Equator, equator, you said you'd meet me there

[austin_dern]

And then here's another round of curious potential work. A recruiter contacted me from an outfit that sells ``association management software''. If I understand this right, it's stuff so groups can send members information and schedule events and stuff more easily. Which, all right, I see the need for that. I'm not clear what the need for developers is; this seems to me like something that would become mature software pretty quickly. Like, yes, you'd need to patch things if lots of people started following New Social Media Site rather than the old. But the difference between ``let people sign up through Twitter'' and ``let people sign up through Yo!'' seems much less than the difference between ``nothing'' and ``let people sign up through Twitter''. (Also, remember Yo!? Or was that all a hoax from start to finish?)

Still, they're a fully remote outfit, and they're someone my brother knows about, so they at least pass the most basic bozo filter. And they laid out they're looking at a six-digit salary (eight digits, if you count cents). So I set for a (whimper) zoom meeting with them for Thursday, at least until the power fails in the snowstorm. We'll see what all happens.

Had a horrible thought, though. This is probably programming something to deal with scheduling repeating stuff across time zones.

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Here's a bit more with the carousel, from after our ride on it.

Told you it was after our ride. The bases of the horses we rode our first time around. And the plaques naming them, here Art on the left and Pedro on the right.

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The outer two horses are Art and Pedro. The horses are covered for the winter season, in something decorative but also a way of protecting the antiques from the mud and snow that would otherwise track in.

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The row of four horses are kiddie-size mounts that, I think, are set so they won't gallop. If there's anything you appreciate when you're a little kid, it's how everyone else is obviously having more things happen their ride than you are.

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Trivia: In 1971 Milton Schapp became the first Jewish person to be governor of Pennsylvania. Source: The Wreck of the Penn Central: The Real Story Behind the Largest Bankruptcy in American History, Joseph R Daughen, Peter Binzen.

Currently Reading: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals, Jeff Rovin. Oh yeah, hey, so there's a pet rabbit in Family Circus? Rovin says?

(Yes, it's a subject line loosely connected to the theme of the post instead of to my fear that society has died and just hasn't fallen over yet. Such can yet happen!)

Comments

[selki]

scheduling repeating stuff across time zones

Could be, but good luck with the interview!

I like the horse names and blankets.

[austin_dern]

Thank you!

Oh, I should have asked how much of the job was time zone stuff.