under this spring sun
graceful dance of the spring breeze
as the daylight fades
Sunday Morning Haiku
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An Evening Haiku
the evening sunlight
drifting behind western trees
cherry blossoms fall
A friend of mine asked me why I hadn’t written, or posted, any haiku lately. My answer is pretty lame. She said she missed them, so I offer up this one.
Geekiness
I think it’s a high level of geekiness to know the difference between Linus from Peanuts, Linus Pauling, and Linus Torvalds. But that’s just me, I guess.
Do search algorithms have a sense of humor?
Yesterday I set up a YouTube livestream and, as part of that, needed to whip out a thumbnail. Canva is my go-to tool of choice for such work. As this is for a preschool choir, I searched templates for “youtube children choir”, and THIS shows up in the results:
I found this…fascinating…and absolutely hysterical. Maybe the global AI is just trying to brighten my day.
Some thoughts on the job search
I’ve spent most of the past year working part-time and doing some freelancing. It’s been fun! But I’m also seeking a permanent FTE role. This has been fascinating.
I have my resume out on LinkedIn, as well as a few other job boards. I was pretty selective, as I’m not even close to desperate. I’m looking for perfect, with a small delta. Results? I’ve had a few interviews with great teams and great companies. Few. Mostly, though, I’ve received spam, scams, and just misdirected communications. I’ve lost track of how many opportunities to sell insurance or pre-paid legal services. A few crypto scams. And then there are all the opportunities in New Jersey, California, Florida, and, today, Dallas. And these aren’t hybrid roles. They’re onsite (required). I’m in Seattle. Perhaps the recruiters need better search functionality. I don’t know.
It is somewhat frustrating, but, you know, first world problems.
Oppenheimer: The Movie
So, Dr. Oppenheimer has long been a scientific hero of mine. Besides his expertise in nuclear science, he had an amazing breadth and depth of knowledge that was truly breathtaking. Hence, how he could rattle off a quote from the Bhagavad Gita at the Trinity Detonation (“I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds”), which certainly isn’t standard reading for most of us in the West.
Thus, this film deeply interests me. This trailer, as trailers are wont to do, peaked my interest. I look forward to seeing reviews and all that. Though, perhaps, I seek it out regardless of the critics opinions.
What about you? Are you interested in this film?
On The Passing Of Gordon Lightfoot
Well, today was greeted with tough news: Gordon Lightfoot has passed away.
Lightfoot has been part of my pop-culture awareness as long as said awareness existed. For me, it was his gift of story-telling that held the most power. Songs such as The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald were part of my heart for, it seems, forever. I was pretty young when he was at his heyday, and his music seemed omnipresent.
I’m filled with sadness as another icon of my youth has died. Yet, I’m grateful that his music was such a rich part of my life.
It will not be hard to find his music over the next few days, especially his hits. So I feel compelled to feature a song that is lesser know, but one that I find delightful: Alberta Bound.
Alberta Bound seemed, to me, to be the theme song for the Alberta Winter Olympics of 1988. And something about that spoke deeply to me. So, I’m delighted to share something lesser known.
May we all find joy in his music and legacy. Godspeed, Gordon Lightfoot.
Ah, spammers and their lack of creativity
I got an invoice from “Microsoft”….sent from a gmail account? Somehow, I doubt that.
It’s like these folks aren’t even trying any more.
Anyway, be wise, be safe!
Thinking and Re-Thinking Domains
Now, though, as I’ve spent so much time becoming a web developer, and have built my own page over at GitHub, I think it would be great to have domain that ties in with that work. So, CarlSetzer.com has been a blog for ages. The whole thing started over at Blogger, then I ported the domain over the WordPress years ago. And it’s a WordPress site to this day. So, with those two things, I’m wondering what I should do regarding domains.
Should I create a new domain, say CarlSetzer.blog for this site and use CarlSetzer.com as a hand coded and tech/professionally focused site? I have a hundred business cards coming with CarlSetzer.com as the address, so it makes a lot of sense to shift the blog. Plus, it has solid SEO with my name.
So, what do you think? Change this here blog to CarlSetzer.blog and make CarlSetzer.com into more of a business/tech thing? Or register CarlSetzer.io or something like it for the tech-biz side of my life? I’m really looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Modern Life & Green M&Ms
Some one (God bless them) left a bag of Key Lime M&Ms in my office kitchen.
Well, for some reason, my brain went immediately to this meme:
My brain can be a strange place…
Update: I see the watermark on the image and dug for seconds on the Google. This Twitter account looks to be the originator of the mem: @jojofrmojerz.