caffeine curve

Oh man. This cracks me up.

I used to have this on a coffee cup until it cracked and went off to join the other Great Coffee Cups of Yore in the great Coffee Pot in the Sky.

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Twinmama says:

Ha ha ha! OMG this looks very familiar indeed. Just had my first cup today after a week of being sick and not having a drop! Very cool, em.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Patrick T Power says:

Hah! "Let's do lunch!"
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

bodhi47 says:

i can almost see him! gotta switch to decaf.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

heather says:

just before the crest (near the god sighting) is where i find myself sitting in the women's washroom at work vibrating.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

elston says:

no wonder i haven't seen God yet. i need to keep drinking.

and when i hit excellent work habits, that's when i'm hitting the bathroom every half hour too...
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

talkingcrow says:

thanks for reminding me to drink from the big travel cup next to me.

heather, thanks for that visual. haha.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

This is most precise!

Excellent analisis. 8-)
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Billy Reed says:

Crazy chart! I've just finished the fifth and last coffee of the day, so I'm well on the way! Great images here, Marya. Thanks for visiting.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

mscaprikell says:

This is so ME!! Love it!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

s2art says:

» I'd argue that in the right circumstances, I'd shot gun murder anyone BEFORE I had my first coffee for the day!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Jenguin says:

Oh that is SO TRUE. We got to try out a nifty new automatic coffee machine today and everyone clearly had more than their quota of coffee today.. bunch of crazies in the office due to the weird mood/engery surges!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

bodhi47 says:

see what you started?
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

27ray says:

Brilliant!!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

pkamm says:

This chart is valid only for those who measure their intake in mere cups... hehe... [drool]

My analysis employs a much steeper curve...

[twitch... shiver... shudder... yank]...
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

mike1727 says:

My espresso machine at home blew a seal this morning. I am reduced to a French press, and have run out of decent coffee beans. Deep, deep drepression- as per plot.

It's 8:45 and I'm going downstairs to Starbucks to get back towards what passes for normality. Triple espresso machiato should do the job, leaving only a top-up before peaking at 1pm for a quick lunchtime bike ride.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

bosquetango says:

here it is 6:39 AM. barely able to press keys on keyboard...why is that coffee so slow this morning? Must maintain, must hold on!

AHHHHHHHHHHH!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

emdot says:

pkamm actually brings up a good point... how do you measure your coffee intake?

i had three cups of coffee yesterday, based on coffee cup. but according to the coffee pot i had (yikes!) eight.

my nervous system so hates me.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

talkingcrow says:

coffee pots are well known liars. remember the old saying "it's like the coffee pot calling the kettle full"?

[i can't decide if the caffeine helps or hinders these little outbursts...]
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

bosquetango says:

I drink delicious arabica bean dark roast at home. The pot may say 12 cups but I swear I only drank 4! Lower caffeine than the crappy cheap high caffeine content robusta used at the office, of which I drink maybe 2 cups.
My choice of cup may shed light on the mystery...

Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

pkamm says:

Peet's Aniversary Blend is mm, mm good. Makes me want to lick my eyebrows...

This is the puppy that starts my mornings off.
bigCoffee
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

emdot says:

talkingcrow -- whether it helps or hinders, keep it up; the outbursts are great.

bosque and pkamm show the measuring sticks. i'm kinda getting convinced that our little earthquake last week might have been centered under pkamm's house.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Thirteen Letters Photography says:

me = triple shotgun murder
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

emdot says:

coffee defense!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

pkamm says:

Just for the record, I want folks to know that my index finger is being deployed there, not my longest finger. The photo takes on a decidedly different tone if this detail is misconstrued.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

emdot says:

point taken. pun intended.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Weave says:

this is so me. you have no idea.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

knautia says:

Wow, caffeine madness - but only 5 cups? I had to swear off tea after a horrible addiction. I used to work in an outdoor activity centre, and one day we counted, and I was drinking 40-50 cups of tea a day...
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

emdot says:

That is the big question, knautia. It seems as if five cups equals a pot. BUT that doesn't come close to your tea IV situation.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

bosquetango says:

My homage to how much emdot means to us here on flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/bosquetango/11530038/
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Szczur says:

Mmm. The graph stops at 5 cups? Like knautia, I had to cut my intake (coffee in my case, not tea) because I was drinking 13 or 14 cups daily. Funnily enough, I didn't get the shakes until I dropped my intake (to about 7 cups). I now usually drink 5 or 6 cups daily (and yeah, I know it's still too much).
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Weave says:

40-50 cups of tea a day? i'd be knautious! (buDUMP *PISH!*)
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Martin Gordon says:

That's a lot of coffee. I try to limit myself to two cups a day, and I think even that's too much, but it's the only way I can stay awake all day.

Great little graph though.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

tjerkb says:

I so agree with that GRAPH!! Well done, whereever found/ fabricated, found/invented etc. REgards, Tjerk
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Rocket-Sputter says:

This comments page should be required reading for those that are depressed. My wife and I are peeing our pants and trying to breathe over our laughter!
You need to start up a business selling these cups and the link to this page burned in on the bottom.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

bosquetango says:

Ah, Marya, our work is done. We've made a couple incontinent with laughter! I can sleep the sleep of the just tonight.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

emdot says:

High fives bosque.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

colorcritical says:

I used to be an addict in college, three double espresso's a day. Once at 6:30 am I made at home, one at 11:00 am, and then one at 4:00 pm. I buzzed all day every day. Now I am thankful in my later years I have curbed my addiction and now only have a doppio once a week. Great diagram!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

emdot says:

i gave up caffeine for a couple years and i don't know HOW it crept back into my life, but it did. i wish i didn't l.o.v.e the coffee buzz so much. and french roast. and cream. ;)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

tmfotki says:

this is great!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

brainwise says:

emdot, this is fantastic. I am only recently catching up with some of your work, and I am just DIGGING the charts and illustrations.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

emdot says:

brian -- yea -- stoked you are checking things out. however -- i didn't draw this one (i wish). this is by a really clever guy named tom edwards who used to make (still makes?) funny "wally" ceramicware. :)
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

George the Greek says:

Good stuff M.
Never saw the caffeine effect plotte before, tickled the funny bone.
Now I need a cup of coffee.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

wordman1 says:

I used to think that a caffeinated Tracey was a happy Tracey, now I know that she's been at "Triple Shotgun Murder" for the last week.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Steven Ford / snowbasinbumps says:

Oh yeah! I like this string.. Greg Brown playing in the background "Java and me, JAVA,Java, Java, it likes me" This morning there was fresh snow in Utah, i took my bathrobe out to the patio and shot some froxen roses and I likes my coffee very "blonde"
apologies and credits as appropriate to Pkamm!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

meowhous says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Don't Talk To Me Before I've Had My Coffee (or Tea), and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

pixability says:

great graph, and the comments in this thread are hilarious which I'm sure I'd appreciate even more if it wasn't 11:50 at night, well past the afterwork crash.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

gin girl jen says:

mmmmm coffee.....caffeine...... I'm having some now!
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

@cdharrison says:

Jolt Cola FTW!
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

REALJimBob says:

Hey, Kudos on the LifeHacker 'usage'...
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

autopoiet says:

Nice graph! I published it here:

church-of-coffee.com/2009/01/5cups/

Thank you!
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

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