I got up with a great irritation as my mobile cum alarm clock starting going mad at 6 in the morning. After couple of snoozes I got up, took shower and was ready to leave the apartment by 7:15. I reached my office by 8:30 and the first thing I need is coffee. Damn it the coffee machine is not working. It is working and not working at the same time. Its hardly a surprise as the name of the coffee bar itself is hbar, not a classic bar. So these kind of things are bound to happen as the place is bound to haunted by the dead and alive Schrodinger's cat.
The problem with the coffee machine is that it always shows the message 'please fill the water tank' even when the water tank is overflowing. People have tried a number of solutions. One cult following Prof X, the founder of that cult, believed that if you tap the message screen, the machine will work. It did indeed, occasionally, with a success probability of half. Another group of people believe that Dr S is a holy spirit and the machine responds to his touch. There are people who do the daily ritual of taking out the water tank and cleaning the contact area of the machine and the water tank in the hope that the machine will work.
Equally interesting is a group of people who don't believe in such superstitions or they don't want to believe in such things openly. Though one can often find them using the concoction of different methods which, if you ask them publicly, are superstitions.
I went there, took out the water tank from the coffee machine, shook it a bit till a small plastic cube inside a tube in the water tank lifted up. I replaced the water tank back and the machine allowed me to prepare my coffee. I think the machine like to be tickled or it knows who are sincere to it. And I think that the machine thinks ( if it can) that I am sincere to it because, thanks to my friend Dr A who told me this trick (or the logic behind the water tank mystery), it always allows me to get my coffee.
Dr A told me this logic a while age and since then I tried to spread the words as much as I could. But then the other methods also are working is not it. If sometime they do not work, probably the reason is that they did not do it right. Their methods are as sound as my, just that their methods are more delicate and require high precision. Like you need to tap the screen at exactly the right spot. The spot can change on daily basis. So you need to tap at several places to locate the right position of the spot. The position of the spot can change even on tapping. So there is no guaranty that the position of the spot you have just found is the same after you have tapped it. If the stars are not at the right position then the holyness of the holy spirit can also change and one may not get the coffee.
Therefore, saying that my methods are more robust is just an opinion. In fact all the facts are just opinions. And a person in the right state of mind does not have opinions. I don't want to impose my opinions on anyone now and sip my coffee in peace while others are still trying to find the right spot.
The problem with the coffee machine is that it always shows the message 'please fill the water tank' even when the water tank is overflowing. People have tried a number of solutions. One cult following Prof X, the founder of that cult, believed that if you tap the message screen, the machine will work. It did indeed, occasionally, with a success probability of half. Another group of people believe that Dr S is a holy spirit and the machine responds to his touch. There are people who do the daily ritual of taking out the water tank and cleaning the contact area of the machine and the water tank in the hope that the machine will work.
Equally interesting is a group of people who don't believe in such superstitions or they don't want to believe in such things openly. Though one can often find them using the concoction of different methods which, if you ask them publicly, are superstitions.
I went there, took out the water tank from the coffee machine, shook it a bit till a small plastic cube inside a tube in the water tank lifted up. I replaced the water tank back and the machine allowed me to prepare my coffee. I think the machine like to be tickled or it knows who are sincere to it. And I think that the machine thinks ( if it can) that I am sincere to it because, thanks to my friend Dr A who told me this trick (or the logic behind the water tank mystery), it always allows me to get my coffee.
Dr A told me this logic a while age and since then I tried to spread the words as much as I could. But then the other methods also are working is not it. If sometime they do not work, probably the reason is that they did not do it right. Their methods are as sound as my, just that their methods are more delicate and require high precision. Like you need to tap the screen at exactly the right spot. The spot can change on daily basis. So you need to tap at several places to locate the right position of the spot. The position of the spot can change even on tapping. So there is no guaranty that the position of the spot you have just found is the same after you have tapped it. If the stars are not at the right position then the holyness of the holy spirit can also change and one may not get the coffee.
Therefore, saying that my methods are more robust is just an opinion. In fact all the facts are just opinions. And a person in the right state of mind does not have opinions. I don't want to impose my opinions on anyone now and sip my coffee in peace while others are still trying to find the right spot.
