fine whine

Have you ever taken a good look inside your refrigerator? I mean, when you're not looking for munchies or trying to communicate with leftovers that have gone bad. Chances are good that there's a dial or two to control just how cold the fridge and the freezer get. Chances are even better that there's a label somewhere there that says something like "9 is coldest".

I've noticed this inside more than one fridge lately. I've never checked if there's anything past 9. You know, to see if one goes to eleven. That'd be pretty cool.

Five years of engineering school and I can't figure out why radios with volume controls don't use numbers but fridge coldness dials do. Is there something easier about keeping the fridge at 4 than adjusting it a little bit, then a bit more, until it gets just too cold and then you go back a tiny bit? I mean, isn't that what everybody ends up doing anyway, eventually hitting somewhere around 4 anyway?

So why the numbers?

Anyway, I've been watching the first season of Dead like me, and I've noticed that Mandy Patinkin's character, Rube, lives in apartment 41. There's three ways that I can take this. First is that it's mere coincidence. Behind door number two is the possibility that somebody at Showtime's making a slight jab at Fox's X-files, since Fox Mulder famously lived in apartment 42. Third (and finally) I could just be a colossal goober for having noticed.