami.
Other then that those guys are unbeatable.

Strategist says

Other then that those guys are unbeatable.

It's not about a particular person's individual intelligence or so forth.

It's when one conducts business with an Indian outsourcer, the business model is to extract the most billable hours, delivering the least amount of work. And thus, you'll get constant memos, updated spreadsheets, etc, of why/how the scope needs to change, and more bodies are required for the project.

And since this is how the India Inc management works, even that so-called IIT genius will always be expected to follow along with his less motivated sidekicks, to stay in the employment game.

Strategist says

Other then that those guys are unbeatable.

Why you think an Indian is the only one with code-gen scripts for any pattern?

CaptainShuddup says

Strategist says

Other then that those guys are unbeatable.

Why you think an Indian is the only one with code-gen scripts for any pattern?

I'm not sure what code-gen scripts are. Sounds like a template for programming or something.
I mentioned India because every time I used to call tech help, I would end up with someone in India. But it could be anyone in any third world country.
Now I don't call because we are now an Apple family. Nothing goes wrong with Apple products.

SFace says

It is a watch.

Yup. Used it last night to time planks ;p. THAT alarm is the best sound in the world.

Rin says

Strategist says

Other then that those guys are unbeatable.

It's not about a particular person's individual intelligence or so forth.

It's when one conducts business with an Indian outsourcer, the business model is to extract the most billable hours, delivering the least amount of work. And thus, you'll get constant memos, updated spreadsheets, etc, of why/how the scope needs to change, and more bodies are required for the project.

And since this is how the India Inc management works, even that so-called IIT genius will always be expected to follow along with his less motivated sidekicks, to stay in the employment game.

Everyone tries to bill more hours.
If I tell my attorney "Hello" I get a $50.00 invoice. I can't even tell him to shove it up for fear of getting billed.