Sunday, February 25, 2007

Concrete Measure of Geekiness

As I was just chatting with a friend just now using an instant messaging service, my cat chose that very moment to present me with a face full of brown eye. I was in the middle of typing my reply to a question, a simple three letter affirmative. But, suddenly confronted with cat ass, I exhibited the natural automatic reaction. Even as I did this, I continued to type my response, only now my fingers were one row below their usual home row position, thus rendering my intended "yes" as "jdx." Upon seeing this, I marveled at how two independent processes, both controlled by instinct, had taken place simultaneously.

"Wow," I thought, "my brain is a dual-core processor."

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