Be careful about the structure of the equity share, too. There are plenty of times where the company gets bought, founders get rich, and the “commoner” employees get wiped out.

A little “if I could just go back and talk to 16-year-old me” advice that might apply to you too:

You’ll probably end up with a small, cheap, car. You’ll never have as nice a car as some guys, so don’t bother trying to compete. There will always be guys who have parents that bought them new BMWs or brand new pickup…

Yeah, it seems to have been going OK for the dealership owner, but I’m not sure the service and yard workers are seeing much, if any, of that settlement other than not losing their jobs when the dealership folded.

“You took the position, it’s your responsibility.”

9/11? A warning from the Simpsons!

For the Pope?

I’m sure my inauguration parade would go down more like this:

It really helps when you need camouflage to help blend into the 1950's.

Welcome aboard. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend going back and reading some of Tyler’s old stuff on the blog. There was a lot of factual reporting which covered things from a “He did X because he thinks Y and is beholden to group Z” and didn’t fall to the traditional Gawker “Anyone with an ‘-R’ after…

You agreed to terms, sure, but the lender agreed to terms too: many of which were a requirement of getting the special protections afforded students loans, such as the near-impossibility of shedding them in bankruptcy proceedings. If one of those terms is that the lender has to make available certain repayment plans,…

I have a feeling I know who will be buying that place...

Great example: Brown Hole, Wyoming. Renamed it Jackson Hole and Dick Cheney moved right in.

Star for this answer. Having worked on minor maintenance issues on a friend’s Jag, I have subsequently scratched out all Jags from my wish list. Beautiful cars with painfully bad engineering.

Not a Trump fan AT ALL, but can you imagine if the situation was reversed? Unsubstantiated reports about HRC = Bad. But unsubstantiated reports about Trump = Good Journalism?

I hope the reports are true, and ultimately verified, so that someone puts a legitimate eye on Trump and his cronies’ dealings with Russia,…

Don’t believe the hype from the ex-Gawker writers about how terrible Reddit is. They just don’t want you on there because most of their content is sourced from Reddit, and it makes them look like plagiarists.

I used to drive one of those offers they claimed didn’t exist: a “one-at-this-price” 1994 Geo Metro in M&M blue. It was am/fm radio-only, crank windows, manual transmission, steel wheels, and lacked even the plastic body molding strips on the outside of the doors, although it had a place where they should have been…

Maybe she can’t ticket him for reckless driving or failure to signal, so because she felt slighted, she pulled him in on the only charge she could. Anyone know if this is because the ABC officer only has jurisdiction over alcohol-ish (DWI) related infractions? 

Oh man I miss the pre-Sirius days of XM. I would have paid twice as much if I’d known the merger was going to be so crappy.

That pissed me off, too. When I read that, I thought: “I wonder if that enforcement lackey was a transfer from the San Francisco MTA.”

I once had an enforcement officer in SF try and tell me that street signs were “valid for several blocks” despite the very first section of the traffic code re: parking enforcement…

“Fun fact: unless they have a specific agreement, the cosplayer herself probably isn’t getting a cent either way.”