Yeah, I forgot the name of this blog isn't "DanW's musings on the arcana of conciousness".
I discovered in a funny, roundabout way, that the cool root-window system monitor thing I see when I play with DSL (Damn Small Linux) is called Conky, and is a package for openSUSE. I found out it's called Conky, because a funny as hell Canadian comedy, "The Trailer Park Boys", had a ventriloquist dummy named Conky, and I Googled the name. And, BANG, there is that highly configurable, suck-you-in-it's-so-tweakable system monitor thing. And when it forked from torsmo, the developers named it after the dummy. And such is the circular nature of my world.
An aside - I was blathering earlier about the thinking about thinking thing that humans can do, and probably not much else, so it is a defining aspect, if not the defining aspect of humanity. Well, The Colbert Report's guest on 2009-2-5 wrote book about the neurobiology of decision-making. Well, no shit, he uttered the phrase I had lain in bed pondering - "thinking about thinking". He didn't discuss it as a defining human trait, but he mentioned it in the vein of slowing decision making to ensure you don't act too irrationally.
Anyway, TDS is on...
Later!
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