Brian W. is befuddled. He got a strange gift from Comcast in the mail the other day. For a change, it wasn’t a picture of a naked Comcast tech, flabbily draped across a faux tiger skin rug, holding a heart-shaped box of candies before his genitals.

Yesterday, I was sent a package from a Comcast shipping center in Dallas. The only thing inside the envelope was an Apple iPod Shuffle. No note, or anything. Just an iPod shuffle.

Have you heard of anything going on that may have inspired this rare form of Comcast generosity?

No, we haven’t. And neither has Google, as far as we can tell. Does anyone have any ideas? Anyone else gotten one from Comcast? Let us know. It does seem to be a suspicious act of random generosity from an otherwise contemptible company.

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