Just so long as you don't play global thermonuclear war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecPeSmF_ikc On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane@gmail.com> wrote:
Remember the New Yorker cartoon of the guy saying to his microwave, No, I don't want to play a game of chess, I just want you to reheat the pizza? Maybe if you would play chess more often with yours, Dan, it would leave the handle at the front.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:32 PM, meekerdb <meekerdb@verizon.net> wrote:
My carousel turns one revolution in 7sec. So when I heat my coffee cup I use a multiple of 7 so that it ends up in front where I put it.
Brent
On 1/27/2014 12:58 PM, Dan Asimov wrote:
I've noticed that when I put my cup of water+teabags in the microwave to boil, it almost always end up with the cup handle pointed toward the *back* of the microwave -- the most inconvenient position for removing it. (Oh, the perversity of inanimate objects!)
(I often vary the time that it's in there. The "teacup" is a modern 2-cup pyrex measuring cup, so the handle is a significant fraction of the cup's weight.)
--Dan
On 2014-01-26, at 6:28 PM, James Propp wrote:
Why do microwave ovens alternate between rotating the
food-carousel clockwise and rotating it counterclockwise (or, as the Brits would say, anticlockwise)?
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