Life support
on April 11, 2014 at 12:01 amChapter: Back to School. Again
Characters: Danny Wilcox, Joe Rosenthal
Location: Danny and Joe's dorm room, indeterminate classroom
This is a dumb joke I don’t understand. Come back tomorrow.
Joyce and Walky!
Two xennials live in sin!
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At some point it easier to just not go to bed. Depends on the availability of coffee.
The AUTHOR doesn’t understand it… I kinda do, but then I have no idea how to function when there’s sunlight out =p [think it has to do with regulated light levels]
This has been me for the last couple of weeks.
Yet ten hours later i feel fine.
Did… Did i just relate to a ROOMIES!, comic?
Huh.
“Beep-Boop?”
What is Joe doing, playing an Atari emulator?
He’s designing Ultra-Car’s OS.
This reminds me of this one: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2357
He has Pac-Man Fever.
Well, I can see you’ve been out of college for a while then, Mr Willis. XD
I can live on 3 hours sleep to. I just can’t function very well.
Perfect timing, I have a 7:45 AM lab tomorrow and it’s 11:59 with no sign of me going to bed soon.
Yeah, perfect timing indeed. It’s 11:20 here and I have to leave for the airport at 4:30 in the morning. Here’s hoping I can sleep on the plane!
I don’t understand people that sleep for less than 6 hours.
For some of us it’s just fairly normal biological functioning. No matter when I fall asleep, unless I’ve been operating on less than normal, which happens occasionally due to stupid work scheduling like three or four shifts directly in a row or I’m sick/feverish, I’ll be wide awake within four to five hours.
For others it’s just teenage immortality syndrome, thinking they’ll be fine despite knowing it’s rather bad for most to run on so little sleep.
For still others you get into insomnia, which is a nasty issue to have to deal with.
Whereas I, no matter how much I sleep, still feel tired.
I remember in college psych learning about a small portion of the population that actually subsists on 1 hour of sleep a night. When they had some of these people in a sleep lab for observation, they discovered that in that one hour, their brain actually did the entire night’s worth of sleep cycles, so they slept in fast forward. So they were actually fully rested after one hour of sleep.
I wish they could figure out a way to bottle that and sell it.
Are you shitting me?
There exists a group of people who need only one hour of sleep?
Like, they have the energy to do things 23 hours a day? Every day?
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted something so badly.
I dunno, seems to me it would have its downsides. I need a lot more sleep than that, but when I worked nights, when I was off work and everyone else was sleeping, I was BORED to tears. I imagine having several hours every day with no one else to talk to would get boring, fast.
That’s why the ancients bequeathed us with such glories as television, games, and the Internet.
Actually, isitsevenyet, one of the hallmarks of this group of people was that they didn’t get bored. They were constantly doing things. They didn’t understand how the rest of us could sleep so much of our lives away while there was so much to do.
I don’t understand the joke and I refuse to respond to it.
Someone must have mentioned this before, but this is so weird as a story – we haven’t actually had any action in the SEMME story, nothing for this bit to be a break from, so it feels like young-Willis thought that college students being grumpy was narratively equivalent to alien fighters. I can tell why you later went on to have more than one comic at a time, because this attempt to double up wacky action and “wry” (or attempts at) college humour is… awkward.
Originally posted:
September 20, 1999
“Live”, yes.
Concentrate, focus, apply judgement, think critically? That requires something closer to 6-8. Longer for teenagers who still have a bit of growing left to do.
It’s worth noting that in military basic training, you’re allotted 5 hours a night. Allowing cadets/recruits to apply critical thinking or judgement is considered counterproductive to 8 weeks of conditioning to do whatever you’re told without hesitation or questioning.