Hello to My New Readers

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Well, hello to all you newcomers.  Looks like the blog and my cousin Mark mentioning my article on Neil Armstrong got a lot of attention.  Oh, have I mentioned Mark is an awesome photographer and you should give him money?  OK, now I have.

Well for all you newcomers, this is the just-revised site of Steven Savage, geek literatus, raconteur of culture and technology, and Program Manager/nerd wrangler.  I decided to make it more interactive, added a blog, redid it a bit, etc.  It’s still under revision.

It ALSO gives me a chance to play with technology more – which is something I strongly advise doing.  It’s way, way too easy to loose touch with technology, and we have to make efforts to keep up with it usefully.

So thus the revised website.  It’s also why I put Android on an Eee PC.  It keeps me in touch with an all-too ephemeral, all-too taken for granted set of wonderful tools and inventions.

But as for me, I’ve had a long day so it’s time for one of my favorite snacks (low-fat peanut butter between two lightly heated corn tortillas) and a nice time with a book.

Stick around – I’ve got a lot more coming . . .

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

The Recruiting Nightmare #7 – The Best Frayed Plans

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So I’ve documented all the challenges of getting out a good job post, networking, sorting through resumes, and so forth.  It’s pretty heavy stuff, and if you don’t work in recruiting I hope you understand a little better what recruiters go through.

Once a recruiter gets out the right job posting, once they network, once they find the right person, eventually it’ll all work out right?  I mean you’ll find the right person and hire them?

Well, possibly.  Oh there’s the usual challenges – you may not be able to get to them in time, or there’s a competing offer, or whatever.  But eventually it’ll work out.

Maybe – until someone changes their mind.

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The Passing Of Neil Armstrong

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Neil Armstrong 1930-2012

Neil Armstrong was my childhood hero.  I wanted to be an astronaut as a child (who didn’t), but it was serious for me, and that led me into science and computers, which has been my calling to this day.  Neil was one of my inspirations because he walked on the Moon.

He was the first person to set foot on another world in human history.  He and two other brave, hearty, souls strapped into a giant pillar of fuel designed by intelligent men who had never done anything like this, and got shot into the void of space.  Then they managed to land on the surface of the Moon and walk on it.  Then, they came back.  He was the hero we remember the most out of a great deal of heroes, geniuses, planners, thinkers, and doers.

In today’s high-tech world of iPads and streaming video, of 3D printers and artificial joints, you also have to remember this was done in the 60’s.

He’s gone now.  He’s also immortal.

Next time you look up at the night sky you remember he made it up there.  Remember all the people with him, all the people who made the rocket and the lander and the suits, all of that effort and fear and inspiration and courage.

And because of that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

The, with the moon shining down on you, go back to your life.  Go on to do great things.  Go on and remember the hero we remember and the many heroes with him and behind him.

Find your own moon and your own walk upon it and never, ever quit.  Shoot yourself into the void between hope and result and face it with bravery.

Neil Armstrong was my first hero.  I think I made a pretty damn good choice of first heroes.

– Steven Savage