Comments on: The Lipstick Joke

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:45:38 +0000

One of brothers lives there, but up on the hill, not down in the valley.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:29:19 +0000

My time in Sandy Eggo has been mainly in Del Mar….at the track.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:55:09 +0000

Screenplays are too intense for San Diego county…movies are a lot of work.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:19:44 +0000

“…planning a book, or was just weird. In SoCal both are possibilities?”

Oh, Bryan…you know in LoCal it’s not “planning a book”….it’s “working on a screenplay!”

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:02:11 +0000

This law firm was essentially class action law suits with big payouts. They bought all kinds of hardware and then decided after it arrived that they wanted a network and to include an office in another state through a modem connection.

I was involved with one application and refused to do anything else for them because of the sneaky manner in which I was roped into the job.

They were under the impression that computers were going to make up for their sloppy work habits and poor scheduling. They couldn’t keep office staff because of their attitudes, which may have served them well in the court room, but made office administration a mess.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:14:17 +0000

Q: Why don’t sharks eat lawyers? A: Professional courtesy.
Q: What do you call 5,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A: A start.

And so on. I think all lawyers collect them.

I’ve worked for one attorney on two occasions, and may soon do more work for him. He’s in international law. For a while, he was chair of the local Amnesty International chapter. Before that, for a while, he was an attorney for the local ACLU. Somewhere in there, he ran for State Rep. with a ‘D’ by his name, at a time when that virtually guaranteed a loss. He has been a pleasantly reasonable client, the sort for whom one is highly motivated to do one’s best work. I suppose when you’ve got the legal chops he’s got, you don’t feel threatened by anybody, so you don’t have to be mean except to adversaries.