Safe from the Losing Fight

My business partners and I were reviewing an NDA for a potential contract today. We were marveling at the dense prose used in it. I mean, the lawyers really earned their keep on this one. No one with a soul was going to understand it.

Anyway, that got us to thinking about NDA’s in general. I suggested that NDA’s should be written in a lighthearted poem format. My suggestion was:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Please work for us
But don’t tell anyone you knew

Its a good thing I’m an engineer.

The other guys tried, but they were even less successful than I was. I mean theirs didn’t even rhyme. psh. Whoever heard of a poem that didn’t rhyme?

After coming to the realization that we weren’t poets, we started talking about how much we should charge this sucker. I mean mark. I mean customer. Customer. Whatever.

Its always a delicate balance. If you charge too much, they assume you’re trying to rob them outright. But you charge too little, they assume you’re going to steal something on the way out. So you have aim for the price range that says “I’m probably not a thief.”

Regardless, I’m pretty excited about this. Its always good to have new suckers come in. I mean customers.

I got an IM from an acquaintance today. He works for Apple these days and was asking me if I was interested in a job. It would involve me moving back to California, but I would get to work for the Mothership.

I told him no, there’s only one reason why I’d move back to California at this point.

Although I wasn’t interested in the offer, its always nice to hear things like this. Its good to know someone’s keeping you in mind, and it definitely helps the ‘ol ego.

Mmmm. Listening to Ten Shekel Shirt right now. “Healer”. Good stuff. I’ve had the album for a while but just recently started listening to it frequently. I also like “Ocean” and “Unashamed Love”.

And as Pat Robertson would say “If you’re not listening to Ten Shekel Shirt right now, you’re going to Hell.”