I’ve always been a computer multitasker. Back when we were running unstable comupters at home (ie. Windows 95), my computer nerd brother Jason used to get so frustrated with me because he’d see eight programs sitting on my taskbar. At work, when Miriam briefly sat at my computer to open a file, she was boggled by the fifteen programs I had open. I alt-tab and control-T in my sleep.

I’m like an insatiable energy gorging monster alien. Every time humanity thinks it has defeated me by inventing more and more powerful computer processors, I just expand into the gap and add more programs to the taskbar. MUAHAHAHA!

However, now I have truly outdone myself. I’m at work running twelve, count ’em, twelve computers in parallel. I’m modelling all the little air particles sitting above Tasmania. All the computers are connected to one monitor, one keyboard and one mouse. I use a fancy black box to switch between computers. It’s awesome. It’s more than I can handle. I find myself trying to alt-tab between computers. I can barely remember what each computer is doing. It doesn’t help that I’m blogging 🙂