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Link if you're curious
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/gform?key=0Amo8gQTQJ0Nbd...
I consider it as a soft version of light ADHD, but I doubt it has anything to do with my profession. It might be the other way around - I chose a profession where I create new things because of that trait (which might also be connected to me being easily exited about new things).
Once in a while I scratch my balls (subtlety). I have found women in the office don't scratch their balls. They adjust their bra straps. Unfortunately I don't wear a bra, otherwise I'd join in. There do seem to be a lot of moles on people around here though. There also appear to be a lot of sex toys around (It's where I work, see my profile).
What I'm getting at is that you are asking an environmental specific question. You probably find that the 'leg shaker' has a higher metabolic rate or is possibly on the thin side (studies have shown some people are thin because even when sitting, they keep moving).
You'd be surprised how much the energy required for such a small movement, performed continuously over longer periods, adds up over time.
I think it's good for us engineers. It gets us little bit of movement for otherwise immobile ourselves.
I even move around my legs and I stretch it a lot and when stretching I forget that my workstation switch is right in the corner and I switch the entire damn thing off once or twice a month - that was the reason I had to get my (our corp) backup settings on my PC modified to a little more frequent period (15 mins from an hr).
Happy shaking!
Amazing how you can almost always find a relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/228/ (also, why is this on the front page?)
Brilliant! How do you guys always manage to find the relevant ones? There's hundreds of them, and I tried a few google searches using site:xkcd.com and some related terms and couldn't pull up this one.
IAMA under-desk leg jiggler, AMA. (P.S. I also chew pens.)
Or maybe okay. I chewed few when I was in school. Was spanked without mercy and the spanking got rid me of the habit. Can't complain.
Q: Any favourite colours or flavours? Fountain or ball pen?
The answer finally came to me from trial and error of something else. This is caused by caffeine - usually from coffee. Engineers dring lots of coffee, so often suffer from this. It is a type of "jittering".