Eykelboom walked around doing the same thing, sucking in his belly, sticking out his chest, atop which stood the same long neck, slack face, flattop haircut.
My nephew, my sister had told me, wanted to keep things low-key, wanted to avoid the roomful of slack faces and well-meaning condolences should things not go as hoped.
The move comes at a time when Slack is facing new competition from Microsoft and Facebook, who have each launched their own rival products in recent weeks.
Weiss, who was previously at Foursquare, is working on probably one of the most complicated and important problems Slack might face: jumping from a massive set of chat rooms to something that operates functionally as a base of operations for an entire organization.
But Slack also faces increasing competition as time goes on, not only from the traditional companies looking to build more robust but simpler tools, but also from companies that have spent a lot of time working on collaboration tools and are now exploring communication.
Much of the slack from face-to-face professor time is taken up by advanced students who volunteer to tutor their peers, in exchange for prestige and warm fuzzy feelings.
Slack-jawed, round faced and wide eyed, he shot villains, subdued saloons full of ruffians and rescued damsels from various predicaments.
But the developed world at least is now still facing slack demand, with the possibility of a double dip in the coming months.
In a rarity, local health officials and frontline workers have faced suspension for slacking on the job.
A raft of new developments and conversions faced major financing troubles and slack - or halted - sales.
