Fear and Loathing in the Machine Room

"Every now and then when your code gets complicated and the bugs start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then hack like a bastard from midnight to dawn. To relax, as it were, in the womb of the machine. Just bring up the kernel debugger and leave it on, bury yourself in old printouts and conjure on with the music at top volume, and at least a pound of Oreos."

Ramón Cáceres, with apologies to Hunter S. Thompson (1986) [...and the original]