Ellison & Bastards that Build Small Docks
Today I’d like to introduce a new category here on Militant Geek. Most of the time the geeks that we talk about are regular folks that have been put in extraordinary circumstances - the YouTube guys, for example, seem like a couple of dorm buddies that happened to strike gold. Then there are those poor souls like Larry Ellison: a reincarnated Caligula trapped in the modern age. Curse the fates! In this ongoing series we’re going to do a public service of pointing out what a cruel, cruel place the world can be when you really are better than everyone else.
For example, if your business prowess enables an ego-whopping 454 foot yacht, dock builders should have the good sense to compensate, right? From the esteemed Valleywag:
the software mogul is building yet another new yacht; and not even Larry Ellison needs three floating pleasure palaces, particularly when one of them is as inconvenient as the Rising Sun, at 454 feet the second largest yacht in the world. “I think I made a mistake, making Rising Sun so big,” he told Forbes last year. “It is one and a half football fields long. You can’t dock that anywhere.” A fact which even Ellison’s salesmanship couldn’t obscure to potential buyers such as Lakshmi Mittal, the Indian steel magnate.
As every post in this series will we end with a rousing cry: POOR ELLISON!
