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IAMA under-desk leg jiggler, AMA. (P.S. I also chew pens.)
Yuck! 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?
I wondered about this for years - because I do it all the time. 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".
Geez... why would this have anything to do with "engineers"? Engineers are not some special creature.
Amazing how you can almost always find a relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/228/ (also, why is this on the front page?)
> It is just me or is it that when engineers are programming and sitting behind a desk, they constantly shake their legs?? It's just you. I've worked in several teams and maybe one in five does that. So no "engineers" as in "the majority of them". Occasionally of course (once an hour or a couple of hours), all do it and SHOULD do it. For the same reasons you are told to do it in an airplane. Thrombosis et all.
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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.
It's an art. You are either born with or have to learn it "the hard way". ;-)
I was born capable of all three. I still wonder if I'm destined for Great things, or just a freak
I don't shake my legs. 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 enviro…
I wondered about this for years - because I do it all the time. 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".
Maybe that's the answer for you. I nearly never drink any coffeine and still do it since my childhood.
It isn't just engineers... Everyone does this. It's just a habit that people have like pen clicking or nail biting.
And then, on my mother's side, nobody I can think of does it. My mother hates leg-shaking. I try to be decent about it when she's in the room. Fortunately, my wife - who doesn't approve of legshaking, and seldom shakes a leg - doesn't really give me grief about it. Guess she's written me off as a leg-shaker, and accepted it as one of "those" things.