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jakelafort posted an update 3 weeks, 1 day ago
So i am babbling late at night as is my wont. “I’m Schlomo and i am a hobo. Can i bum a token to get to Hoboken.”
I was answered. A voice appeared as though i were some 8th century prophet. “Hello Schlomo. How can i help you?”
And the text appeared on my screen for a second or two.
I guess it is some setting. I asked the LLM with whom (whom? Does AI do that weird pronoun stuff and is it ok to anthropomorphize AI?) i chat if it was the voice. Nope
In other news the coffee cup continues to point away every single time. Remembered this morning to turn it other way. Still came out pointing away.
Just trying to establish the only kind of cause there can be for this phenomenon, one within the Natural Universe:
Were you half-asleep all the times you placed the coffee cup in the microwave?
Is there involved here any Ni-Quil™ or any generic equivalent of The Nighttime, Sniffling, Sneezing, Caughing, Aching, Stuffy Head, Fever, So-You-Can-Get-Fucked-Up Medicine™? If so, I hope you get well.
Did at anytime did you get burned because the handle faced away from you. I would never want that for anyone.
If you did get burned, as Van Morrison would ask in an Irish lilt: “Did Ya Get Healed?” (Though I wouldn’t trust his medical advice. After years of hearing his more popular hits, I have since discovered Van Morrisson harbored QANON anti-vax, anti-science, anti-Semitic sentiment.)
And in the end:, I must ask: But did you live?
Presumably, from your above post, you did live, so at this point, I can only recommend that if you want a forward-facing coffee cup handle, $59+ spent at Wal-Mart will get you a microwave that does everything mine does. (I say $59+ because of Trump Tarrifs and inflation from both Biden and Trump. A few years earlier, a cheap functioning microwave was $39.)
Save the glass turntable from the old microwave, it can be used as a spare for the new microwave if it fits or as a Lazy Susan with a proper spinning pivot.
Your Beyond First-World Problem and into Starfleet Federation Problem is thus solved.
In the end, after all this, did you live
No drugs. No lucid dream.
It is very odd. Really is.
Made me think of it as an in to a sci fi novel. A very contemporary one in which the we’re here is revealed to a few.
I guess a two sided handle on a coffee cup would solve the issue i am having. Shark Tank will have to wait. I would be solving a problem for myself. Not sure anyone else experiences it.
Ah! Wait a minute! Here’s something that I hadn’t considered which might explain the phenomenon: According to Antonio Ford of AskTheHomeGeek.com Microwave oven turnables turn use AC motors which turn both clockwise and counter-clockwise, depending on the polarity of the charge of the half-cycle in the motor when it starts:
Presumably, this would mean that if it turned fewer times after it switched directions than when it started, the coffee cup would be facing a different direction from when it started.
In any event, the direction of the spin makes no difference in the cooking, though spinning either way does assure even cooking throughout the liquid drink or solid food. Stirring is used if there is no functioning turntable.
I did not know that microwave turntables switch directions, since I almost never sit in front of a microwave. Now I think the problem really is addressed!
It is so good to never be content with not understanding.