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Posted by danridley | Filed under User Interface
I’ve always enjoyed the fact that you can set microwaves to double-digit values higher than 60. You can put something in for 99 seconds, and get virtually 1:40 worth of irradiation while only having to press two digits. It feels like cheating the system or something. (Even more fun is nuking something for, say, 1:90. Now that twists the mind around. I fully expect to eventually discover that some mid-80s sci-fi show used this as a critical plot point to confuse an android or something.)