2007-12-18

The Born Slippy Breakfast Experiment, Take 2

My second attempt at making tea in under 09:43 proved successful.

Alterations to the original experiment: I used Winamp instead of iTunes, during steep time I made cold cereal instead of waffles, I also poured myself a glass of water. The tea selected for the experiment was precisely the same as yesterday.

Success occurred today primarily because once I started the water to heat, I was able to have everything ready before it was needed: sugar in the glass, strainer in place. This pipelining effect minimized any time wasted in going to get something needed to prepare tea, as opposed to actually preparing it.

Further improvements are possible. For example, preparing cold cereal could optimize milk use by not putting the milk back in the cheesebox before it is also applied to the tea. In today's experiment, I returned the milk after using it and had to retrieve it a second time in order to make tea.

Another way to speed up the tea-making process was to stir the final product while returning to my room.

Total time remaining on the track by the time my tea was ready: 01:35, ample time to perform the reproductive act.

Final thoughts on today's experiment: Another option that occurred to me today, instead of active compression to combine both tea-making and the reproductive act, would be partitioning: beginning the track, starting to make tea, then performing the reproductive act while it steeps, resuming the making of tea after the five minute mark.

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