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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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My car broke.

December 4th, 2002

My car broke.

I had no trouble riding the clutch through the nine-car accident traffic
today on 101. Minutes after escaping the jam, however, I found myself
unable to engage and disengage gears without a lot of force on the
stick. Bad!

Over at the local Honda
dealer,
a man named Sharkie (!) took me for a test drive in my car
to figure out what was wrong with the clutch.

Sharkie: I apologize, but I’m
just gonna have to do some stuff, to figure out what’s gone wrong. I
apologize in advance. [He revs the engine, and then … stops
revving it. Sharkie bursts out laughing.]

Dan: Uh … what happened?

Sharkie: Just now, I put it into third,
revved the engine, and dropped the clutch. And nothing
happened!

So, new clutch for 4-LAD.
Apparently, 101,002 miles on one clutch is pretty good. Yay, car!

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