The man who never retruned
Sep. 22nd, 2006 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progI found a blog about the T: http://www.badtransit.com/ I have been learning a lot about the whole Charlie business through it. The RFID-bearing Charlie Cards sound cool and I look forward to seeing how they work, but... everything so far as been handled so short-sightedly that I kind of dread it too.
I also imagine I am not the first one to find irony in the fact that this new fare system is named after the tall tale of a man who was so screwed by a crappy mass-transit UI that he could not even figure out how to leave his subway car, and so never saw his home again. I thought the name choice was clever and charming at first but now it just reeks of unfortunate appropriateness.
I also imagine I am not the first one to find irony in the fact that this new fare system is named after the tall tale of a man who was so screwed by a crappy mass-transit UI that he could not even figure out how to leave his subway car, and so never saw his home again. I thought the name choice was clever and charming at first but now it just reeks of unfortunate appropriateness.
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Date: 2006-09-22 07:08 pm (UTC)The story of Charlie reminds me of an award-winning computer-controlled parking structure in Winnipeg that screwed up when I was leaving, so I gamed the exit by begging a new entry card off the guy about to drive in, resulting in an off-by-one error in the computer's car count. I'm pretty sure I left it in a state where if there is ever just one car left, it will never be allowed to leave...