“There’s no difference between day and night down here,” he tells Richard. “I thought that way,” says the perfectly cast actor playing their tour guide, “until I saw them all.” Like any good network/infrastructure engineer, the guide mysteriously disappears at the most inopportune moment, leaving the team to fend for themselves in the quest to find one of the 16 stairwells out of this pit of doom.īefore he vanishes, the guide mentions that part of the Pied Piper package includes an engineer whose job is to physically sit in that room to monitor the boxes around the clock. “If you’ve seen one rack, you’ve seen them all,” Richard nonchalantly says of the similar-looking equipment that seems to stretch on for miles.
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If a programmer’s life is a movie by Werner Herzog ( Fitzcarraldo comes to mind at least once a day for me), a network admin’s life is as Kubrick-like as the huge room of servers Richard, Dinesh, and Gilfoyle find themselves in during this episode’s pre-credits sequence.
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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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