{"id":717,"date":"2007-06-16T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T23:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/redbull-makes-me-tired\/"},"modified":"2007-06-16T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T23:28:19","slug":"redbull-makes-me-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/redbull-makes-me-tired\/","title":{"rendered":"RedBull Makes Me Tired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/29\/going-to-the-big-apple\/\">When I went to NYC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motomichi.com\" target=\"_blank\">Moto<\/a> told me that he started drinking RedBull from time to time to get the much needed energy when he has tight deadlines. So when I started coding for this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/two-weeks-in-flash-actionscript\/\">crazy Flash project<\/a>, I asked Grace to get me a couple of cans to try them out&#8230; Unfortunately, it didn&#8217;t do jack for me, much like coffee, Mountain Dew or any other highly caffeinated drinks&#8230; As a bonus, my body decided to make me even more tired after drinking something that&#8217;s supposed to keep me going&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>So what does one do when external stimuli fail as miserably as the mental will to stay awake? Cold shower&#8230;. Never fails (but only for a couple of hours until that &#8220;freshness&#8221; wears out).<\/p>\n<p>After a few days of 4-hour sleeps, my neck started hurting like hell. Only a few more days to go before this sucker is over&#8230; well, the deadline was supposed to be this past Friday, but they neglected to communicate how certain features should work to me, which made this already bad experience even worse&#8230; But I digress&#8230; On the bright side though, nothing beats having a client pay you to learn something you&#8217;ve always wanted to learn but never had the time to&#8230; I think I picked up more Flash in 2 weeks than I ever did with the only Flash class I ever took as an Undergrad at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scad.edu\" target=\"_blank\">SCAD<\/a>. Good times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to NYC, Moto told me that he started drinking RedBull from time to time to get the much needed energy when he has tight deadlines. So when I started coding for this crazy Flash project, I asked Grace to get me a couple of cans to try them out&#8230; Unfortunately, it didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/redbull-makes-me-tired\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RedBull Makes Me Tired&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-bz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}