My basic, high-level, “I hope this inspires a conversation” resume has not been getting a lot of hits. I’m hopeful that’s just my not playing to some automated keyword filters or other algorithms… So today I’ve spent a good deal of time reviewing 20-30 years of all of my technical work and decomposing that into a YAML file. From there, I’ll produce a few different, narrowly focused resumes, assign them to different accounts with differently encoded email addresses, and see which if any get hits.

Anyway, it got me reminiscing. Short story?

The first time I ran a long job on one of the Crays, I didn’t know there was a prefix command to preempt the job being killed at thee hours. Everybody shrugged ~ “Just run it again.”

A year or two later, I saw that there was a collegiate math competition where one of the top awards included 3h of time on a Cray on some university network.

Me? I shrugged. :-)