There's not enough bitching

[Ranma_007]

Simon Bre! I remember you.

[Sinom Bre]

Simon Bre! I remember you.

No, I'm just a figment of Merc's imagination.

[Dracos]

Merc has an overactive imagination.

[sarsaparilla]

Fever and headache, again. Clearly, my body doesn't like me. >_>

[thepanda]

The new schedule at work is pure, unadulterated bullshit.

[Yuthirin]

First chapter says "Second Revision" at the top.

First paragraph: six gramatical mistakes and twelve spelling errors. I'm already done with this.

[Dracos]

Some folks don't know what revision means?

[Arakawa]

New addition to List of Unexpected Things I Have Caused to Explode in a Microwave: apple cider.

(Items already on the List include: liver and onions.)

[Dracos]

Wait...what?

How does apple cider explode? o_O

[sarsaparilla]

Closed container? When heated, pretty much anything explodes eventually if there isn't any room for thermal expansion. I'm more puzzled about the need to microwave apple cider in the first place....

[Brian]

Running.  Solves.  NOTHING.

New addition to List of Unexpected Things I Have Caused to Explode in a Microwave: apple cider.

(Items already on the List include: liver and onions.)

A story (as well as I can articulate, given my current state):

Once, when my mother and father were still young (and married), my mother asked my father:  "What happens if you microwave an egg?"

Quoth my father: "...it explodes."

He leaves for work that day.  Comes back home.  Nothing is amiss, but he eyes my mother and muses, "So ... what did you do today?"

Replies she, "Cleaned the microwave."

*beat*

"...you did it, didn't you."

"...yeah."

(This is Lore: Family, as I was not actually born at the time--  But a demonstration of the principle that the microwave MUST be used to detonate things.)

Entirely unrelated:

Arakawa, if you're free in the next (eternity) we should chat in IRC at (temporal coordinates undefined) so I can properly apologize to you over my various behaviors.


Edit: SO.  MUCH.  WORK.  I have been on-call or attending scripts 24/7 for the last five days.  Holy COW it's unsettling becoming inexplicably integral to so many high-level aspects of the company.  I did not realize until the CEO came to talk to me that I had carte blanche om hardware control, but now that I do know, I am absolutely disqualifying the less performant H/W in-stack.

Fever and headache, again. Clearly, my body doesn't like me. >_>

Oop, didn't catch this; hope you're feeling better now.

[Arakawa]

How does apple cider explode? o_O

Closed container? When heated, pretty much anything explodes eventually if there isn't any room for thermal expansion. I'm more puzzled about the need to microwave apple cider in the first place....

No, no closed container.

It was very nice apple cider which had been kept around a little too long and started to turn a little alcoholic? I don't know, I was exactly as surprised as you are. Ruined a perfectly nice cup, cider all over the inside of the microwave, I guess if you don't do things for Science, Science will do things for you :-(

I'm not microwaving anything with alcohol in it from now on, just to be safe... *remembers* There goes that theory... I'd been flavouring it with a dash of cognac on previous occasions, so now I have no clue what made it explode this time. Ditto with the liver and onions, being reheated on top of a perfectly open plate (I guess the outer surface of the actual liver had effectively become a sealed container from previous cooking?)

Why cider was being microwaved: lazy way to heat it up, of course. Put in two sticks of cinnamon, some nutmeg, dash of some aromatic liquor, highly recommended. Just make sure it's fresh cider, and, (given my recent experience) either make sure your sympathetic vibrations are attuned to not-blowing-things-up-in-microwaves, find a reality warper who is likewise attuned and get them to supervise the process for you, or use a stove.

Arakawa, if you're free in the next (eternity) we should chat in IRC at (temporal coordinates undefined) so I can properly apologize to you over my various behaviors.

Okay, I'll do my best to catch you at some point... can't make any guarantees as to exactly when. Hope to have an interesting conversation and not just an exchange of apologies :-)

[Brian]

I'm not microwaving anything with alcohol in it from now on, just to be safe... *remembers* There goes that theory... I'd been flavouring it with a dash of cognac on previous occasions, so now I have no clue what made it explode this time. Ditto with the liver and onions, being reheated on top of a perfectly open plate (I guess the outer surface of the actual liver had effectively become a sealed container from previous cooking?)

With only a very little grease and time to congeal, onions can asplode, too.

Why cider was being microwaved: lazy way to heat it up, of course. Put in two sticks of cinnamon, some nutmeg, dash of some aromatic liquor, highly recommended. Just make sure it's fresh cider, and, (given my recent experience) either make sure your sympathetic vibrations are attuned to not-blowing-things-up-in-microwaves, find a reality warper who is likewise attuned and get them to supervise the process for you, or use a stove.

This is the only thing I can guess, but since it wasn't clean water, it's at the statistically highly improbable end of the spectrum:

http://www.snopes.com/science/microwave.asp

[Sinom Bre]

The following video demonstrates another thing that can be detonated to a degree within a microwave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXQBHLIPcw

Not for the faint of heart. ;p

[Brian]

ugh

As a fan of Weird Al, that is my least favorite song by him, only because the content is depressing instead of hilarious.