90s Grunge
This Seattle band's frontman Eddie Vedder became an icon after their 1991 debut "Ten" featuring "Alive" and "Jeremy."
What is Pearl Jam?
This handheld power tool spins a bit to create holes and drive screws, and every homeowner should own one.
What is a drill?
This Russian scientist famously conditioned dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Matt towers over most people at this height, making him easy to spot in any crowd.
6'7"
Who was the first Entelect Staff Member to join the Native App Platform Team?
Before his 1994 death, Kurt Cobain fronted Nirvana and was married to this Hole frontwoman.
Who is Courtney Love?
When patching drywall, you apply this paste-like compound, let it dry, then sand it smooth.
What is joint compound (or spackle/mud)?
Maslow's hierarchy places this need at the very top of the pyramid, representing achieving one's full potential.
What is self-actualization?
Matt's bull terrier goes by this name, presumably ruling the Somerset West household with an iron paw.
Who is Lily?
Who in the team had a birthday yesterday?
Who is Tanya Govender?
This Seattle band's 1994 album "Superunknown" featured the hits "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman."
What is Soundgarden?
This plumbing fitting creates a water seal to prevent sewer gases from entering your home, shaped like a letter.
What is a P-trap?
This cognitive bias makes people overestimate their abilities - named after two researchers who studied incompetent people's confidence.
What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
When Matt isn't running ultramarathons, he creates generative music using Strudel and this Haskell-based live coding environment.
What is TidalCycles?
Name the cross platform desktop app development framework we decided to use but changed out minds about.
Tauri
Layne Staley fronted this band known for "Man in the Box" and "Rooster" before his death in 2002.
What is Alice in Chains?
When wiring a South African plug, the live wire is this colour, while neutral is blue.
What is brown?
In Milgram's obedience experiments, participants believed they were administering these to a "learner" in another room.
What are electric shocks?
Matt's son Thomas has competitive aspirations in this Valve FPS, potentially eyeing a move to Europe to pursue esports.
What is Counter-Strike?
What member of Exco used to to Matt's job?
Graham Lee (the CEO)
This 1995 supergroup featured Alice in Chains' Layne Staley, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, and Screaming Trees' Barrett Martin, releasing the album "Above."
What is Mad Season?
This Japanese hand saw cuts on the pull stroke rather than the push, giving finer control for joinery work.
What is a dozuki (or Japanese pull saw)?
This Swiss psychiatrist developed concepts of the collective unconscious and archetypes, breaking from Freud's theories.
Who is Carl Jung?
Matt's been building an agentic issue management tool named after this AI character from Dennis E. Taylor's Bobiverse series.
What is Guppi?
Name the two interns that were part of the Native App team in Feb 2023
Thumi and Bongani