Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Milk to the count of 10

What has the count of 1 to 10 got to do with a glass of milk? If you are somewhere around my age and without a kid (around 30s) then the answer would be impossible to find. But if you are somewhere my age and with a kid, then the answer could be more easy to fathom. One of my friends son has joined school a few days back and so now he gets up early every day to GO TO SCHOOL. My friend has been entrusted with the job of "Making him drink milk every morning". Sounds easy. For me, it does as I have no direct experience but ask my friend.

Every morning, my friend has to count from 1 to 10 and the 10 should not come before the last sip in the glass of milk is down the kids throat. Otherwise, the count begins again.

And wonder what, the kid yesterday taught his mother the count from 1 to 10. So if you believe you have learned the count from 1 to 10 early in your life, then just wait till you are the PROUD PARENT of a kid. You would definitely need to Unlearn to Learn the new count.
Can you fine-tune it before tuning it?

Consider the case where you do not know the frequency of a FM station and you need to find out. What would you do?

Step A: Do automatic tuning
Step B: Do fine tuning to get to the exact frequency

This is the most efficient way of doing it.

But what if you Skip Step A and go off to Step B straight away. In that case, you will get the results but GOD knows when.

So can you fine-tune anything even before tuning it?

My guess would be NO. But you guess it. Managers always have a new trick in their bags. He told one of my colleagues that we will fine-tune the design later. My colleagues reaction was: Boss, when did we tune it in the first place?