30 Sep 2004
Oracle boss Ellison auditioned bathroom boulders

I was gonna put this in 'Humor', but it's really not funny: it's just, well, weird, amazing and completely outlandish. What must it be like to have so much money you can custom design a shower that contains a boulder?

It reminds me of an old quip my grandfather would make when he ran across something like this: "more money than sense".

Ellison eventually settled on a 30-ton "shower rock", after pretending to shower in front of several stony candidates for his master bathroom in Woodside, Ca. It won't be a stone alone, however: Ellison reportedly has 5,000 tons of Yuba River boulders on his 23-acre Woodside spread, which features a recreation of the Katsura Rikyu gardens in Kyoto.

(link) [The Register]

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