Webworks and Offsite Comments,
relating to the subject of

transport

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on: Ace of Spades • Thu 2014 May 29, 9:04am
by: mindful webworker - driving myself crazy

Big Brother grabbed a reporter's car in Stranger in a Strange Land. Hardly a new concern. Same techniques, different mode.

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Subjects: automation, transport

on: Ace of Spades • Thu 2014 May 22, 10:42pm
by: mindful webworker is driving home now

There are lines on the road?

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Subjects: transport

on: Ace of Spades • Sat 2014 May 10, 8:32am
by: mindful webworker's feet firmly on terra firma

I mean, hot air balloon ride, not die in a horrible disaster, of course.
Posted by: Gem

Whew! I was worried there for a minute.

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Subjects: fail, transport, wind

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 May 4, 5:40pm
by: mindful webworker is powerless

I'm confused. Is this an open thread or reserved for politics?

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Subjects: fail, infrastructure, transport

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 Apr 27, 11:14am
by: mindful webworker - Darwin Award multiple narrow escapee

» Darwin works in mysterious ways.....
» Posted by: Truck Monkey

A seemingly infinite multitude of ways, certainly.

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Subjects: Charles Darwin, fail, online communication, transport

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 Apr 20, 7:24am
by: mindful webworker hard bouled

"There were a couple of glitches during the approach, but they worked through them."

Well, it's not like it's rocket science or anything.

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Subjects: rocket science, space travel

on: Ace of Spades • Sat 2014 Apr 12, 11:08am
by: mindful webworker - home on the range

There's always...
♪ ♩
Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning

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Subjects: music, Steve Goodman, travel

on: Ace of Spades • Sat 2014 Apr 12, 10:33am
by: mindful webworker persona at home

The county is re-asphalting stretches of my 5-mile daily commute. It really is amazing, how swiftly the final top is applied. That's my travel area.

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Subjects: disease, Ray Bradbury, travel, virtual reality

on: Ace of Spades • Sat 2014 Apr 12, 9:37am
by: mindful webworker - homebody

I never get to travel anywhere anymore. Guess I won't move on to the next post, just fade out with this one.

Love is love and not f a d e

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Subjects: travel

on: Ace of Spades • Tue 2014 Apr 8, 10:25am
by: mindful webworker in Mylar headgear, now with propeller!

» ...Shooting down of flight 800 by Iran, which he [Clinton] deliberately covered up.... —D-Lamp

Oh, is that settled science?

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Subjects: Alex Jones, Bill Clinton, Iran, TWA 800

on: Ace of Spades • Mon 2014 Apr 7, 8:39am
by: mindful webworker taunting the shortstop

And I see mindful beat me to the flying car comparison.
—GnuBreed

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Subjects: drones, flying car

on: Ace of Spades • Mon 2014 Apr 7, 8:17am
by: mindful webworker line drive to third, but makes it to first

Drone Smashes Into Triathlete During Race

And you wonder why we can't have flying cars!

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Subjects: drones, flying car

on: Ace of Spades • Mon 2014 Mar 10, 9:52am
by: mindful webworker — unguided missives

Malay plane & missiles in the area, c/o Drudge

http://bit.ly/1fjaR0U

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Subjects: Malaysia Flight 370, missiles, transport, TWA 800

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 Mar 9, 9:10am
by: on the road with former Chicagoan mindful webworker

"It's almost like its a make work program for the unions, rather than making actual improvements." —Jen

No "almost" about it, tho.

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Subjects: infrastructure, planned obsolescence, transport, unions

on: Ace of Spades • Sat 2014 Mar 8, 8:09am
by: mindful webworker — drive responsibly!

Plus it's public land. Hell half the time they put one out for a dog. Enough already
Posted by: NativeNH

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Subjects: grief, infrastructure, transport

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 Mar 2, 9:17am
by: mindful webworker - Okie Doke

It's impossible to say when is best to visit beautiful Oklahoma, but it's probably best to avoid August. Unless you plan to visit some of our many lakes.

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Subjects: Oklahoma, travel

on: Ace of Spades • Fri 2014 Jan 31, 7:12am
by: mindful webworker - persona au gratin

A prime example of why you can not turn a third world shithole into a modern nation by helping them.
http://tinyurl.com/pv8pjwx

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Subjects: Afghanistan, transport

on: Ace of Spades • Wed 2014 Jan 29, 11:17am
by: webworker

Anna Puma still here? GLAD YOU'RE ALIVE!

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Subjects: accident, transport

First Time You Use It (FTYUI)

Also, to all writers, unless you're using USA or BHO, specifiy the First Time You Use It (FTYUI). How many acronyms do you think folks have in their heads - even us civilians?

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Subjects: submarine, warfare

on: Ace of Spades • Wed 2014 Jan 22, 12:31am
by: webworker

What kind of world is this?

The kind where I go on Drudge and read

Motorist with man lodged in windshield drives home, locks car and goes inside...

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Subjects: alcohol, transport

on: Ace of Spades • Sat 2014 Jan 18, 10:55am
by: webworker - is probably not running for Coburn's Senate seat

When the wheelbase, size and horsepower stays about the same, and you cut the weight, a vehicle tends to want to scamper about in handling when road conditions are less than ideal, like when it rai

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Subjects: transport

Light at the End

That moment when you realize.... Another old joke illustrated by the old joker.

Illustration added on 2014 Jan 16
Subjects: transport, hope, dark humor

Near Aspen 1973

Just not this fellow's moment!

Cartoon added on 2014 Jan 8
Subjects: transport, isolation, police

on: Ace of Spades • Wed 2014 Jan 1, 10:57am
by: mindful webworker - just another day

don't why I found it so funny..., but it is:
http://duckcallcarhorns.com/sounds/duck.mp3
Posted by: Mike Hammer

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Subjects: ducks, humor, transport

Folding paratrooper bikes

I'm... actually more intrigued by what she's riding than by her, lovely as she is. I mean.. what ARE that contraption?

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Subjects: transport

on: Ace of Spades • Sat 2013 Dec 28, 9:57pm
by: mindful webworker - something clever goes here

Hi, Everybobby!

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Subjects: transport

on: Ace of Spades • Mon 2013 Dec 23, 8:32am
by: mindful webworker

"Meeeerrryyy Christmasssss Ho-Ho-Ho !" -Santa

And a new bicycle.

A transistor radio.

Peace on earth.

My folks to not be divorced.

My life to do over...

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Subjects: bicycle, Christmas, Life

Fruit Surprise

An unexpected journey.

Photo by Others, Remix added on 2013 Dec 20
Subjects: space travel, banana, absurdity

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2013 Dec 15, 8:49am
by: Sparky Treefires, Santa's mindful webworker

Mr & Mrs HoboJerky vs the Deer.

Like a plane crash, any landing you can walk away from is a successful one.

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Subjects: deer, transport

on: Ace of Spades • Wed 2013 Dec 11, 8:56am
by: Clove Candycigars, the mindful webworker

So, visiting Evanston in '73, I take the El down to the N side to visit a girl I'd met at college... and some of her family... and the guy she was living with... awkward^3.

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Subjects: alcohol, Chicago, family, transport