I Love Things Who Malfunction In Interesting Ways

Lately at work there has been this one elevator car that's been acting funny for a while. If you listen very carefully, she's often powering down and powering back up some of her motors and electronics randomly for no reason... As far...

Last night, I was buying beer and the thing that announces people entering or leaving the store went off -by herself-. I'm highly amused to think that maybe she does this at night when the store is locked and no-one else is around...

I named Her after Me.
She loves to act fragmented even after Her maintenance. Like mother, like machine.

This forum was an example of _herself_ just now...  The Coke machine post with the long 'Yyyyyyy....eeeeee.....sssss......!!!!!....!!!!' title was screwing up how the whole forum was displaying in the browser... Even after I...

The elevator just took me in the wrong direction, stopped, didn't open her doors, then took me to where she was supposed to.  I -don't think- I pressed the wrong direction button, but anything's possible I suppose...

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This morning a bus going to Tyson's Corner identified herself on every visible outside display as being route# 0 (zero).  This was with certainty, but I was running to catch a different one, and though I tried to take a pic from...

Woman apparently had a malfunctioning remote starter unit that she never used but was deciding to start anyway...

As this group has "grown" in the number of people who "say this", it has occurred to me that the title is ambiguous.   Though I love such stories in that they "fascinate me" (and that's probably why most members here have...

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A lot of animists are probably going to look at a person who loves interesting machine behaviors as someone who is capitalizing on the "distress" of machines and...

I am rather in love with this:

http://flickr.com/photos/mykreeve/2569193382/

This is partly also because the name June really turns me on sometimes... This is extremely beautiful when the clock is working (I paused the video to...

I have this talking alarm clock, and Last night when I activated her alarm, she spoke in a garbled voice to tell me the alarm was activated.  She's done this before, so I wasn't too panicked or anything.  Then this morning...

I have a digital camera I bought on eBay because the owner mentioned her unpredictable behavior in the auction listing...

She's a nice girl and never disappointed me :-) She does actually work as a camera and she actually has 'a...

My son went for the Pokemon craze big time; so naturally I had to learn to play the card game and let him hone his technique! Me? I love plush toys; beanie babies, cuddlies, that sort of thing, so a 16 inch cuddly Pikachu was my kind of...

_HOT DAMN_!

Not only did the coke machine give me a free coke this time, but I videorecorderd her doing so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes!  Barring the unforseen, this WILL be on YouTube tonight!

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A few years ago after leaving a hamfest (a type of electronics sale), I found a talking clock at a yardsale. I bought her cause I collect things who talk (if interested in such devices, there's an EP group for this, complete with links...

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I like her voice too :-)