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- FOOD AND THE COMMODORE
- by Paul Panks
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- The topic of eating while
- Commodoreing has never been fully
- explored. I often eat when I use the
- Commodore, which is natural because I
- am a late-night snacker and that's
- also when I am at my best on the
- computer.
-
- Some swear by the good ol' Big Mac
- when they are hammering out ML code or
- typing in DATA statements, while
- others (like me) stick with the tried
- and true Stagg brand chili with beans,
- meat and Keebler butter-flavored
- crackers.
-
- When I was heavily into
- programming in the mid-1990s, I would
- routinely wolf down a three-course
- meal while pounding away at the
- keyboard (I weigh a spartan 115 lbs,
- if anyone was curious, just like Bruce
- Lee!).
-
- I often eat according to whatever
- programming session I'm entering. For
- sprites, I stick with fast-food. No
- sense in messing with success, right?
- If it worked in 1986 with Cherry Coke
- and a Big Mac, by golly, I'm doing it
- that way in 2006, too! For more
- intense keyboard sessions, however, I
- stick with Uncle Ben's Rice Bowls
- (preferrably chicken). To type in
- those RUN Paint-sized program listings
- requires a healthy dose of protein and
- gluten.
-
- For simple things like playing a
- video game or using a word processor,
- I usually go with chips and salsa.
- That's easy to prepare and eaten over
- a plate makes fewer messes to cleanup
- (I have the unfortunate experience of
- having spilled ketchup AND coke on two
- separate Commodore keyboards, the
- results of which (a) stained one
- keyboard and (b) permanently fried the
- VIC-II chip in the other model (hey,
- if Coca-Cola is used to clean toilets
- and streets, it must do wonders for
- silicon chips!).
-
- And for those big Commodore
- sessions, like at parties and large
- gatherings such as CommVex, nothing
- less than Kentucky Fried Chicken
- and/or Papa John's Pizza will suffice.
- Popular legend has it that to be a
- "professional" computer enthusiast you
- must know various hospital telephone
- numbers by heart (ok, bad joke, I
- know). If your local cardiologist is
- quizzing you on the latest LAN
- technology or the motherboard specs
- for your latest rack, well, you've
- been to a LOT of these parties and had
- a TON of pizza! :)
-
- All joking aside, eating and
- computing go hand-in-hand. The next
- Commodore bash should be an outdoor
- event with a large barbeque and the
- biggest musical band money can buy.
- And if you love Star Trek, we'll even
- have a "DVD Den" with a 100-inch
- plasma screen supersonic television
- system playing in full-definition 5.1
- Dolby-surround sound. I must admit
- that my favorite "Trek" is Star Trek
- II: The Wrath of Kahn. Anything else
- -- other than Nemesis -- pales in
- comparison.
-
- So when you're "Commodoreing"
- tonight, tomorrow or whenever, don't
- forget the extra order of fries with
- that Big Mac and Jolt-Ultra cola! It
- will keep you humming into the
- mignight hours! :)
-
- PP
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