The little things

Joel Spolsky wrote an excellent post, about a decade ago, on the exact topic I was going to write about today. My post may have been good, but since I never worked in a big, poorly conceived, half-finished bakery I doubt it would have been as good as his. Seriously, go read his now. If you're one of my programmer-readers you'll like it for whatever programming-related metaphor he works into his bread-narrative. If you're not, you'll like it because it's smart and kinda funny, and dammit just go already!

The source of my frustration today:

I won't recount the whole saga of coin-rejecting frustration, but the important part of it is that I managed to overcome it and, ultimately, beat the machine at its own game and get my can of almost pure sugar. Some days this kind of minor frustration can really get you down. Not today though! Today was another good day in a string of generally pretty good days, and I beat down the frustration of a machine which seemed to be out to get my sanity. You have to watch out for them, because on a bad day they can really deliver the knockout punch.

Relatedly, I found this website, where I learnt that some people seem to think that drinking 5 or 6 cans of coke a day is normal. One commenter claimed to get through 20 cans a day (that's over half a kilo of sugar, for anyone who was wondering). I feel vaguely uneasy about the idea of more than 3 or 4 a week. At least that's the whole "obesity" thing explained, I suppose.