BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?

Subject: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 11:48 AM

How many screens you have open right now, and what's in 'em?

(Loving my new 19" flatpanel monitor!)

1. Mudcat, been reviewing threads, posting a little, starting this
2. YouTube
3. Total Recorder, saving files to aquajogging folder
4. System clock to time cadence to build filenames for above
5. Hotmail comes and goes as needed
6. Word comes and goes as needed


You?

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 11:53 AM

Correcting my wrongly attributed postings!
G

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 12:06 PM

:~)

I'm going after fast-paced stuff now, a jogging cadence of 140+ beats per minute, so I'm getting to know bands I never bothered to hear before. Blondie, B52s. Wild! For example, filename:

168 Blondie - Denis

... will show up on my waterproof MP3 player sorted into the middle of a faster and faster workout, by folder.

MTV has a "similar to" feature in their database, but the youTube videos open better, so I'm bouncing from band to band having a riot! It will all be great fun, in the water-- like water-dancing suspended in deep water!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: JennyO
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 12:57 PM

I have Thunderbird open, and in Firefox, I have 18 tabs open right now:

1 & 2. Mudcat (2 tabs)
3. Linkmaker
4. The Annexe
5. Sydney weather
6. Sydney radar
7. Canterbury weather (more local)
8. Maitland weather (going to that area next weekend)
9. Walka Water Works (the actual place we are going to next weekend - the event is called Sessionfest)
10. Newcastle Folk Club page (the guys who are putting this weekend on)
11. whereis.com (plotting the route to Sessionfest)
12. YouTube
13. Australian Chamber Orchestra (concert with Danny Spooner we are going to tomorrow)
14. JAM - the NSW Folk Federation website which has an article about the Danny Spooner concert posted by Sandra in Sydney
15. Google
16. Wikipedia (something I was looking up)
17. A page of Spike Milligan quotes
18. Music from ESMM which has links to a lot of Morris tunes

Not to mention I am charging a new cordless phone, making a list for next weekend, glancing at the TV from time to time, folding a basket of clothes, clearing up the kitchen and boiling the kettle right now.

There is a bag of tangled ropes (which I refer to as 'spaghetti') awaiting my attention - from the last time I camped and packed up quickly in the dark and the rain, but I think they will have to wait till tomorrow (after the Danny Spooner concert).

I s'pose I should sleep at some point too. It's past bedtime.

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 02:02 PM

Yeah, I wnet and boiled/peeled some hardcooked eggs for Hardi to devil later, as well as running elastic into 7 nightdresses/ refolding, and putting them away.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 04:20 PM

Playing Spider solitaire, Mudcat threading, chatting with Giok and watching a particularly gory CSI New York...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:46 AM

Not too many. I use 6 screens; one has my calender open, one has a paused Sherlock Holmes movie (Wohner as Holmes), and one has qps which I often find useful.

Linux allows switching between multiple screens on one monitor.

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 10:03 AM

I'm back to YouTube for a few more tunes. I especially like the ones the music companies put up-- good sound quality and if they put it up, they don't mind I'm taking it.

Today I'm off after Bruce Hornsby and Don Henley stuff, about 176 -184 BPM. Of course I knew their music, but I never realized how fast the underpulse is, under a slow and non-irritating vocal.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 10:03 AM

Currently using someone else's Linux box, doing updates which chews the dialup bandwith

Playing Gweled

A couple of threads here

watching ABC TV

picking nose...

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 10:06 AM

Your puder will do that?!?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: JennyO
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:12 AM

It's amazing what some computers can do these days, Susan :-)

Mack/misophist - does this mean you've got Beryl? I got it recently, which gives me 4 desktops, like a rotating cube, but I haven't really got into exploring all its uses yet. With 18 tabs open on this one, there really hasn't been much need yet....

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:13 AM

I think he used a thumb drive to do the trick. :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: JennyO
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:22 AM

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:25 AM

No Beryl yet. I upgrade the machine piece by piece and haven't wanted to spend the money for a high end video card yet. KDE displays multiple desktops separately, listing them in the pager.

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: JennyO
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:34 AM

OK, I see.

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:49 AM

Listening to Meet the Press on TV in the background, let the dog in and fed him
while I waited for email to load. Checking in threads at Mudcat while I have another
browser open to google, and of course, drinking coffee!

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: bobad
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 12:53 PM

I'm flossing my teeth and reading Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 08:48 PM

I watched a movie and ate some potato chips. That's the extent of my multi-tasking. I'm retired. Multi-tasking is not mentioned in my life anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 03:53 AM

Ranger - you mean you no longer take the newspaper into the bathroom? That's REALLY retired!

I'm converting a picture into a cross stitch chart, checking my sponsored walk route for next weekend (see assorted Breast Cancer help/sponsored walk threads), trying to see round a cat that's parked its arse in front of the monitor and debating whether to put clothes on.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 07:24 PM

Reading in the bathroom is something I've done for so long I didn't even consider it. Actually, I've never read the paper in the BR, since I have a whole library in there.

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 07:41 PM

You can open more than one window at a time? Oh, shite. My life just got complicated.

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 08:23 PM

I multitasked myself right into a snit today, and I wasn't even online.

Note to self-- stay online!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: Songster Bob
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 10:36 PM

Watching the Senators / Ducks NHL finals game, reading Mudcat and the occasional lefty blog, plus playing a tune or two or three on my tack-head (14" shell) fretless banjo.

And drinking some Woodchuck Amber cider (I'd sooner their dark and dry, but the closest sales place doesn't carry that kind).

And reading email -- earlier it was my bandmates talking about our set at the somewhat water-soaked Washington Folk Festival yesterday (we're asking each other what we heard from audience members -- did they like it?), and now it's my wife asking about a new digital camera (hers seems to somehow be going fuzzy in focus).

A typical evening.

Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 09:12 AM

"trying to see round a cat that's parked its arse in front of the monitor and debating whether to put clothes on"

Your cats wear clothes - weeeeeell now we have to wonder about your tits too, I suppose...

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: MMario
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 09:18 AM

I'm amazed that her cat debates with her. Most cats just *order* their humans around.

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 09:04 PM

aRCHIVING, ARCHIVING, DELETING, DELETING.....

damn capslock!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 09:26 AM

Breathing, digesting breakfast, sipping tea, worrying about the time so I can get to work on, thinking, typing, utilizing my optic sensors, typing (keyboarding for all you Digital Natives), and all this while phagocytes and other nice cells search out and destroy other nasty cells. My lungs are adding oxygen to the hemoglobin in my red cells so that they can carry it to my bodily extemities, my heart is pumping away, neurons and synapses are functioning, intestinal ciliae and muscles are carrying food from my stomach to my intestines (see #2, above), and my body is converting glucose to heat (it's 47 F outside).

But I'm not multitasking on the computer. I'm kind of an old-fashioned sort of guy, I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha Multi-Tasking Right Now?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 10:52 AM

Rapaire - that is such a lovely image... now pass me the bucket please?

LTS