I don’t know the right way to describe this aspect of me, but I like to cause trouble, to push boundaries, to tinker. When I play games, I like to understand what the developer had in mind, because I have been involved in game development—it’s interesting to me.

Every week or so, I get to play Grand Theft Auto IV (I don’t own a console), and in that game, every vehicle has a certain, fixed amount of damage it can take. Certain parts of the vehicles take more damage than others, certain ones less. Me and my friend Brandon have discovered that the front of the bus is nearly invulnerable.

Fluke or not, “death bus” is the perfect vehicle to go on a 1-3 star rampage through the city. As long as you can avoid people shooting at you or otherwise damaging your rear, you are effectively invincible.

As you might imagine, this makes for an amusing session.

The police can not stop you if you ram them: their own cars will explode before even come close to stopping Death Bus.

I recommend changing views and slowing the action down. This resulted in the most surreal Death Bus moment: with the Bossa Nova jazz station playing, Brandon drove the “America’s Next Top Hooker: It’s Back” Death Bus behind a cop who was walking through a park, spinning his baton. The view changed such that the bus looked like a shark off in the distance.

We have yet to destroy Death Bus by frontal collision. Please let me know if you have managed this.