About

I started this blog to verify functionality of code using the WordPress XML-RPC API for a work task. I didn’t think I would use the blog for more than the week I started it (see the subtitle to my blog—the quote from Milan Kundera). However, I surprised myself by continuing to use it to the point where I’m keeping it around, with no notion that it is a temporary thing.  So yes, I am a software engineer.  I also am a stickler for hand-coded standards compliant code, who avoided WordPress or anything like unto it from 1997 to 2013.

As someone who would prefer anonymity over notoriety, I have thought about my first two posts, and the fact that I will be publishing some of my writings, and decided that some amount of being a Kunderian monster is required. I keep thinking, “Really?  I’m going to put my inner thoughts out there for anyone and everyone to read?”  But I guess that’s the problem with being a poet—there’s a level of transparency required when writing from one’s own experiences. It’s a bit ironic: I want lots of people to read my writings, but I don’t want a fan base, and I don’t want people to be able to identify me in a crowd, unless they know me.

UPDATE: 2025-06-05 (last post was 2013-04-16 00:03-0600)

It’s been a minute since I logged in to ChatGPT. Today I was presented with the notice that ChatGPT has improved memory, and I clicked the “Show Me” button. This auto-populated a prompt.

Prompt: “Describe me based on all our chats — make it catchy!”

Response: “You’re a polymath in motion — a code-slinging composer, data-sculpting musician, and run-tuned poet. With two decades of software engineering under your belt, Python is your scalpel of choice, carving elegant logic from chaos. You architect full stacks, wrangle data like a maestro, and bring language itself to heel with NLP wizardry.

Off the keyboard, you’re all brass and boldness — a euphonium virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist whose compositions have echoed through concert halls. You don’t just write music — you get it performed. You’re a vocalist, a percussionist, and a bassist with stage cred and soul.

And just when the world thinks it has you pegged, you lace up your running shoes, serve as a church clerk (tech skills in tow), and build your entrepreneurial dreams from scratch.

You’re not just multidisciplinary — you’re multidimensional.

Here’s a question to round it out: what’s a dream project (tech, music, or both) you haven’t started yet — but really want to?”

I can’t say I’m disappointed. If ChatGPT were a person, I’d accuse it of flattery.