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When I was a recruiter learning to code, I posted a personal's ad written in SQL on Craigslist. Ended up going out on a date with a DBA :) She was a falconer,

When I was a recruiter learning to code, I posted a personal's ad written in SQL on Craigslist. Ended up going out on a date with a DBA :) She was a falconer, and we took her hawk out to hunt crows.

hekker 10y ago
Strong story.
qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Wow. It is hard to do that in a way that doesn't come off like... this thing.
- amorphid 10y ago
  In grad school I took a class on creativity from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi[1]. He described a creative idea as something that stands apart from other ideas in the same basket. Think of a large pile of plain ol' red bricks. Now show that pile ask 100 people who know nothing about bricks the question "what can yo do with this pile of bricks?" If 99 people say "build a worker computer by <brick-to-computer-process>", and 1 person says "build a house", then "build a house" is the most creative answer in that sample. Writing a SQL ad that was basically just a simple query using SELECT, FROM, WHERE. If 100 SQL writers wrote an ad, I don't think mine would have been all that creative, using the definition mentioned above. But as the only SQL-flavored ad in the personals section, it stood out as creative :) [1] https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-Psychology-Discovery-Invention/dp/0062283251 https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-Psychology-Discovery-...
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    Yes. However, there is a difference between creative and good: Most recruiter emails don't look like what OP got. But that doesn't make that one good. Yours seems to have been good.
Mathnerd314 10y ago
Clearly you shared some common interests. Was there a second date?
- amorphid 10y ago
  No, we were pretty different. But I did introduce her to my former boss. Don't know if they hit it off or not.
andrewvijay 10y ago
Heckin wow
GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
What did those crows ever do to you.
- bryanrasmussen 10y ago
  Probably not willingly sacrifice themselves to the falcon I would guess.

When I was a recruiter learning to code, I posted a personal's ad written in SQL on Craigslist. Ended up going out on a date with a DBA :) She was a falconer, and we took her hawk out to hunt crows.

hekker 10y ago

Strong story.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago

Wow. It is hard to do that in a way that doesn't come off like... this thing.

amorphid 10y ago
In grad school I took a class on creativity from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi[1]. He described a creative idea as something that stands apart from other ideas in the same basket. Think of a large pile of plain ol' red bricks. Now show that pile ask 100 people who know nothing about bricks the question "what can yo do with this pile of bricks?" If 99 people say "build a worker computer by <brick-to-computer-process>", and 1 person says "build a house", then "build a house" is the most creative answer in that sample. Writing a SQL ad that was basically just a simple query using SELECT, FROM, WHERE. If 100 SQL writers wrote an ad, I don't think mine would have been all that creative, using the definition mentioned above. But as the only SQL-flavored ad in the personals section, it stood out as creative :) [1] https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-Psychology-Discovery-Invention/dp/0062283251 https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-Psychology-Discovery-...
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Yes. However, there is a difference between creative and good: Most recruiter emails don't look like what OP got. But that doesn't make that one good. Yours seems to have been good.

Mathnerd314 10y ago

Clearly you shared some common interests. Was there a second date?

amorphid 10y ago
No, we were pretty different. But I did introduce her to my former boss. Don't know if they hit it off or not.

andrewvijay 10y ago

Heckin wow

GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago

What did those crows ever do to you.

bryanrasmussen 10y ago
Probably not willingly sacrifice themselves to the falcon I would guess.