I am surprised that people are characterizing this as "taking" Gordon's money when it was invested, which means as long as Mutiny does well, he (and his family) get all the money back and more.

LOL at the thought of a series pushing two women as being talented in a STEM field and being tech visionaries going viral on reddit, let alone 4chan.

Are we not counting the time Joe set the first truckload of Cardiff computers on fire? The wiping the disk thing he did to Cam in S1? The holding the line at the $5 price raise during the initial Mutiny negotiations even though he was authorized to come down from that? Joe can be a massive dick when he wants to be,…

Poor crazy Gordon. But maybe he gets to save the day in the end, sort of — what was that thing he wrote, Solaris? Chekhov's Virus.

Something to do with the levels of hormones (estrogen, mostly?) while the mother is pregnant, too, right?

Speaking of sisters, all I could think in that scene is how much we need Kathryn Hahn to come in as a relative of Donna — sister? Cousin? (Preferably not as another redhead for Gordon to cheat with.)

It would have been weird for Joe to remind Cameron that he is bi in that scene, seeing as how she met his former lover, Simon (DB Woodside, certified Black Actor), last season, and, in fact, she flipped out thinking he was going to dump her and go back to Simon. I mean, how would that conversation go? There is no way…

I wish that conversation between Joe and Sara's father, with Sara wanting to be heard, was just an 80s thing, but that's still a thing. In fact, I just watched an episode of Suits where a character was upset because her father and her fiance were having a conversation "about me, without me", deciding what her future…

Sorry, you're right. It was higher in NJ, where I lived, which probably also affected the going rates for other jobs.

Dear Mr. Sbarge:
You seem smart and talented and thoughtful, so I would like to apologize for the fact that every time I have seen you (or Brian McNamara) on any screen I was looking at for the past 28 years, I would point and yell, "Billionaire Boy's Club!" at you. I will try to stop doing that.

Minimum wage back then was around $5.25, but anyone with computer skills could get a serious premium. I used some minimum wage jobs to learn how to use all the sought-after programs on PCs and Mac (word processing, spreadsheet, database, desktop pub, presentation) and parlayed that into doing temp office work, and…

I think, like Dell and Gateway, he'll be doing it by offering people customized PCs. Back then, you basically had to buy entirely off the rack — IBM or the clone maker decided what configuration you got, and you liked it or lumped it. IBM charged a premium, of course, for the name. You could get cheaper off the rack…

Not unprecedented, since Joe knows what it's like to get an orchestrated beat down in the course of business.

IIRC, his check from Cardiff was for around $850,000 (and since he bought that fancy sports car that got jacked last season, he must have been making decent money during the time he was still on staff there). He's probably burned through $100K or so between living expenses, paying back his in-laws, Donna throwing…

Dell was going, but going strong is stretching it — it was still just Mike in his dorm room in 1985 (he only got started in 1984).

Congrats, Gordon, on inventing Dell Computers!

Huh, I thought she was younger, but she is nearly my age, so it makes perfect sense that her crush was Andy Gibb. Mine, too. My best friend and I wore our Andy Gibb tshirts once a week, every week, during 7th grade, until his face just melted off. It was truly disturbing by that spring.

New from Mattel: Baby's First Butt Plug.

He also played Olivia Benson's ne'er do well half brother on SVU. I was kind of sad that they didn't have Mariska as his dead sister at the end.

Brian Blessed is a terrific actor, but both he and Fry are way, way too beefy for the role of the billionaire, upper crust Holmes, Sr. What about Ben Cross?