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For Those Long Coding Sessions: The Food Patch

Posted by timothy on from the ask-your-doctor-if-it's-right-for-you dept.

rtphokie writes "The U.S. Army has created a Transdermal Nutrient Delivery System which works similarly to to nicotine or birth control patches but delivers vitamins and other micronutrients. It was developed to help "warfighters sustain their physical and mental performance" during high intensity conflict. Is this what ./'ers need during those long coding sessions."

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  1. What flavors? by tinrobot · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd really like tandoori chicken with mint sauce, please. Oh yeah, my arm has no taste buds. Dang.

    1. Re:What flavors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slashdotters can code?

  2. No vits, please by Alien54 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I don't need no stinking vitamins

    I just want a caffeine patch. - Well, maybe a junk food patch. I can see this.

    --
    "It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
  3. I suppose it makes sense... by Ironica · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clinical studies show that, while only about 20% (less now, I'm thinking) of Americans are addicted to cigarettes, 100% are addicted to food.

    Hopefully, this patch will help people with a food abuse problem to combat it and overcome it. In moderation, food is a good and healthy thing, but as with so many things, there is such a thing as too much.

    I wonder how long it's going to take them to come up with the Sleep patch? Now that's an addiction I'd like to kick...

    --
    Don't you wish your girlfriend was a geek like me?
    1. Re:I suppose it makes sense... by Dirtside · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm way more interested in an Air patch. Having to breathe all the time is really inconvenient.

      --
      "Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
    2. Re:I suppose it makes sense... by bilbobuggins · · Score: 4, Funny
      i'm hoping for a sex patch so i can stop getting laid all the time

      oh wait...

  4. be careful, you are slashdotting an .mil server by havaloc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not sure if it would be a wise idea to slashdot a military server these days. You might be considered a terrorist.

  5. Beer by evilroot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Forget food. I want one that pumps BEER straight into my veins!

  6. Long Coding Sessions? by bahwi · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Is this what ./'ers need during those long coding sessions."

    Is that anything like the much needed Sex Patch?

    Uh, erm, not that I need it. =)

    1. Re:Long Coding Sessions? by SensitiveMale · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Is this what ./'ers need during those long coding sessions."

      Is that anything like the much needed Sex Patch?
      And by the pr0n usage of the readers, would they make those in both right-handed and left-handed varieties?

  7. And I thought C-Rats and MRE's were bad by core+plexus · · Score: 5, Funny
    When I was in the Army (uh-oh), we'd sometimes not eat but once a day, especially in Ranger school. And a part of that reason was because the meals were so terrible. Oh I hope you never have to eat "Pork, Processed, with Juices" or scrambled eggs and ham that are 5 years old. Now they'll be having soldiers shaving their testicles to apply a food patch. I'll pass on the 're-up', thanks.

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  8. Re:No. by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 5, Funny
    I know a guy who lost 150 pounds by just taking the refridgerator out of his computer room.

    Moving a 150 pound refrigerator from the computer room and back into the kitchen from where it came does NOT constitute weight loss.

  9. The Food Patch by farnsworth · · Score: 5, Funny
    here's the actual patch:
    Index: human/nerd/coder/employed/on_the_job.h
    ========== ============
    RCS file:
    / universe/ solar_system/ earth/ mamal/ human/ nerd/ coder/ employed/ on_the_job.h,v
    retrieving revision 1.0
    diff -u -r1.0 on_the_job.h

    #include <wake_up.h>
    #include "../../common/move_to_workstation.h"
    -#include "../nutrition/check_slashdot.h"
    +#include <eat_a_bagel.h>
    #include <guzzle_coffee.h>
    --

    There aint no pancake so thin it doesn't have two sides.

  10. similarly to to nicotine or birth control patches by tlambert · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..."works similarly to to nicotine or birth control patches"...

    Oh yeah, there's a warehouse mixup waiting to happen.

    -- Terry