It's great to hear anecdotes from that era (presumably in MTV 5?); by the time I showed up in 1996, it was MPK 17[1] and those days (from which there were few s

It's great to hear anecdotes from that era (presumably in MTV 5?); by the time I showed up in 1996, it was MPK 17[1] and those days (from which there were few survivors, for the reasons you allude to) were the stuff of lore. It's not at all a surprise that Roger was in the middle of it all -- and it seems an apt and valuable life lesson to focus less on eradicating stupidity and more on suffocating it by building useful things, which Roger did for essentially his entire career... [1] Now Facebook Building 17 -- a succinct epitaph for Sun.