The distant stare coupled with a lack of
motivation to sleep, eat, or defecate. This state is usually brought on by all night coding sessions
trying to chase after that last bug. Applicable to web and
application programmers alike.
When they finally broke down
the door, they found poor Joe
long gone his face frozen in a classic coders glaze fingers still grasping
the mouse as an angry 404 error stared back at him from the screen.