Comments on: The Sage Does Not Exact His Due http://jim.casablog.com/2009/07/23/the-sage-does-not-exact-his-due/ All a man needs out of life is a place to sit ‘n’ spit in the fire. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:21:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim O'Malley http://jim.casablog.com/2009/07/23/the-sage-does-not-exact-his-due/comment-page-1/#comment-1167 Jim O'Malley Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:52:24 +0000 http://jim.casablog.com/?p=737#comment-1167 A-fucking-men! 4 of the suckers here in the primate house. Dude, procreation sex is just so much hotter - 'cause it's SO dangerous, dangerous for the environment, the bank account, peace and quiet, and sanity. It's like base jumping - except the splat lasts 22 or more years. You can't GET that kinda thrill off a bridge. :-) I hear ya on the discount work. I'm doing a free web project for someone right now, and he's being kinda nit picky. I'm like, dude, if I do the work for free my only consolation is creative control. No creative control, I'll lose interest. You want to be the boss? You gots ta pay. But did I say that? No. I'm a pussy. Maybe I'll just go passive aggressive on his ass and stop returning emails. Yeah, that's the ticket. I'll do that. A-fucking-men!

4 of the suckers here in the primate house. Dude, procreation sex is just so much hotter – ’cause it’s SO dangerous, dangerous for the environment, the bank account, peace and quiet, and sanity. It’s like base jumping – except the splat lasts 22 or more years. You can’t GET that kinda thrill off a bridge. :-)

I hear ya on the discount work.

I’m doing a free web project for someone right now, and he’s being kinda nit picky. I’m like, dude, if I do the work for free my only consolation is creative control. No creative control, I’ll lose interest. You want to be the boss? You gots ta pay.

But did I say that? No. I’m a pussy. Maybe I’ll just go passive aggressive on his ass and stop returning emails. Yeah, that’s the ticket. I’ll do that.

]]> By: Sigg3 http://jim.casablog.com/2009/07/23/the-sage-does-not-exact-his-due/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 Sigg3 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:41:43 +0000 http://jim.casablog.com/?p=737#comment-1166 I recently did a website for a friend, a professional site to his gf in the entertainment industry. High quality site in fully validated XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2, that renders correctly in all browsers I've tested it in (more than 20). Please note that I don't have time for this work so I stayed up nights and neglected my own gf to get it done. Turns out when I hand him the bill for the job he had expected it to be 10% of what I charged. That is not because I overcharged him. I took the regular price and cut it to one third. STILL he thinks it is too much. Say what? Fuck the motherfucker. I don't care about the cash, I care about mutual respect. So I met him _2 months later_ and he said right away that he had been avoiding me. Then we spent two hours going over how bad his situation was. Because he fucking gave his gf a credit card for several thousands which he can't pay back. And we all know what interest the banks are charging for this. He's not entirely sure if they are together or not. Long Freudian case. But he HAS to talk to me 'cause I'm the only one with access to the source, server and domain name so that the site can be updated. So I give him another discount on the discount, 'cause I'm a good friend and I want to help out. I still haven't received any money for all those hours I blew away on this project. And now he wants me to update again. *sigh* Sages are hairy old guys hanging around mountain tops wearing drags. In what way are they wiser than your average plumber or old village hag? Withdrawn as they are from what is essentially human life? You are a father of three* and not a forgetful old fool chasing the phantoms of academia. I spit on sages! Miracles only happen where people meet. *It's 3 right? I recently did a website for a friend, a professional site to his gf in the entertainment industry. High quality site in fully validated XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2, that renders correctly in all browsers I’ve tested it in (more than 20). Please note that I don’t have time for this work so I stayed up nights and neglected my own gf to get it done.

Turns out when I hand him the bill for the job he had expected it to be 10% of what I charged. That is not because I overcharged him. I took the regular price and cut it to one third. STILL he thinks it is too much. Say what? Fuck the motherfucker. I don’t care about the cash, I care about mutual respect.

So I met him _2 months later_ and he said right away that he had been avoiding me. Then we spent two hours going over how bad his situation was. Because he fucking gave his gf a credit card for several thousands which he can’t pay back. And we all know what interest the banks are charging for this. He’s not entirely sure if they are together or not. Long Freudian case.

But he HAS to talk to me ’cause I’m the only one with access to the source, server and domain name so that the site can be updated. So I give him another discount on the discount, ’cause I’m a good friend and I want to help out.

I still haven’t received any money for all those hours I blew away on this project. And now he wants me to update again. *sigh*

Sages are hairy old guys hanging around mountain tops wearing drags. In what way are they wiser than your average plumber or old village hag? Withdrawn as they are from what is essentially human life? You are a father of three* and not a forgetful old fool chasing the phantoms of academia. I spit on sages! Miracles only happen where people meet.

*It’s 3 right?

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