Lately I'm in the middle of a project at work that's extremely uninteresting. As sort of a defense mechanism, I try to find the most interesting and elaborate way to carry out the task. This defense mechanism is only partially effective, and I wind up staring off into space, or typing up blog articles for a good chunk of the time I try to spend on the project. This sort of behavior has always come across as a lapse of self-discipline, but sometimes I wonder if it's no ADHD.
Staying up late at night to ensure that some specified amount of time actually winds up being spent on the project requires caffeine. Lately I ran across an interesting article over at Lindsay Brown's site L-Factor about the mechanics of caffeine. Lindsay is a microbiologist and revels in this stuff. Apparently the blood concentration of caffeine follows an exponential function with a half-life of about 3.5 hours for an adult, and works by altering the concentrations of cyclic AMP within cells. Whoa! Thanks Lindsay...
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Fri, 2005-08-12 23:45
found you.
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