"ever-lucid"? Me?
Sweetie, I'd love to know who's been using my name when chatting with you!
Ehh, you may act as if yer lal flighty and struff, but that "Shrek dwagin" thing is just an alter ego. A naffectation, even. Remember, I can read people (a little). You're really serious, responsible and clear-thinking when the situation calls for it. (And what are librarians in general, if not level-headed?)

As for multitasking... That is such a misnomer. I find that there are relatively few instances of true multitasking, and that most of "multitasking" is actually sequential single-tasking.
No kidding - I personally know that I use highly-preemptive scheduling: multi-level feedback ready queues (when I'm trasking students), dynamic priority (when my brain is working well), round-robin (usually, the rest of the time).

My parents tend to favor real-time or shortest-job-first scheduling (with a little dynamic priority for emergencies).

How's that for tronkie process management?

The trick there is to make sure that the overhead involved in rapid switches from task to task is minimal.
Just so.

Sooner or later, though, the "multitasker" reaches an upper limit, depending on the number of tasks, their complexity, their priority, and the resources required to switch back and forth.
There you go - it's that switching overhead!
Not only that, but as you said, the pipeline gets full and balls needs must drop from the jugglement.

Attempts to push past this limit by sheer force of will are generally a bit less than completely successful.
Oh, I dunno about that.
If there's one thing I have in spades, it's sheer force of will.
I never give up. (And I almost never say "never".)

/me continues to blink
Sooo... How about looking innocent as an art form?
Well, you have a lille competition from deire, who holds an overseas patent (well, extragalactic) for the loonk... :-)

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Banazir