When I use my Frigidaire Gallery microwave oven my mind usually restricts the numbers I input to the normal digits allowed by a clock, such as 0 through 59.\u00a0 I used it this morning and meant to put in the right numbers but instead I pressed seven and zero.\u00a0 But instead of giving me an error, it went right ahead and started running, counting down from 70 seconds.\u00a0 HUH?\u00a0 I didn’t think it was supposed to do that!<\/p>\n
So I thought about it for a bit and decided to try it with another invalid number.\u00a0 I pressed 1, 9, and 9 and hit the start.\u00a0 It started counting down from 99 instead of 59!\u00a0 That’s really weird.\u00a0 No problem at all, it just takes whatever you press.\u00a0 That’s really goofy, I thought.\u00a0 But still it doesn’t really matter as long as the microwave oven actually runs for two minutes and thirty-nine seconds, which is what I input.\u00a0 It just lets me decide that I want what I put in, without any prejudgments on my out-of-line input.<\/p>\n
I have never tried this with any other microwave oven, probably because I just press the minute button twice for two minutes.\u00a0 My old microwave oven (I think it was a Daewoo) didn’t have a full number keypad, it had seconds, minutes and tens of minutes buttons.\u00a0 The one at work had buttons to heat a cup of coffee or cook a TV dinner; I never used the number buttons.\u00a0 Next time I’m over at someone’s house I’ll have to try to trick their microwave oven into taking some invalid numbers and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I use my Frigidaire Gallery microwave oven my mind usually restricts the numbers I input to the normal digits allowed by a clock, such as 0 through 59.\u00a0 I used it this morning and meant to put in the right numbers but instead I pressed seven and zero.\u00a0 But instead of giving me an <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-other-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9297,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions\/9297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}