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That's the easiest way to burn calories! 
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Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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A few years ago, I walked out of the house, and could hear this "Beep, beep, beep" noise. Tracked it down to an elderly neighbour - it was her smoke alarm.
She had one of those "lavender pillows" you heat in the microwave for 30 seconds and put on your lap for pain relief? She stuffed it in the micro, wound the timer knob to max and went back to her chair, where she fell asleep ... And I could hear it from 100m through 2 foot thick stone walls.
Wrecked the microwave, I had to redecorate the kitchen, but she was OK. Just glad I checked her smoke alarms every month. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Your good deeds don't go unnoticed 
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Neither do the rest of them
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 8-Aug-17 5:13am.
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A neighbour across the road went on vacation, and we had the constant "beep, beep" from his burglar alarm from shortly after they left, lasting for a week. I talked to one of the other tenants in the 4-apartment building: He knew very well what had caused the alarm to go off for no appearant reason; it was a well known problem. We would just have to wait until the family returned home...
I was lucky, compared to him: My house is separate, across the road. He was living in the same house as the 24/7 burglar alarm beep. He just shrugged "Such is life!" (and getting sucher and sucher every day...)
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If it's any consolation to you, my first experiences with a microwave were not very pleasant:
Tried a pizza, but it came out feeling like a wet spunge.
Tried pea-soup, but it exploded as I did not put a spoon in it, the whole microwave was splattered under !
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Microwaves have two big uses:
1) Melting butter. 20 seconds, rest 10 seconds, nuke for another 10 seconds. Ready for making Hasselback potatoes. 
2) As a Cat Safe: a secure facility for food to cool before being bagged for the fridge or freezer.
For everything else, I hate it.
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OriginalGriff wrote: As a Cat Safe
You put the cat in there to keep it safe. 
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I am expressly forbidden by Herself from putting the cat in the microwave under any circumstances, regardless of provocation. 
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Maybe if you just put some parts of the cat in the microwave oven? She didn't expressly tell you to not put parts of the cat in, did she?*
* If she did mention that, and I were you, I'd not sleep well at night.
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A separate injunction revokes my ability to remove body parts.
Something to do with the "They do well on three legs" and "Curried cat leg" plans IIRC.
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That's not how you're supposed to do hasselbackspotatis. But if it works, who cares.
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Ah the microwave or as I refer to it the magical ding box, didn't grow up with one so don't trust em' !
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It is the machine that goes "Ping!"
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OriginalGriff wrote: the machine that goes "Ping!"
You mean... they're not only used in hospitals nowadays? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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No, no, anyone can lease it back from the company they sold it to, and that way, it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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RickZeeland wrote: Tried pea-soup, but it exploded as I did not put a spoon in it, the whole microwave was splattered under !
Everybody knows that eggs will explode in a microwave; a tremendous pressure is built up until the shell can't hold it any more.
Or so I thought it was. I boiled an egg (the traditional way), peeled it, to realize that it was much too soft. So I put it on a small plate in the microwave to give it ten seconds extra. And it exploded.
It turns out that the pressure does not build up inside the shell, but inside the yolk. When it explodes (when some membrane covering it cannot hold it more), it explodes and ruptures the shell if it is there. It explodes just as much without shell being there.
If you need an excuse for (having to) cleaning up your microwave properly, try this out!
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Well, I leave the microweaving to my spouse from now on, thank you ...
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Now you know, we as nerds just love a good debate. And clearly, everyone who doesn't agree with us is intellectually inferior by substantial margins. And no other topic, save a few, has this proven to more evident than in the tabs versus spaces great debate of our generation. Now, rather than fan the flame of that saga, I'm curious to know what people still prefer for tab width (regardless of an actual tab char or if it's spaces).
For years, I've always been a four column guy with tab widths. I mean years. Anything else was stupid and bunches together what would otherwise be beautiful code. But then I started doing a lot of JavaScript development where the popular thing is to use two column widths. Ruby seems to embrace that too. It's ugly I thought. I shan't cave in. It's immoral and just wrong. But in being a team player you go along with what must be done for the sake of the project.
Now, a couple years later. I look at four column tab width code and think "well gee that's just too damn wide." I still don't like two column width. Looks like the code is still in kiddy land when I see that. I started doing some plug-in development for a Forex trading platform a few years back. It's a proprietary language and by default it uses 3 column widths in the code editor for it. At first I was like "ok wtf." But after years of using that proprietary language... turns out 3 column width is perfect!
You can use it everywhere. C#, C/C++, JavaScript. Whatever, it's a nice compromise for everyone. In this day and age where we are expected to learn 20 million things, both client and server, rather than just one language, I tend to find myself using this more and more so I don't have to readjust my eyes to differently spaced code all day long. Only problem is... nobody else uses 3 column widths that I know of.
So, I'm curious to know, what do y'all use still and why?
Jeremy Falcon
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3 is still a bit too wide so I prefer 2.718 spaces per tab.
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harold aptroot wrote: 2.718
I prefer 2.6589754 spaces, but hey, now we are splitting hairs. 
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1.618 spaces is golden.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Spaces rule and tabs drool.
2 spaces to be exact.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain
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2 spaces in all environments, like even C#?
Jeremy Falcon
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