On an old car, you can pop the clutch

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On an old car, you can pop the clutch. If you can find fuel, it's fine post-EMP. New cars, any little electronic glitch and you've got useless junk on wheels. Old mech meters, accuracy and service will continue reliably because there's so little to go wrong and to interrupt service, you have to shut a valve manually. (Those pro meter readers can confirm or correct my armchair noodling.) Will tomorrow's meters have all the reliability of Windows, as it were? Can our service be controlled or interrupted by crack or glitch? Hint: it's already being done to utility COMPANIES. IS THE TRADEOFF WORTH IT, that's always the question.

Oh, I see: dbl-tap the shift to lock caps. Perfectly intuitive. (Recently graduated to iPhonish cell, can you tell?) I'm an old futurist. I loves me the digital age! But I've also learned, they are out to get us, and they are using the tools at their disposal to do it. We don't have to make it easier for them.

Sorry for the rant. Foil hat off. Back to normal mode: Hey, I was listening to Surrealistic Pillow yesterday. Am I just nostalgic or does that album really stand up? ...