To take our minds off the bridge collapse, here is a Luddite rant.

Last Thursday, SWMBO and I went on a small road trip. We stopped by Fin, Fur, & Feather in Ashland, Ohio and I managed the find 2 thousand primers (NO LIMITS) at a reasonable current price. We went looking for dinner and I got off the wrong exit, so we decided to have Steak & Shake for our meal. We went in and ALL orders were to be placed at the kiosk! (Human Free!) there were 4 touch screens, we tried using 3 of them, but they were unresponsive.

There were two human cooks that looked at me but made no semblance of recognition of the fact I existed. There were two customers waiting for their food to be prepared, that watched our dilemma. The stood there laughing at us and made no comment. So due to lack of useful humans we left and found food at the next fast-food restaurant.

Due to lack of intelligent life, "Steak And Shake" has lost a customer.

Are non-functioning automated service devices the wave of the future?

Ivan