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[Reudh]

1. How old are you?

19, 20 in two months. (Yikes.)

2. What gender are you?

Male.

3. Do you drink any caffeinated beverages (such as coffee, tea, soft drinks or energy drinks)?

Coffee and tea regularly. Soft drinks rarely. Energy drinks never.

4. If yes to the above question, how often do you drink them a week?

Coffee roughly once a day. Depending on my mood, anywhere up to 4 a day. Sometimes I 'go off' coffee and dislike it for weeks at a time, in that case I usually have one tea a day.
As for soft drinks- really only on special occasions.

5. Did you find the essay informative?

Yes, I enjoyed reading it as much as it is possible to enjoy an essay.

6. Did you find the essay easy to read?

I found it very easy to read. I stumbled over some of the chemical compound names, but I did understand them as I have a grounding in chemistry.

[Il Palazzo]

1.29
2.Male.
3.Yea - I'm a coffee purist and a snob.
4.I usually drink 1-3 espressos per day. Black as night, bitter as love.
5.What do you mean coffee has been giving me cancer all those years?
6.It was ok. Not a gripping read, but by no means a boring one.

I want you to drink an espresso an feel sophisticated while you do it.

[Tiruin]

1. 17
2. Male
3. Yes. Energy drinks though, coffee is on the occasion.
4. Depending on the situation, ~2 per week without any strenuous events. ~5 when they occur.
5. Yes, not much I already know but informative and enlightening on many parts, too.
6. Very much! Although, I do love learning by myself, this has some nice tidbits you won't normally get.

You are to lead a happy and healthy life.

I'll second this one.

This is my request. Make it happen good sir.

[lordnincompoop]

Thanks for the responses and feedback, everyone! It's great to see them all.

I'm going to leave this open until the 12th to collect any more replies people want to make - and I'll leave the offer open for anyone who comes by.

I have to whine about something though...the essay is somewhat poorly written.  It's supposed to be a technical paper, right?

Actually, no it isn't. It's supposed to be a pop-sci paper, or some equivalent. All your points have been noted, however, and will be addressed.

A few other things, mainly redundancies:

Noted.

Also in the penultimate paragraph, 'you just want 'dispensing', not 'dispensing with', as the latter means 'getting rid of', which suggests that No-Doz are a concentrated, decaffeinated coffee pill.

Noted.

I feel required to point out two things in the paper:

Noted.

You also use measurements non-standard in the metric world. Somewhat US-centric, wouldn't you agree?

95mg to 200mg for every 240ml/8oz (one cup) of brewed coffee

Not necessarily, but noted nonetheless.

You are to lead a happy and healthy life.

You are to lead a happy and healthy life.

I'll second this one.

You are to lead a happy and healthy life.

This is my request. Make it happen good sir.

Thank you, but I do believe I'm quite happy already - I'm working on the second, too.

[Strife26]

1. How old are you?
19, but I'll be 20 on the 26th.

2. What gender are you?
Male

3. Do you drink any caffeinated beverages?
Yes. Various and depending on what my conditions are. I'm a heavy tea drinker, but not generally for the caffeine as well as soft drinks (*American* Coke, generally) now and then. When my schedule demands, I'll drink Red Bull, coffee, and whatever other energy drinks are around.

4. If yes to the above question, how often do you drink them a week?
Depends on the week. I'm the guy listed in the off-handed comment about the use of caffeine during military type operations. When I was standing in a watch tower looking through nods with no one but my rifle and a machine gun to talk to, I burnt through two cans of Rippit per shift, possibly more. Same thing with driving missions. Or, like right now, where my sleep schedule is messed up, I'm trying to stop taking naps during the day, so I'm probably going to drink three red bulls to try to trip it back and drink one a day to keep it going.
Back when I was working a desk with horrible hours and didn't sleep a full day for a few months, I was going through a pot and a half by myself every night.

Generally though, a regular week would only have me drink maybe three cups of black tea and a Coke. However, I don't have many regular weeks, it seems.


5. Did you find the essay informative? Yes. Fair bit of good information, although as a popsci article I'd really prefer more information. I found the tone good pretty good as well, with just the right amount of caution and judgement, combined with not overstating the risks.

6. Did you find the essay interesting to read? Yes. I found the last full paragraph on the third page a bit awkward though.


One note, though, I'm only awake and active thanks to a can of red bull, so I may be missing stuff.



For my request, I think that I'll request that you put on a top-hat, do a jig on a park picnic table, having a picture taken while you are doing it, then post the picture here.

[sonerohi]

1. How old are you? 16 years and 7 months good sir.
2. What gender are you? Male until proven otherwise.
3. Do you drink any caffeinated beverages (such as coffee, tea, soft drinks or energy drinks)? Yes, soft drinks.
4. If yes to the above question, how often do you drink them a week? 2-3 times daily, for roughly 18 or 19 cans in a week which is 216~ fluid ounces.
5. Did you find the essay informative? Informative and disheartening.
6. Did you find the essay interesting to read? Indeed I did.

I'll back up or put forward that your paper comes off as extremely informal. You use a clinical, accurate type of speech for the body text, but then slip your personal views/thoughts in in the parentheses, which are also where your citations are at. The overall effect is disconcerting and makes it seem like you are trying to sound ribald rather than actually letting your personality into your paper.

My request: Breathe deeply twice and then see if you are a wizard.