…just now discovered that Bill Gates has bodyguards. Nothing new, folks.

Whenever I’ve seen Gates in public (the first time was circa 1988 at the Crowne Plaza), he’s always surrounded himself by an all-male perimeter crew. I always figured some or all of them were security guys dressed as ye smen and toadies. Whenever he had to walk through or past crowds of strangers, Gates kept an emotional/psychic distance from the civilians by talking nonstop to his dudes, making unanswered rants about the flaws in other companies’ technologies.