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LAZY HARP SEAL HAS NO JOB.

Subway systems across the world, independent of each other, have developed common aspects. I'm afraid skynet may come from the trains.

Teeny tiny guerilla libraries!

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This is a thing that happens:

I sit down at a slot machine. I play five dollars. I lose five dollars, slowly but inevitably, while Mum watches and mocks me. Finally, Mum says "Move over one seat and stop pushing buttons. Push that button there. Just that button."

I move over a seat, feed a dollar into the machine, and push the button.

Ding ding ding. I now have five dollars.

"Okay now push that button there."

Ding ding ding. I now have nine dollars and forty cents.

"And now that one there."

Ding ding ding.

This is why: a) I now have $15 when I started with $6 and b) I believe, despite being a reasonably rational person, that my mother is magic. Shit like this happens to her all the time.

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Ahhh, fake Venice!