All
relationships are fraught with little conversational traps - the proverbial
"Does this dress make me look fat?" question for example. Here's an
interesting twist on a common one.
"What would you do if I died?"
Correct answer: "Dearest love, in the event of your untimely demise, life
would cease to have meaning for me and I would hurl myself under the front
tires of the first delivery truck that came my way." For those of you
that think you might want to offer a more creative answer, read on.
"Why, dear, I would be extremely upset," said the husband. "Why do you
ask such a question?"
"Would you remarry?" persevered the wife.
"No, of course not, dear" said the husband.
"Don't you like being married?" said the wife.
"Of course I do, dear" he said.
"Then why wouldn't you remarry?"
"Alright," said the husband, "I'd remarry."
"You would?" said the wife, looking vaguely hurt.
"Yes" said the husband.
"Would you sleep with her in our bed?" said the wife after a long pause.
"Well yes, I suppose I would," replied the husband.
"I see," said the wife indignantly. "And would you let her wear my old
clothes?"
"I suppose, if she wanted to," said the husband.
"Really," said the wife icily. "And would you take down the pictures of
me and replace them with pictures of her?"
"Yes. I think that would be the correct thing to do."
"Is that so?" said the wife, leaping to her feet. "And I suppose you'd
let her play with my golf clubs, too."
"Of course not, dear," said the husband. "She is left-handed."
I usually pose an intellectual challenge in
the form of an encoder-related troubleshooting question in this
section. This month I'd like to do something a little different.
A lot of our application calls start with "I need an encoder that does . . .
. ." And we end up by building an encoder model number that will do the job
for the application. In this month's challenge, I'm going to start
with an application and you try to guess which encoder model (or models)
might be the right one to specify. I'll give you three scenarios and
then I'll follow with the three recommendations. Ready?
