For many years, the official guidance on the trademark has explicitly been that WP was not the trademark and people should use that instead of WordPress. Tons and tons of people use WP in their businesses, domains, product names, etc.
Years ago, while working at a VC firm (in the office pool) my wife got to pick her own title. I convinced her briefly to go with business cards with the title: Floccinaucinihilipilificatrix
My career in tech has never suffered for not having a college degree.
I have lost jobs to people who had advanced degrees, but as far as I know I've never lost out on a job due to lack of a bachelor's.
When I'm hiring I care less about your degree than just about anything else. Having a degree definitely won't hurt you, but it's not nearly as much of a qualification in my industry as practical experience is.
That said, I've definitely taken college classes when they offered something I wanted to learn, and I would like to do more of that - not for the degree, but because learning stuff is cool.
I have done something very similar. Walked out of an interview (politely) due to how it was being conducted.
Employers forget that interviews are two-way, and that a talented potential employee is scoping you out to make a decision as well.
They are too often used to having all of the power in the negotiation, they completely don't get it when the time comes to interview someone who isn't desperate.
The ego blow is hard for them to take when you turn them down.
It's not just tablets, I get that junk on my other android and iOS devices (nook, phone, etc) all the time now.
For some reason the news sites seem to be the worst offenders.
It feels very much like the paywall thing that devastated so many newspaper sites a few years back. Despite having highly desirable content, they just don't get the internet (still).