Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 27, 2016

I would call that a hat trick of bad judgment! Learn from the experience, and you will simply have been ignorant. Continue in your actions, and Ron White will be correct (if a bit acerbic), “You can’t fix stupid.”

@comicssfan I left a response for you on yesterday’s Frazz.

multi-tasking just means you are doing two things badly, rather than one correctly

The average human cannot multi-tasked successfully. You either do one well and fail the others or they are done less than well all of them.

I think the term ‘multi-tanking’ is an apt description for last night’s debate.

Multi-tasking is a myth. All operations are binary. That is, an assignment of a third thing to a pair of things. e.g 2,3 to 5 under addition. A computer can perform thousands of these assignments very quickly. Humans also can do these assignments quickly. But no matter how many things you think you are doing you are doing them one at a time assigning to a pair of things a third thing. You think you are multi-tasking when in reality you are just switching from task to task.

… Poor punctuation mixed with certitude. Not good.

It might be that in his certitude he is not asking a question, just providing the requested word.

Also it’s nice to be able to read about someone who is confident enough to grill steaks, I’m doing good to grill burgers and hot dogs successfully. I did get a new grill last spring, so next year I will try steaks, maybe even some ribs and see how they turn out.

If I remember correctly there was a study done showing that women’s brains were wired more toward multi-tasking than were men’s brains. I don’t know if there is anything to the study but my wife seems to multi task better than I do.

Ask any woman with more than one small child and they’ll tell you all about multitasking!!

Like people haplessly trying to think, compose, type and proofread at the same time… validating the inability to efficiently multi-task.

If all BigPuma has to criticize today is lack of a punctuation mark it’s a good day.

Parents and ER staffs get good at pulling up the list of things they were trying to remember before they were distracted, still need the time to refocus.I have Aspergers, and speak more easily if doing a physical task, something that’s muscle memory for things like business conversations (several professionals I work with expect my knitting, straight stockinette). You can walk in a safe place- an oval track or a treadmill- and study better because brain is getting oxygen (although you might hope the quiz is right after gym, recess, or just after walking to school so your brain is in a closer state to how it was when you learned it). Having someone watching the TV use the mute button and doing reveiw things, like flash cards, for 8 minutes or so during a show works. Of course walking on a treadmill is better than sitting to just watch TV. But no, you can’t multi-task as many people think of it

Back in the ’60’s, I used to marvel on how my oldest sister on Saturday afternoons would simultaneously Niagara Spray Starch iron her blouse and jeans, watch and dance to the American Bandstand on tv, and talk to her best friends on the phone about the dancers on the show..