It was through that T1 line that the author became acquainted with Real World reject turned publishing mogul Dave Eggers, on whose Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency Hodgman's deranged authority figure would first begintotakeshape.
In the body shop, vehicles begintotakeshape as some of the plant's 850 robots, processing data scanned from each serial number, pluck large stamped pieces of steel from nearby conveyor belts and weld them together.