You decide to stay in with the other coders and eat Hot n’ Ready’s for dinner.

“Cheese? That’s lame,” one of the coders respond with group jeers.

“Hey, we can afford some Cheese pizzas,” Elon supports your decision. “Some people say I’m a little weird to, what do you expect from the guy trying to fix the federal government and go to Mars?”

You hope you don’t regret your decision and decide to get some caffeine if you’re working late into the night. Shouldn’t expect anything less from daddy Elon.

“Do we have some coffee in this office?” you ask.

“Yeah, right this way,” one of the coders leads you to a break room. “The name’s Ed, but most people call me Big Balls.”

“Nice to meet you” you respond. He’s another surly looking teenager who’s been working in the office next to yours, but you haven’t had a chance to say hello just yet. You follow Big Balls to the Rec room.

There’s a pot of coffee brewing in the breakroom. The engineer shows you around. “We’ve always got a nice hot pot of Café Bustelo’s ready to go. Office rules of course, if ya run out, brew another. If that’s not strong enough for ya, we’ve got these.”
viii. He opens up the fridge to pull up a tall thin can of some energy drink you’ve never seen before in your life. He opens up a can, chugs it and lets out a loud belch.

“What is that?” you ask

“Balmer juice,” he response with another burp. “It’s basically Red Bull and Vodka. Just at the right mixture to keep ya at your coding peak.”

What do ya drink?

Balmer Juice

Coffee

Nothing, none of this sounds good at all, especially on an empty stomach

Published by B McGraw

B McGraw has lived a long and successful professional life as a software developer and researcher. After completing his BS in spaghetti coding at the department of the dark arts at Cranberry Lemon in 2005 he wasted no time in getting a masters in debugging by print statement in 2008 and obtaining his PhD with research in screwing up repos on Github in 2014. That's when he could finally get paid. In 2018 B McGraw finally made the big step of defaulting on his student loans and began advancing his career by adding his name on other people's research papers after finding one grammatical mistake in the Peer Review process.

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