Eccentric Or Just Geeky
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I currently have 17 individual applications open on my taskbar. I'm using them all. And that's not counting my ridiculously overcrowded system tray.

I'm also not counting the separate instances of individual programs. Like the 3 databases I'm editing in Access or the 8 php pages I have open in PHP designer.

Cheers

Edit: 18 - just got a Skype call.
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 23:32, 18 replies)

Yeah, I'm going to go with Geeky on that one
If you don't mind.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 23:52, closed)

Eccentric would be
if 16 of those applications concerned say... Crustaceans.

Unless of course you were a marine biologist.
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 23:57, closed)

Neither, I'm afraid.
Admitting to the use, modification or design of an Access database is an automatic disqualification.

Unless you're using it to record and analyse the migratory patterns of African swallows.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 0:06, closed)

What... is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow?

( Lord_Munkee, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 0:15, closed)

What... is your favourite colour?
Blue - no, green - no, wait, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 0:32, closed)

No Choice
I'm working on converting a bunch of Filemaker Pro DBs into MySQL. Access is an intermeadiate step.

If you think Access is bad you want to try FileMaker.
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 3:47, closed)

Eew
*shudders*
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 7:45, closed)

shitting hell
and i thought it was difficult trying to talk to 3 people on msn, one person in my room, and order booze to be delivered
( weaver., Fri 31 Oct 2008, 0:19, closed)

Ordering booze was your downfall
If you already had the booze in your tummy, you should have no problem juggling that many people and more.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 31 Oct 2008, 1:06, closed)

I suppose calling the notification area
the "system tray" also counts towards disqualification. ;-)
( benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 1:19, closed)

What
the shuddering fuck is the "notification area"?

And bear in mind that I've 25+ years in IT and thats the first I've heard it called that...
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 3:49, closed)

As of XP
it's the notification area...

System tray was a Windows 95/98/possibly Me (not that anyone ever used it) concept.

Get to know!

(I still call it the system tray as well. Although embarrassingly, due to the ineptitude of our users, I mostly seem to call it 'the bit by the clock')
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 10:00, closed)

That thing has a name!?

(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 20:28, closed)

According to Raymond Chen,
a Microsoft developer who works on the Windows shell, it's always been called the notification area.

Doesn't stop everyone from calling it the "system tray", but pedantry tends to go hand-in-hand with geekery. ;-)
( benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 20:35, closed)

25+ years doesn't mean everyone expects you to know everything.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sat 1 Nov 2008, 4:09, closed)

But
it's called the system tray :o|
(Wallilay has been bored of this shit since, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 9:55, closed)

I'm going to say neither,
just busy. Unless they're all browser windows with porn sites open.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 20:28, closed)

I have no doubt you know what 'eccentric' means, and I know that you know 'geeky' has little to do with this qotw...

So... were you trying to tell us something else?
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sat 1 Nov 2008, 5:31, closed)