The software company now peddles hardware that will sit in one of the millions of anonymous racks in some obscurely located server farm. In an effort to give the sales people “something easy to sell,” Pied Piper has morphed into a data-backup appliance. The episode’s title has military origins, as does “ skunkworks,” the term the Pied Piper gang use for the secret plan to defunkify the putrid smelling future of Richard’s compression engine. I bet that skunk’s pissed off yellow face looked a lot like Action Jack Barker’s at the end of “Meinertzhagen’s Haversack,” the season’s best episode so far. The skunk immediately gave her this dirty look, as if to say, “Lady, if I weren’t defunkified, you’d be in serious trouble!”
“Who the hell wants a yellow skunk?!” my H.R. The pet shop worker explained that, while the average skunk is black and white, skunks can also come in other colors. When she arrived, she was presented with a brightly colored animal in a cage. After calling several pet stores, she found a place that had one for sale. To wit: An old HR manager of mine was looking for a pet, and for some reason, she settled on a skunk.
This week’s episode of Silicon Valley reminded me that skunks deserve more respect than they get in the animal kingdom.
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