I'm going to be contracting at Microsoft starting next week. I'll be working on developer support materials for the .Net Micro Framework (this is a version of .Net for devices smaller than PDAs, like the smart watches). Developers developers developers!

So, now that I know where I'll be working for the next year or so, and given that I have to move out of my current place by the end of May, I've started looking for a new apartment. A lot of the local places have remodeled recently, which means not just higher rents, but also new kitchens with built-in microwaves. They all have the microwaves over the stove, which is about the most retarded arrangement possible. Reach up into the microwave cavity so you can pull out hot food and spill it all over your head. I would say that fully 50% of the apartments I found online tonight had kitchens with this "feature."

Perhaps I'm just frustrated because I just bought a new microwave (a non-retarded inverter model from Panasonic) a couple of months ago...

Re: new job, microwave stupidity

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Matt 3/21/2007 1:05:34 AM Pacific

Are you kidding? That's exactly what I want. My mom got that when she had the farm kitchen remodeled, combining the microwave with the hood over the cooktop and the light.
But for us, it's not "over our head" - it's below eye level, and we don't put huge stockpots full of food in the microwave anyway. I have the reverse problem, which is a full-size microwave taking up 25% of all my kitchen counter space. With a permanent drainer taking up another 15% (no dishwasher in the house), I'd love to have the counterspace back by putting the mwave over the stove.

Jerry Kindall

3/21/2007 1:21:34 AM Pacific

Yeah, probably I'm just frustrated that I bought a nice microwave that I won't be able to use at my new place.

Daniel Talsky

3/21/2007 2:47:00 AM Pacific

Whoa. A Jerry Kindall blog post. And he acts like it's no big deal.

Scott

3/21/2007 7:27:26 AM Pacific

Next thing you know, Dean Allen will post again.

Marty

4/1/2007 10:31:04 AM Pacific

Dude. I know how tall you are...

Steven Mediodia

4/5/2007 7:11:09 PM Pacific

You have more to worry about than falling hot pizza rolls, Microsoft boy:
"If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will..." -Yoda

Lori	6/13/2007 2:28:23 PM Pacific

In response to your comment on Dori's "Hire Me" post (I was torn between commenting here appropos of nothing, and hijacking her comments)... you said something that struck a chord: "a writer who can code". We have a task that needs the flipside of that equation: a coder who can write (although I'd take a writer who can code over a writer who can't any day). Unfortunately, the hiring manager is not on our (engineering) team; the req is in the documentation group. Somehow, every time, we get a writer who doesn't understand the code well enough to write about it (even if s/he's a decent writer otherwise), and so the specs get pasted into the documentation with no editing (and often in the wrong place). So. Frustrating.
Anyway, no point, really, except to say "yay for writers who can code [and vice versa]!" I wish I had the power to hire one.

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