Is MSFT-YHOO really just a high-budget Intervention TV special?

A tipster chimes in to tell us that Silicon Valley's OC-80 addiction took firm hold in one of its fastest-declining companies, Yahoo.

Right now I'm working a contract for a company and the last person i interviewed with -- a former Yahoo employee -- asked who I knew at Yahoo. I told him and he's like ohhhh yeah all the great times, i remember we'd do OC and other stuff in the bathrooms.

So. Well. Sniff. Do you, Yahoo?

Obviously Yahoo!'s coders were not really up to snuff since we all know Real Programmers  subsist entirely on highly caffeinated beverages purchased from ThinkGeek.

Moral of the story? It's ok for your VC to be  so blitzed out of his mind that he keeps handing you money. We don't reccomend coders indulge in things that make you sleepy. I guess the Valley equivilant of "hugs not drugs" should be "wired not fired"

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to pull down whether or not Congress has a unified drug policy/testing program for its' Members and staff. We know about Patrick Kennedy's little ambien problem (but the Kennedy's don't really count for this kind of thing, they get a family exemption) but really, would there be more innovative legislation and policymaking coming out of my side of the country if Congress (and the FCC, for that matter) got a little "creative?"

Hell, AOL was the last major tech company in the DC area, despite the Northern Virginia wish to be crowned the Silicon Valley of the East (that would probably belong to Research Triangle Park in NC). Maybe we'd have more inter-coastal innovative competition of this side of things had more stuffed noses and fewer stuffed shirts.

 (not that I'm serious, of course...)