Day 3

Well, since the lawyer was coming in today we all had to wear a suit and tie and pick 4 people to represent our position on the patent application (we rejected it). Well, 2 of us wanted to do it just for the experience (I was 1 of the 2) and it was like pulling teeth to get the other 2. We were basically begging people to join us. Everybody's standard answer was "Well, I'll do it if nobody else wants to." Sissies.

Anyway, we got 4 and the attorney came in and he agreed with some of our arguments but disagreed with others. He was throwing around terms that of course none of us were familiar with (talk about deer in headlights). Well, turns out he wasn't an attorney at all but a USPTO employee. Haha! Big funny! Whatever, now we had an opportunity to learn even more from him.

After all that nonsense we found out that we needed to present what we had learned to all groups (8 of them) tomorrow morning -- we also found out that it didn't have to be dry. They wanted funny, a skit, a song, anything to liven it up. So of course I take the big pad of paper (think Win, Lose or Draw) and start storyboarding a funny little skit. What does everybody else start doing? Watching me. I mean come on!! Try thinking for once, take the lead on something. Whatever, I just keep drawing and everybody is saying how much they like it but I'm saying "Don't go with mine just because I started first, do a power point, something!" No doing, they all had no ambition all of a sudden. No matter, single me out, all the glory, all the blame -- I can handle that.

Then, once I was done and we picked out the people to play the parts (I'm the big mean scary lawyer) this little prick who was just out of school starts coming up with all these new ideas at the last minute which would have been fine if they had been any good. He wanted to put pirates and lightsabers and video games into the damn thing! Now don't get me wrong, If I heard there were a video game with lightsaber wielding pirates in it, I'm first in line. But these were all just random thoughts, a stream of consciousness fueled by the 136 pixie sticks I am sure he had for lunch because he wouldn't shut up. Dude, when people walk away from you whenever you start talking it's because they don't want to hear it. He has all the ambition in the world but ambition without one good idea, or the willingness to try and improve on a bad idea, or the balls to actually do it, is worthless!