Who cares? I do. I was fortunate enough to tour more than once in a bus driven by Bill Douglas. He was a kind, gentle, considerate man and a very conscientious driver. His buses were always immaculate and he would leave jars of candy for the crew to enjoy. Back in the days of the Silver Eagles, I remember him shifting the bus manually as he felt the rough automatic transmission disturbed his passengers sleep!

If there's an Expando Prevost in heaven, Bill's driving it.

Actually I did get the "nice guy" upgrade on an airline I rarely fly and have no status on. The poor gate agent was being beaten up by every passenger in line after some weather delays. I waited until last, confident that I was going to be bumped from the flight anyway, smiled at the agent & told him I genuinely empathized with his situation. He smiled, thanked me and handed over a first class boarding pass!

Over my many years in the air I've probably scored this type of perk 5 or 6 times.

I watched practice, qualifying & the race. The billboard (on the Lowes hairpin) was there for all 3. They may have complained but it was never taken down.

Hey Motorola let's move these deckchairs...

I trashed a pair of Sennheisers recently (totally my fault), sent them in for service without postage (I have teenagers), they sent me back a brand new set by return mail, no questions asked, no money requested.

Tell me that's not rare these days.

A blue one? Great I've been holding off for just this!

"Who buys mp3's anyway? Retards. You're paying full price for about 1/10 of the audio quality, best case"

Actually some retards are listening to CDs in car & portable players with anti-skip features not realizing that these systems re-sample the CD audio at low data rates. Then there's the horrendous error correction and filtering on your home machine...

Rip a CD to MP3 at 320KBs with Check-Sum on, probably the closest you'll get to the original unless you have a $5K player at the crib.

I'd say ho-humm too except that it's from Beyer who are one of the most respected & conservative professional audio manufacturers and hardly prone to hyperbole.

Bot Wars! Awesome.

Buy one in China where the ever-helpful vendors have already done the mod for you. Naturally they have a shelf of ah-hm "backup" discs for sale too.