Why would I want to listen to music while I'm watching a movie while working in Excel and surfing the internet!?
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Replace "watching a movie" with "participating in this forum" and add "configuring a fiber connection to a SAN on a VMWare host cluster" and "setting up a laptop" to the list, and that's what I'm doing right now.
I do the movie watching at home. And then replace the Excel with "playing WoW."
What, you can't multitask?
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- Francis Bacon
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers