During the past couple of days, I’ve suffered from this malady. Its characteristics include: having too many windows open at once, losing track of where you were in an IM session, confusion, linking to the wrong web page, and in general, becoming suddenly stupid.
The Pacione Effect© can hit anyone, at any time, with no warning signs. It can hit even when its victim has caffeine coursing through his or her veins, but is “wired-tired.”
There is no known cure for this malady. Cessation of reading his blog entries for a few days, however, can bring it into remission.
-Dr. Freudenstein (aka Rusty)
As I understand it, there is a group of medical researchers attempting to find a cure for pacione-poisoning. Suggestions for prevention include wearing a haz-mat suit if their is any chance of coming into contract with the contagion known as Pacione.