{"id":44954,"date":"2015-05-01T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2015\/05\/01\/thats-not-how-you-start-a-boat\/"},"modified":"2015-05-01T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T07:00:01","slug":"thats-not-how-you-start-a-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150501-01\/?p=44954","title":{"rendered":"That&#039;s not how you start a boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Opening Day of the Seattle boating season. (Which, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/05\/08\/592352.aspx\"> as I noted some time ago<\/a>, is purely a social occasion with no legal significance.)\n One of my colleagues is not much of a boat person, but his wife is. (In fact, she&#8217;s a commercial fisherman.) They were on board some fancy boat or other as it sat docked. He was up on the top deck&mdash;this being a boat so fancy that it had an upstairs and a downstairs&mdash;and as the preparations were made for heading out, his wife called out to him to start the boat, since he&#8217;s up there already.\n Now, as I mentioned, my colleague isn&#8217;t much of a boat person. But he figured, &#8220;These modern boats, how hard can it be? It&#8217;s probably pushbutton nowadays.&#8221; So he looked at the control panel and saw a bright red button. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/05\/13\/8497704.aspx\">Red button<\/a>, that&#8217;s probably the power button, right?&#8221;\n The button looked like a letter V with a dot in the middle, or at least that&#8217;s how it was described to me.\n Immediately upon pressing the button, alarms rang on board the boat, and the Coast Guard called them on the radio.<\/p>\n<p> It turns out that the V with a dot is not the power button. It is the &#8220;man overboard&#8221; button. The dot is the person&#8217;s head, and the letter V represents the two flailing arms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Opening Day of the Seattle boating season. (Which, as I noted some time ago, is purely a social occasion with no legal significance.) One of my colleagues is not much of a boat person, but his wife is. (In fact, she&#8217;s a commercial fisherman.) They were on board some fancy boat or other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-44954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Tomorrow is Opening Day of the Seattle boating season. (Which, as I noted some time ago, is purely a social occasion with no legal significance.) One of my colleagues is not much of a boat person, but his wife is. (In fact, she&#8217;s a commercial fisherman.) They were on board some fancy boat or other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}