Attorneys, bankers, and businessmen routinely take BART/MUNI/public transport to their offices in downtown SF just like their secretaries do, yet MUNI still stinks and BART literally stinks.
Of course he wants to get rid of the busses. Salesforce is located in San Francisco. If highly talented tech workers are forced to drive or take public transportation down to Mountain View, working at Salesforce starts to look like a very attractive option.
The Acura NSX had an aluminum body back when it was first introduced in 1990. I'm glad to see aluminum bodies now being used in more mainstream vehicles.
According to PAIR, your patent was allowed after you responded to the first non-final office action. So no you did not use the method set out in the article of wearing down the examiner by continually filing continuations to get a yes.
The premise of this article that patent attorneys wear down patent examiners through dragging on prosecution by continually responding to office action rejections is nonsense. In fact it's just the opposite. Patent examiners would love to see the same patent application over and over because they will already be familiar with the subject matter and will have a pretty good idea of the art in that field from having already examined the applications before. Plus the patent examiner is allotted extra time to examine the application each time an RCE or continuation is filed to extend prosecution. So seeing the same patent application over actually helps the examiner to more easily meet his production requirements.