Ellison never amassed the mainstream cache that Gates, Cook, Zuckerberg, Musk, or Bezos amassed, though. While Oracle is well-recognized within the tech world, if you were to mention it to the average person on the street, they wouldn’t have any idea of what it is, or who runs the company. Meanwhile, everyone knows…

Also, Temple of the Dog was in 1990, and only recorded 1 album, so it fits neither the timeframe nor the convention.

These are actually officially licensed, and do in fact use the Gundam name and Project Unicorn logo on the shoes.

Yeah, the tone of this article makes it sound like Slack will become just a never-ending hellscape of unsolicited messages and harassment, and it’s actually deeply misrepresenting what’s actually happening. What Slack is really doing is enabling your admins to set up DM to approved outside vendors. So for instance, my…

While rambling and incoherent, it at least isn’t blatantly self-serving and scolding the way LeBron’s response was. So minor improvement?

My guess is that the portal world is a reference to Exiles, which was actually the book that Blink featured in most prominently. Exiles was a bunch of cast-offs from different multiverses hopping from one universe to the next, preventing catastrophes. Blink was one of the central protagonists of the series throughout…

Chuck Blazer was so cartoonishly corrupt, this works quite well. He was famous for having so much embezzled cash from FIFA that he had an apartment in Trump Tower just for his cats.

A union probably wouldn’t be able to prevent a layoff, but it would be able to make sure that everyone laid off has proper compensation, affordable benefits, and sufficient time to start looking for new opportunities.

Amy Fumero’s delivery of “I don’t give a hoot...” is just absolutely perfect.

I kind of feel like this undersells it. They didn’t buy Pittsburgh. They bought the Durham Bulls.

I think if Philly gets another Super Bowl ring on the back of a Nick Foles performance, yeah, he should be in the Hall of Fame. Why? Because 2 rings on superb performances by the backup is noteworthy. I’m not saying Nick Foles is the best quarterback, or even a great quarterback. I’m saying that performances like that…

So if you took, say, Boca Juniors and transplanted them to La Liga, they would similarly suffer. This doesn’t diminish the importance of them to their fans. It’s okay to be a fan of a lower division team.

Most definitely. It means a few things: 1) He listens to the people around him; and 2) he encourages them to feel comfortable sharing their ideas. This is good practice, no matter what industry you are in.

Yeah, unfortunately. When confronted with pics of a transgender man who passes as a cis man quite easily, and asking which bathroom he should use, many bathroom bill advocates came out with the “he should die” answer. Furthermore, the proposed changes in federal policy that would essentially erase transgender people…

Pete Carroll was once again foiled by his greatest foe: Pete Carroll.

Pitcher walk-up music is the best. The DJ will be getting a work-out.

Yeah, I introduced a co-worker of mine to MST3k, and he was like, “oh, so it’s like Cinema Sins?” I looked at him, and said, “No. There is a world of difference between the two. Cinema Sins just points out plot holes and/or willfully refuses to accept that there is a reasonable way for the movie to be the way it was,…

Part of it is that even as Hank barges in, he’s also severely concussed. That said, I loved the “Wait...what DO you think?” “I think you were huddled together for warmth...” “Okay, it’s not what you think.” exchange. Given that Dean’s got a nasty head wound, I wonder how much he’ll remember after he gets stitched up,…

Notes from an East King County native: there is no “Kirkland Mall.” The malls in greater King County are as follows:

Yeah, and the thing that seems most galling is that, because he left Korea before he finished high school, should he have been compelled to perform his military service, he would have been limited to essentially filling out paperwork and making copies, essentially being a glorified secretary, as he wouldn’t even be…