Frobnicate

[youhn]

My PC serves me daily quotes or stories. This one appears to hit the fractal nature of meaning of words. Fun thing about definitions is that there seems to be no way at all to check if a definition is "correct", whatever correct means.

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.

Seems this forums houses more frobbers than the average slice of population.

[mclarekin]

thanks Youhn,  a cool funny useful new word.

[hobold]

Hmm, I don't think I grok this.

[SamTiba]

frobbing is a lot of fun, especially in the worlds of fractals
tweaking sounds like searching for something you already know where to find, but frobbing is more like 'life, show me something new!' which works perfectly fine for fractals