{"id":6373,"date":"2012-10-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/10\/09\/usage-guidance-for-a-popcorn-machine-in-the-kitchenette\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T23:41:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T06:41:22","slug":"usage-guidance-for-a-popcorn-machine-in-the-kitchenette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20121009-00\/?p=6373","title":{"rendered":"Usage guidance for a popcorn machine in the kitchenette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/kclemson\/\">KC Lemson<\/a> tipped me off to a sign hanging next to a popcorn machine in one of the kitchens:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: solid black .75pt; margin-left: 2em;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 1ex;\">\n<p>Please <b>do not leave<br \/>\npopcorn kettle on<\/b><br \/>\nwhile unattended.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/02\/26\/9969665.aspx#9970021\"> The fire truck will<br \/>\ncome<\/a>, and they don&#8217;t<br \/>\nwant any popcorn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: red; font-size: 30pt;\">\ud83d\ude92<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A friend of mine happened to have a chat with a fire fighter who used to be assigned to the fire station nearest to Microsoft main campus. According to him, the top three reasons for being called to a Microsoft building are (in no particular order)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burnt popcorn.<\/li>\n<li>Somebody has a panic attack and mistakes it for a heart attack.<\/li>\n<li>Somebody pulls the fire alarm because they are under a lot of stress because they missed a deadline, and they think pulling the fire alarm will buy them some time. (Where do they think they are, college?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firepreventionweek.org\/\"> Fire Prevention Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague KC Lemson tipped me off to a sign hanging next to a popcorn machine in one of the kitchens: Please do not leave popcorn kettle on while unattended. The fire truck will come, and they don&#8217;t want any popcorn. \ud83d\ude92 A friend of mine happened to have a chat with a fire fighter [&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-6373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>My colleague KC Lemson tipped me off to a sign hanging next to a popcorn machine in one of the kitchens: Please do not leave popcorn kettle on while unattended. The fire truck will come, and they don&#8217;t want any popcorn. \ud83d\ude92 A friend of mine happened to have a chat with a fire fighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373","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=6373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/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=6373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}