I need to stay awake and still be alive tomorrow, plus other requests

[itszutak]

This is not a parody thread, just poorly timed.

Anyhow, I have a major, MAJOR project to do, due tomorrow-- it involves writing up an essay and putting three essays and pictures together to make a website.

So, I have three problems:

Firstly, does anybody have some suggestions for staying awake?

Second, does anybody here know how to design websites and can whip up a template for me to use? (Or know a website that will do this for me)

Third, does anybody here know anything about Benedict Arnold?

[Jean-Luc]

I'd like the answer to #1 as well. Gotta write 6 more pages of an essay

[itszutak]

I'd like the answer to #1 as well. Gotta write 6 more pages of an essay
Ouch. Luckily, my APUSH teacher prefers substance to prose, and I get away with three-page (at the most) essays.

This is a different scenario, however, because I'm going to have to make an entire webpage after this-- without prior experience.

[Reaper Man]

What I do when I pull late nights (never done an all-nighter) is put on my favorite internet radio station, put on my headphones and just zone out of time. I can work for hours without realizing it's been hours, because I get really into the music and work at the pace of the music - it's an alternative/indie rock station, so that's a pretty fast pace, heh.

Also, food, lots of it. Coffee, if you're up for it, but then be prepared for lots of toilet breaks.

[itszutak]

What I do when I pull late nights (never done an all-nighter) is put on my favorite internet radio station, put on my headphones and just zone out of time. I can work for hours without realizing it's been hours, because I get really into the music and work at the pace of the music - it's an alternative/indie rock station, so that's a pretty fast pace, heh.

Also, food, lots of it. Coffee, if you're up for it, but then be prepared for lots of toilet breaks.
When I zone out, I really zone out. I stop working and stare at the wall until I snap out of it and turn off the music. It just doesn't work with my already thin attention span :( I have ADD but honestly it's not as bad as people say

I think I'm going to try another cup of caffeinated tea. Worked a bit last time, but it did make me a bit jittery.

[LinkandKvel]

VAULT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_(soft_drink)). That shit will keep you awake for hours on a couple 20 ozs.

[itszutak]

Well, that was a weird experience. Tea with milk and sugar + cold hot dog = sushi aftertaste. Yummy :/

Anybody know a website with templates?

[n00b1n8R]

When I zone out, I really zone out. I stop working and stare at the wall until I snap out of it and turn off the music. It just doesn't work with my already thin attention span :(
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[itszutak]

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I'd say ritalin but I haven't used it for five years and I heard it really only works for those with serious add. for normal people, it just makes you focus on random stuff around you. One story that comes to mind is of the poor fool who took some before a major test and couldn't think of anything but his heartbeat for the entire test.

E: Before someone suggests it, unplugging your internet is not a good way to focus. It actually makes me dick around more in games, and I usually use the internet to look up synonyms, definitions, fact-checking, and Wikipedia pages for my essays.

[SnaFuBAR]

I would say drink plenty of water. Works for me, but it might not for you.

[itszutak]

I would say drink plenty of water. Works for me, but it might not for you.
Ran out of milk for my tea and it tastes like dead fish now, so I stopped.

Gonna try water, nice ice cold water.

[Mr Buckshot]

Drink something sweet, like orange juice. Works well for me. Sorry, don't know anything about Benedict Arnold. Good luck.

Put a picture of a naked woman on your desktop while you work

[Mass]

I drink coffee and smoke weed, keeps me relaxed but awake.

The combination makes me really focused, and also cures hangovers better than anything else known to man.

[Hotrod]

I find that taking a nice cold shower tends to wake me up a bit, so it might help you as well.

[ICEE]

If you like it quiet when you sleep, turn on a fan. Or you could load up on caffeine and dunk your head into cold water. You will definitely stay awake

[Llama Juice]

If you like it quiet when you sleep, turn on a fan. Or you could load up on caffeine and dunk your head into cold water. You will definitely stay awake

^this.

The cold water thing works wonders.

[OmegaDragon]

Be in a well lit room, avoid sugar at all costs, dont sit in a place you can sleep in(Bed, sofa, arm chair), spicy food is good if you dont eat it often, rubber band on wrist (Snap every time you feel sleepy on your vein), cocaine, etc.

[mech]

Choke on something.

[Cortexian]

Choke on something.


http://www.modacity.net/forums/images/customavatars/avatar1488_2.gif

Heh.

Anyways, try Dreamweaver for your website, it's a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor. So you can just format it in design mode like you would a text document, only with background colors and tables and shit. If you want templates, i used to use www.clantemplates.com (http://www.clantemplates.com) and then find one that wasn't completely aimed towards gaming, then edit it slightly to work for personal use.

For instance, this template could be easily modified for what you need:
http://www.clantemplates.com/templates/default_totallydefaulted/

This could not:
http://www.clantemplates.com/templates/default_unique/

[RobertGraham]

Drink a couple of Red Bulls. Just don't overdose

[Rob Oplawar]

Be in a well lit room
This. Turn on all the lights you can.
In a more general sense, do whatever you can to trick your body into being unaware of the late hour- that means lights, activity, noise (like the music Reaper suggested- just don't make it "soothing" music, lol), mild discomfort (such as turning on the air conditioner to make it cold).


Anyways, try Dreamweaver for your website, it's a WYSIWYG
As a professional web developer, I have to say, do anything but this. Dreamweaver works for people who don't know how to code, but if you do know even the smallest bit of HTML, I would say stay the hell away. It produces terrible output and can be really touchy.

As an alternative, look for a general web-development IDE (integrated design environment). You're looking for something that provides syntax highlighting at least, as well as file/directory management and if you can get it something that knows all the HTML tags and CSS properties, so if you can't remember a specific tag or property you can call it up from a list in the interface.


e: And freelancer, that site template is so 2004. 19th January 2004, by the looks of it... Get with the times. ;)

e: oh this thread was posted yesterday?
I'm useless. :smith:

[itszutak]

Well, it's the next day and I'm alive. Worked until 4 in the morning- went to school two hours later

Used basically all of the caffinated tea in the house- got lazy and got the page running using Google Pages.

If you want to see it, it's here: http://sites.google.com/site/benedictarnoldandhislegacy/

Just warning people beforehand: Frankly, it's a pile of shit. I had no time to refine the website anywhere near the way I had planned to. Only go if you're really, really curious about what my essay writing looks like (I did the Betrayal section) or really, really want to know a lot about Benedict Arnold.

Anyhow, I'm going to crash now

E: I expected this project to be due in April, and I expected I'd have time to learn a bit of HTML. As it turns out, I had one day's warning to put a website together from scratch with no prior experience. WYSIWYG was perfect for my needs- fast, fairly bug-free, and better than blank-page-with-text quality. I don't need a professionally-done page- this is a one-time homework assignment for my AP US History.

[Warsaw]

Us people in IB (well, the American version at least, since we have dual (and sometimes triple) curriculums we have to keep up, dunno about other countries) stay up late by sheer force of will alone...I've had 3 Internal Assessments due this week. Gross.

If I have any advice, it's have someone else who's in your class doing the same project at the same time as you on IM, and have a race to see who gets done first. Competitive spirit prevails, and you both get to sleep 30 more minutes. I've done this a few times already this year.