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A reader just spotted a Segway in an NYC Starbucks and sent me a snapshot and for reasons, I can't fully explain, it seems kind of disturbing. Maybe it's because I think of the Segway as a West Coast phenomenon where the remaining gainfully employed Silicon Valley nerds zip around the Mission in their identical khakis and cobalt blue button-downs, balancing their soy lattes on the handlebars. [Or maybe I'm just using this post as an excuse to gratuitously bash San Francisco...Nah, that can't be itI don't need an excuse.]