How to move a microwave oven

1. Unplug microware and rice cooker.
2. Move microwave, rice cooker, and draining rack across the kitchen.
3. Clean kitchen countertop where they were.
4. Put draining rack and microwave back.
5. Set clock on microwave.
6. See "ERROR" display.  Scratch head.  Set clock on microwave.
7. See display go blank.  Mutter darkly.  Set clock on microwave.
8. See "ERROR" display.  Swear out loud.  Set clock on microwave.
9. Shout in frustration.  Set clock on microwave.
10. DOH!!!!  The time is 17:24.¹  Belatedly realize that the clock on the microwave doesn't understand 24-hour time....

[1]  Well, it was 17:24 then.  This happened on Sunday.  suzilem happened to remind me of it today.

All I can say is ...

"...Damn, that's a lot of water."

cipherpunk, if one dare ask, how high is the river now?

Leaders of the business world

If this is the direction they're leading in, we're doomed.

Hey, NYC? Just ... go away, OK?

I'm tired of NYC trying to be the tail that wags the dog.  If it's not one thing, it's another.  You've got the Mayor going around the country making illegal straw-man gun purchases in an effort to blackmail gun dealers into accepting intrusive monitoring of their business that he has no legal authority to do.  You've got NYPD stealing legally-owned Harleys from their owners because of alleged irregularities in the way the VIN numbers are stamped, to the extent that Harley-Davidson sent out letters for all of their registered owners to carry certifying that yes, they really do own the motorcycle they're riding.

And then there's the carpool thing.  NYC will ticket you for riding a motorcycle in a HOV/carpool lane.  Federal law says you're legally permitted to do so.  (It's Title 23 United States Code, Section 166.)  NYC will ticket you anyway.  Last month's American Motorcyclist, which I just now got around to finishing, has a story about a woman who got ticketed by NYC for riding in a HOV lane and fought the ticket.  It took her three years, but finally she beat it, and a NYC administrative board acknowledged that she was exercising a legal right under Federal law and dismissed the ticket.

Most cities would, at this point, concede defeat and accept the inevitable.  But not NYC.  NYC is now trying to overturn the Federal law and get the Federal government to declare motorcycles a danger in HOV lanes nationwide.  Because NYPD wants to be able to keep writing HOV-lane tickets to motorcyclists... apparently, because they can.

You go to hell, NYC.  And NYPD specifically.  You want to be asshats in your own city, hey, that's your problem.  But you don't get to export your asshattery and make all the rest of us in the US live with it too.  We're very glad to have places that Are Not NYC.  And you can't have them.

Disclaimer:

If you live in NYC, and you like NYC, that's fine, I don't have a problem with that.  It's your city, you're allowed to like it.  But I don't have to live in your city, and you can't force me by exporting it to me.