Presumptuous microwaves
What is it with the designers of microwave interfaces? I don’t really get their need to try and tell me what to do next, given the small amount of available space and character display limitations on the microwave touchpad/LCD. For example, if I open the door on the microwave at work to check on how the reheating is going, the display kindly tell me to “close the door.” Gee, thanks.
Of course, the best messages are the ones displayed when the time you selected is up; the one at my old job displayed “enjoy your meal” and the one at the Zymeta offices takes the cake for presumptuousness: “your meal is ready” … how the heck does it know that my meal is ready? I’m pretty sure that it actually has no idea because I put some soup in there for one minute last week and it was far from “ready” … it needed another minute before it was warm.
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:19 Posted in General
