The people that always want to touch mine are weird (even if flattering).  My wife would probably be happier if I trimmed a couple inches off, but luckily for me she also thinks beards are sexy!  Hooray for women like you!

There are tongs? Hah! I’ve never seen them used, even at high-end places. Fingers all the way. I’ve also never seen a bartender wash their hands after handling money/cards before building their next drink...

I know I’m late to the party, but I got you, fam...

Dammit, if only I weren’t flying to Germany for about the same-length trip during that exact date window!

Oh, I don’t know if it’s entirely random.

I also started with “Feet of Clay” (loaned to me by the kid across the hall in my dorm). Honestly, I don’t think it was a terrible place to start. It took me a moment to realize the Rincewind books were earlier in the chronology, and I don’t think I ever read any of them “in order” until the very last few releases.

“Small Gods” may actually be my favorite Discworld book.  It’s brilliant.

Well hell. A little annoyed I payed $300 for these a couple years ago.

Well hell. A little annoyed I payed $300 for these a couple years ago.

Certainly can circumvent the laws of physics as we know them—conservation of mass, specifically!

Ah, Lords of Acid, one of my 90s techno phase guilty pleasures. I remember this one...it’s okay.  Dirty Willie, however, will always be one of my all-time favorite songs.

I’ve seen several tweets from the (other) Baldwins calling Adam out for some extreme right-wing nonsense he’s been spouting recently, with the hashtag: #notRelated.  

In Stephen Root we trust.

They are hoping the stupid public will come marching into their doctors office and DEMAND the next great thing.

Accenture—formerly known as Anderson Consulting, the company that brought you the Enron debacle (the embarrassment of which prompted the name change).  Nothing ever changes...

Heh, you really wanna watch it drop, take a six-hour drive with three other passengers, and towing an 8' box trailer full of musical gear! Many frequent stops for gas are made when my band goes on the road....

I’m with you on the mileage. Around town is fine, but as soon as you try to open it up on the highway, you can pretty much see the needle dropping in real time!

I’ll give you the seats being uncomfortable, especially for multi-hour drives. I’m 6'4", and the only complaints I have about the fit is visibility. I have to have the seat so far back that the maaaaasssively-wide B pillar is literally right next to my head. I cannot look directly to my left, or I see seatbelt mount.…

Aye, there’s the rub. Keep it at lower highway speeds, and you’re fine. Push it to keep up with traffic, and much like the Veyron needed that extra 100 HP to push enough wind out of the way to make the last few MPH past the record, you can pretty much watch the gas needle dropping if you go over 75!

What are you talking about? I can fit nearly twice as much gear into my Element (rear seats out) as I can into my Xterra (only fold-down, sorta flat), and the lower, flat floor makes loading and unloading much easier. This is important when humping nearly 300 lbs of bass gear to and from gigs.

Eh, I have 125k on my 2007 Element, so have been trying to find a 2011 (the last year they were made) with decently low miles. Mine is still going strong, but maintenance is starting to include larger issues, so am thinking about the future. Unfortunately, the only low-mileage AWD ones I’ve located are selling for…