Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.51.0302100018210.14687@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: unix fortune
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:18:36 -0500 (EST)
Yes, you can stop paying those high interest rates now, Alan and get a [Last message marked for deletion] Pine finished -- Closed "INBOX". Kept 3 messages and removed 4. Frobnicate, v.: To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. Derived from FROBNITZ. Usually abbreviated to FROB. Thus one has the saying "to frob a frob". See TWEAK and TWIDDLE. Usage: FROB, TWIDDLE, and TWEAK sometimes connote points along a continuum. FROB connotes aimless manipulation; TWIDDLE connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; TWEAK connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. Mon Feb 10 00:17:48 EST 2003 The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (57% of Full)