"Not really a rant so much as another one of those entries that aren't a rant at all.

There's something called the Big Apple Miata Club. It's a group of people who live in NYC and it's environs, and who own Mazda Miata's. My parents were in it for a while. It's kind of a funny thing, this community of people who are psyched to meet and talk with people who own the same car as them. Whenever I would be driving the Miata, pretty much every time I passed another person in the same car he/she would flash their headlights at me, and I at he/she (which is actually kind of cool in the Miata - it has those pop-up headlights, so it looks like the car is actually winking). I don't know why, it just seems to make sense when you're in the moment.

I bring it up because I'm noticing something similar with iPod owners. I've had at least two people (that aren't Ben Stein) stop me on the street to chat about our iPods (""What size? Mac or Windows? How are the kids?""). It's pretty strange."