Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.
And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.
A website of tiny ceramic frogs.
Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.
I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.
“This is your website?” I asked finally.
“Yep!”
“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.
“Yep!”
“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”
“I made those too,” he says, beaming.
And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.
“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”
It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team.
And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.
We are doomed as a country if it is this easy to cripple our infrastructure
Power is logistic
Block everything
Feels like a good time to remind y'all that when Chelsea Manning smuggled a CD with classified information out of a military base by hiding it in a Lady Gaga CD case.
Reminder that the hacker didn’t actually do anything to the pipeline itself. They shut down Colonial’s billing software, and the company halted service to the entire region rather than provide gas without being able to charge.
^^^^^ Yes read that last part.
Always, always question a company’s innocence in a situation like this. “Stupid woman sues McDonald’s because her coffee was hot” is their stance. Until you see the documentary Hot Coffee and learn McDonald’s knew they were serving coffee far in excess of normal coffee temperatures.
If a corporation appears innocent of wrong doing…history seems to show this isn’t true.
Okay, it’s not technically rosemary, I just found it in my old Likes and had to reblog it. I just get a lot of serotonin from Rose interacting with her mom before she was old enough for her feelings about their relationship to be more complicated.
