It's about !@#!@#%! time, Benz...

...it's only taken you what... a decade since uber-rich people have been importing your Smart's from Canada and Europe because they like them so much to realize there might be a market for them in the US?

Gods, what arrogant, stupid, greedy pricks. At least they cancelled their original plan, to bastardize the Smart name in the US by planning originally to create an SUV with the badging to try to cash in on the rumbling buzz around the line.

Hell, right now there are places selling (not just advertising, actively selling and getting buyers) for the Smart's at well over double the actual raw price, $30k and up for a car that sells in Canada fully loaded for under $18k. And people have been practically begging on hands and knees for DC to import the Smart's ever since they were first released.

And the best part to me? They're rear-wheel drive. And they'll have a turbo-diesel model available. I smell french-fry-powered burnouts coming in a couple years. =^.^=

A couple days late punting this along...

...but love or hate Bush, Pink's song Hello, Mr. President is turning out to be remarkably good background music to program to. I can't even tell why, but for some reason that particular rendition it just right that I can 'fade it out' in my head and still enjoy the background stimulus without concentrating on 'understanding' the words.

So what am I working on? Well... I'm mostly pulling apart the Linux video-card drivers to sort numerous things out. What things? ( That's a little technical... and goes into why there's actually FIVE drivers you need to load for a given video card. )