Coffee in Engineering - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Time
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 04, 2011, 04:40:28 pm
content: I am curious about coffee in engineering. It seems like its quite a fixation where I work.

author: Excavatoree
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 04, 2011, 05:25:54 pm
content: I'm glad I'm living in the time where engineering prints are made on the printer - when I knock over my coffee cup, I can easily replace the prints on my desk. Not so back when drawings were hand-drawn originals, or even copies made from some smelly duplicating process that, thankfully, I never had to fully understand.

author: armandas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 04, 2011, 05:45:18 pm
content: I noticed that people my age prefer energy drinks. Me though, I like tea.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 04, 2011, 06:10:19 pm
content: Lots of people where I work mostly drink tea but I prefer coffee.We have a free drinks machine where I work. My favourite is a mocha. I put two shots of coffee powder and whitener with a shot of drinking chocolate. I normally have one real coffee like this in the morning, then drink decaf for the rest of the day, unless I'm really tired, otherwise I can't sleep.

author: flapjackboy
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 04, 2011, 06:13:23 pm
content: I have to be careful I don't let too much blood build up in my coffee.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 04, 2011, 08:36:37 pm
content: i drink nescafe (blend of coffe) when i want to stay awake, i drink milo (blend of coco) occasionally, i drink tea when i feel i want to have a fever, i drink coffe when its the only drink available.

author: quantumfall
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 04, 2011, 10:12:57 pm
content: I love it. Drank it almost every day for the last 44 years that I can remember

author: Time
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 04, 2011, 10:30:10 pm
content: I drink it a few times a day. I never could get into energy drinks. Tastes like chemicals.

author: Mr J
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2011, 02:57:17 am
content: soda here, ever knock over a soda can and forget to clean a pc board that it spilled on. I used to drink about 3 Litre a day, cut back to 24oz a day now.

author: PeterG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2011, 03:37:31 am
content: I am a reformed Soda(2Lt+ Coke per day) addict. Also cut down from 10 or so coffee a day to just 2 in the morning. Drink plain tap water the rest of the day.Its amazing what a few words from a heart doctor can motivate you to do...Regards

author: williefleete
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2011, 04:45:25 am
content: cant stand the stuff. water, milk or the occasional fanta/sprite is enough for me

author: the_raptor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2011, 05:12:13 am
content: Quote from: Time on February 04, 2011, 10:30:10 pmEverything tastes like chemicals

author: TheWelly888
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2011, 07:00:59 pm
content: Quote from: the_raptor on February 05, 2011, 05:12:13 amBecause theyarechemicals!

author: Nermash
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2011, 08:16:44 pm
content: Ahhh, sweet memories of my youthfull days, brekfast of champions: 2x Italian espresso and 6-7 cigarettesI quit smoking 4.5 years ago, but I still drink 2 espressos in the morning, and 1 in the afternoon. Maybe another one at night if I go out. Guess I like coffee:)

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2011, 08:17:11 pm
content: nescafe Frappé coffee ... another Greek prototype versionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frapp%C3%A9_coffee

author: FreeThinker
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2011, 09:57:17 pm
content: Quote from: Excavatoree on February 04, 2011, 05:25:54 pmAhh! the fond memories of the smell of ammonia. Dyeline prints were made by putting the original on top of a sensitized sheet of paper and passing it around a glass tube containing a uv source. The copy was then passed though a bath of heated ammonia to develop the image. These were your typical blueprints (as the image was blue). An alternative was the 'wet' process same exposure but the developer was a liquid bath and 2 rubber squeegee rollers much favored by architects because of it's lack of smell (but you needed to dry them on a radiator for a while).Thank god for large format photocopiers.

author: DJPhil
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 05, 2011, 10:05:13 pm
content: One to four cups of coffee, one to four cans of soda, and the better part of a pack of smokes a day.I'm on the opposite end of the health spectrum from Dave! I just hope I'll be forgiven if I keep it to myself.

author: 74HC04
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 06, 2011, 11:01:21 am
content: Usually about 8 spoons of instant rubbish, distributed over about 3 or 4 mugs per day here. I start the working day with a jolt from ~ 2.5 spoons (oh, and when there are no more clean spoons I judge by eye and stir with a knife!).My 'golden rule' is no more coffee after 3pm!

author: tyblu
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 07, 2011, 01:08:09 am
content: Drink coffee all the time. Am a truck driver by day, so it is a job requirement!