The stackoverflow drinking game
Caution: You will die if you play this game..
Minor background information:
Joel Spolsy and Jeff Atwood are great writers. They talk about things programmers would be interested in - for instance screw the desk, get a great chair.
But then they decided to do a podcast about their new social networking site that will be this haven of information on a .net stack. I'll quote my friend Ryan: "After hearing them talk, Joel needs to go back to writing and I wouldn't hire Atwood to mow my lawn." After listening to 18 hours of them talk, I agree - take a drink.
The rules are simple:
When Jeff agrees with Joel - take a drink..
well, you're already drunk by now.
When Jeff mentions having a "out of band conversation" - take 2 drinks.
When Jeff says "Absolutely" - take a drink.
When they both deny they're .net programmers - just start chugging..
When Jeff talks about earning badges - think about special mounts on Warcraft and take a drink.
When they say LAMP stacks are dog slow - 3 drinks
When Joel claims macs are only luxury items - 2 drinks
When Joel bashes open source - 3 drinks
When Jeff claims he's open source friendly - fire off a nasty email, then drink
Every time they don't take a user call - take a drink
By now, you should be dead. Either from the alcohol poisoning and/or the aneurysm that ruptured from listening to these guys. While I have no idea if their new site is going to flop or become the greatest thing since sliced bread, I would suggest they concentrate on coding and kill the podcast.