A long-time friend has recently started keeping, of all things, a LiveJournal. On the bright side, it’s chock full of great little stories:

I just fell asleep at my desk. Awoke briefly to bruise the fingers of a co-worker who was tying my shoes together. A quick experiment on the key-repeat rate of my keyboard suggests that the 24719 consecutive ‘[‘ characters I found typed into my active source code window indicate ~37 minutes of sleep.

Add the 7 minutes or so I spent deriving that result, and typing this journal entry, and I’m now effectively wasted a solid 45 minutes. I heard a anecdote that we humans tend to waste approximately an hour a day waiting for the clock to strike [:00, :15, :30, or :45] before getting our lazy asses in gear.

I’m inclined to agree.