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Ridiculous commute-related tech photos

Posted by The Technocrat | Filed under Geeky

Today I have a collection of commute-related photos for the technophiles, and a few tech-disasters…

Trailer that has logo of StumbleUpon:

I know technology isn’t for everyone, but upon completion of the new high-speed tolling lanes, the DOT put out this sign, which flashed:

“IDOT”, (something like ‘2 lanes open’) and then “Open Road Tolling (OTR)”

Nope, I didn’t type that incorrectly. It said OTR for about 4 days, likely to the amusement to millions of commuters. I started making up my own acronyms, like Open Toad Rolling… Sorry for the pic, but you get the idea. (this pic was after they fixed it, I wanted to show how giant the sign was though…)

I had to take a cab from Midway to O’Hare a while back, and the cab had this CarPutuer installed. I thought it was cool. The driver said it was normally set up for people to use the yellow pages online while the cab was driving around. Note I said normally. Instead, the machine would POST, Show the Windows 2000 splash screen, blue-screen and restart. Repeat this process for the entire 45-minute trip, in the dark, to O’Hare. I offered to fix it, but alas, no keyboard, and the touch-screen drivers weren’t loaded until the OS booted, which never happened. The flashing effect on my early-morning (~5-6AM) eyes was very Clockwork-Orange-ish.
Since the driver couldn’t turn it off, I wanted to take the opportunity to write ‘don’t let this happen to you’ on a bunch of my side-work cards and stuff them around the screen. Alas, all I had were my official work cards, and I didn’t want to give that info to a bunch of strangers… next time… (pic is blurry from combination of taxi suspension and highway pavement…)

The following are examples of how not to use tech, in this case, personalized plates. In fact, this should be considered abuse…

Hopping on the Leet-speek bandwagon: your future pridePersonalized

plates for your new SUV in Illinois: $190

Being branded as a ‘Roxr’ when leet-speek goes out of style 2 weeks later: priceless

…and the winner…

Personalized plates: IWAGB4

I can’t imagine why this “lady” would want to advertise ‘I Was A Guy Before’…

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