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I stashed my bike in the middle of the rack, jammed in between two others. No one can tell it's unlocked, right?

At home I can do basic housework, prepare meals, wander round for all sorts of things with the phone jammed between by head and my shoulder. It works well.

And when a piece gets jammed in the machine and is torn, it gets put in a "body bag" with an apologetic note.

Questions and answers are jammed into a narrow sliver of content area. On a 24" 1920x1200, with a browser window occupying just half that width, it looks crap.

The poison drive tray where every slot you jammed it into, it bent the backplane pins. That turned into a huge expensive disaster.

My childhood best friend once had to make an hour lobster-boat ride with a stick jammed into his throat just below the jaw bone. This experience put an end to his family's island living.

This is obviously a particularly easy rumor to spread when the networks are all jammed up with callers.

[1] Colavecchio's downfall came one day when he was playing a machine, and it jammed, eating his token. He simply moved to the next machine, and continued playing.

Or I'd build all the fire stations in a nice row, or police stations all in a ordered block of land, then get frustrated when they all jammed each other trying to get out and answer calls. My tactics from Red Alert isn't going to work here.

Very often, though, they were either jammed shut or stuffed full. The city probably could have just stopped collecting trash altogether to achieve the same result and save even more money.

Once while I was in Toronto, I walked into the event and it was so jammed pack that you couldn't walk from one side of the room to the other. The women were diverse and evenly distributed in age and ethnic background.

After a few days the magnet fell off thanks to it being stuck with the wrong glue and the motor ran past the end and jammed with power applied. Inevitably the armature caught fire after a couple of minutes [1] and set fire to the curtains.

So, they spoofed GPS and jammed the rest of the communications to make it land automatically. Given that there are test transmitters for GPS devices used when consumer devices are being created it's not a surprise that they managed to do this.

Principal Ruiz was so excited that he went out and took pictures of the parking lot, jammed with cars. Through some combination of new leadership, the threat of closure, and a renewed emphasis on academics, Premonts culture changed.'

It makes sense, in a chilling way: you can't rely on radio signals like GPS, because in a nuclear exchange your satellites are likely to be destroyed or jammed. You can't rely on surface features because in a nuclear apocalypse those might be changing too.

I feel genuinely uncomfortable reading that website; nothing stays still, the content is jammed in the corner and the scrolling physics have been messed with. It's somehow the epitome of claustrophobic design and interaction.

Then all of a sudden, some sort of critical mass hit one year and the roads became absolutely jammed to the point that my commute was 2-3 hours each way. I went through something like the 7 stages of grief, especially 6 or 7 months of intense "anger" then "bargaining" -- manifest as an endless trying of new routes.

We would rightly laugh at anyone who complained that their car wouldn't 'turn on' when they jammed their key into the gap between the ignition and the steering column, or because the car was out of fuel. We'd laugh if they complained that they can't see at night because they didn't turn the lights on, and needed reminders every time they drove at night to find the light switch.

, I'm not going to be impressed by some crappy Ruby on Rails jammed together with a bit of JS as a fancy editor for some DSL. Give us something with wow factor, not just another bland excuse of crap offering zero benefits over a command line, that'll end up lying dead in a Github repo in a few years. [Footnote: for anyone with cash interested in systems like these, feel free to get in touch.

Where parts of San Francisco are jammed with houses, every nook occupied, not unlike parts of Manhattan or Boston, there are large swaths of the Valley with nothing but parking lots. Any time I've asked a local why the densities aren't higher, why a ten story apartment building is such an anomaly, I get some vague grumbling about earthquakes.