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  1. Actual travel tip from the airport-security machine dictatorship: "Buy an inexpensive, plastic watch to wear while flying." 11:50 AM Nov 29th from web
  2. The replacement fence by the tracks in the Fort Totten kill zone is shiny as ever. 2:04 PM Nov 12th from txt
  3. Gave up and rode the rearmost Red Line car, aka Death Car. But I did glance back while boarding, in case a train was about to hit just then. 2:02 PM Nov 12th from txt
  4. Gov't I.D. has kid's middle name with a hyphen in it. Reservation-bot says hyphen is not a valid character in middle names. TSA hassle TK. 6:40 PM Nov 11th from web
  5. Robot security overlords demand that full name on plane reservation match full name on government-issued I.D. 6:37 PM Nov 11th from web
  6. A stray penny jammed the check-processing machine, so the person ahead of me in line has to write out a replacement check. 10:28 AM Nov 11th from txt
  7. Facebook's human-behavior-analysis bot believes that I do not write on my wife's Wall enough, so it suggests I need to "reconnect" to her. 5:18 PM Nov 2nd from web
  8. @katiebakes Well, Volvos were crypto-Mitsubishis for a while. That leads to the whole hot-hatch end of the problem (Audi A3? Mazda3?). 4:37 PM Oct 22nd from web
  9. So the old utilitarian form of the station wagon, in its dowdiness, became a niche luxury item: Audi, Mercedes, BMW. 3:22 PM Oct 22nd from web
  10. Insecure middle-class and would-be-middle-class people (i.e., everyone) bought macho Sport Utility Vehicles for baby-hauling. 3:16 PM Oct 22nd from web
  11. A: What happened to station wagons was a marketplace tragedy, born of non-U consumer pretentiousness. 3:12 PM Oct 22nd from web
  12. RRT @joemacleod666 RT @kingsthings: What ever happened to station wagons? 3:09 PM Oct 22nd from web
  13. If the law is being enforced by robot police to robot standards, might as well let the car drive itself. 7:01 PM Oct 11th from web
  14. Crawling along at 65 in the photo zone, being tailgated, I considered activating cruise control, for probably the first time ever. 6:57 PM Oct 11th from web
  15. Speed cameras are now up on I-95--in the construction zones, because who can argue against photo-enforcement where safety is so important? 6:55 PM Oct 11th from web
  16. Thanks to @theadreview for sharing an interest in nature in the machine world. In British translation ("skip" "tyres"). http://bit.ly/4FjW24 8:51 AM Sep 28th from web
  17. America loves cars. Asian tiger mosquitoes breed in car tires. Mosquitoes learn to love America! Itchy success story. http://bit.ly/4FjW24 8:47 AM Sep 28th from web
  18. Washington Post's delivery hotline bot claimed it was transferring to human operator, then hung up. Five tries. No dead-tree paper. 11:02 AM Sep 27th from web
  19. @theADReview 3 zones, spanning 9 hours. Yes, lovely. Though the American-to-British botwork auto-changed "entirely" to "entyrely." Machines! 1:22 PM Sep 23rd from web
  20. Used "track changes" for clarity on a three-time-zone, overnight edit. Changes stripped away by transmission/translation while I slept. 5:08 AM Sep 23rd from web