Ross Nelson

@libexec.net

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he/him. I like hugs and high-fives. Half merman (the top part). Photographer 📸, .NET developer 💻, lover of public libraries 📚 👷‍♂️ Looking for work! 📍 Omaha, NE, USA 🔗 https://rnelson.omg.lol

One of 9 pages of a LinkedIn "Easy Apply" job application. It is a text field with space for 200 characters simply labeled "Photo". The field has been answered (by me) with "[😁]".
A photo of the galactic center of the Milky Way. A power pole and a tree sit in the foreground, with wires running to and from the pole.
Screenshot of the source code to Cassidoo20260720_CountBlinks. Source is available on the link in the message body.
Source code to Cassidoo20260713_SpiralGrid.cs (with some insignificant changes to make the image look better). Full source is available at the URL in the main message body.
Screenshot showing the source code to Cassidoo20260629_MeanBits.cs. It can be viewed via the link in the post itself.
A notice from Google that my Google One membership is now "Google AI Plus" and that Gemini (AI) usage is going credits-based.
An American Bison rolls around in the dirt.
A photo of Chimney Rock, a large mount-shaped rock with a thin spire at the top rising another many feet. Chimney Rock was used as a landmark for those traveling on the Oregon Trail.
Carhenge, an homage to Stonehenge made of old car bodies. All cars are painted matte gray, then some are painted by professional artists into various fun designs matching their individual styles.
Photo of a sunset at a lake. The sun is low on the horizon and a bright yellow surrounded by orange. Dramatic dark blue clouds fill the sky. Offset to the right of center is a simple wooden dock; the lake on the right side of the dock is all blue, while the left is in front of the setting sun and appears to be orange.
A colorful, abstract chalk drawing inside Ivanna Cone, an ice cream shop in Lincoln, NE's Haymarket District. On the top it says "IVANNA CONE!", with each character in a different color.
Source code to Cassidoo20260112_HungryBears. This can be found at https://github.com/rnelson/Cassidoo/blob/main/Cassidoo/Cassidoo20260112_HungryBears.cs.
A small portion of green aurora, shaped vaguely like a heart, sits in front of numerous stars. To the right is a large section of bright pink/red aurora.
My solution, Cassidoo20251110_Merge. The source is available at https://github.com/rnelson/Cassidoo/blob/main/Cassidoo/Cassidoo20251110_Merge.cs
Source code to Cassidoo20251020_SplitByWidths.cs. The code is available at https://github.com/rnelson/Cassidoo/blob/main/Cassidoo/Cassidoo20251020_SplitByWidths.cs
Screenshot showing the source code to Cassidoo20251013_CsvToList.cs. The file is linked to in the post.
A baby monkey grips tightly onto its mother as she roams around the habitat.
A colorful train carries passengers around the zoo, showing off various habitats along the way.
A bird sits on a tree branch screaming into the void, perhaps realizing that the work week begins tomorrow. That's probably not why it's screaming, but I don't know for certain.
People sit at round tables (holding up to 6) waiting for an event to start.
The very first item in the very first group is HEALTH, specifically "Vaccinated for measues, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diptheria, Hib, polio, pertussis, varicella, hepatitis B, influenza, pneumococcus pneumonia, rotavirus, hepatitis A, meningococcal, and COVID-19?"
The view of a torii from a zig zag boardway.
A river otter rests on a log in its habitat, happily eating some fish that it was provided.
A goose fountain statue sprays water from its mouth.
A klipspringer stares off to the right of the camera, watching the zoo visitors pass by.
A burrowing owl stands with its wings open to its side.
"How we care for our most vulnerable reveals what we believe about ourselves. I’m just one mother, and David is just one child. But this affects your neighbors. This affects you. At one point or another most of us will lose our independence, health, rationality and will. Eventually we will rely wholly on someone else to care for us. Dependence, weakness, need of others: These are features, not bugs, of the human experience."
Translucent jellyfish swim in a pool of water lit by blue lights.
A sea lion sits on a ledge with its mouth open to catch a thrown fish.
A model train engine, designed to look like a Union Pacific one, drives across a wooden bridge. It is pulling multiple train cars, but all that is visible is an out-of-focus teal colored car.
Two bees forage on a pink coneflower (echinacea).
A group of mongoose cuddle with each other in their habitat at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.
Blood pressure monitor showing a reading of 96/64 with a heart rate of 63 BPM.
Screenshot of Google showing results from Learn Microsoft for installing an update. All three of them show as having been posted 55 years ago (UNIX epoch).
An anthropomorphic red fire hydrant toy sits on a shelf in a store. It has large, happy eyes and a huge grin. Two hose connections are on its arm and nose.
A job application that, when "Omaha" is entered as the city, yells at me to "Please enter a valid answer."
Screenshot of weather radar covering eastern Colorado/Wyoming/New Mexico to eastern Minnesota/Iowa/Missouri. Much of the Nebraska/Kansas/Oklahoma area is covered in severe thunderstorm watches, which look suspiciously like male genitalia.
A small black and white dog looks at the camera from the back of a dog carrying backpack being worn by a woman at an event in a public park.
A kid dressed in a Ghostface (the killer from the Scream franchise) plays cornhole/bean bag toss/bags in a park. Their arm is in the air and a blue bean bag flies through the air a couple of feet in front of them.
Three dogs cuddle with each other in the corner of a pen.
A young boy with curly blonde hair, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, blue athletic shorts, white tube socks, and white sneakers, chases after bubbles in the air. The photo is taken as a profile from his right side. His face shows pure joy as he tries to capture and pop the bubbles.
Screenshot of some C# source code. Code is as follows: ``` using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis; using Cassidoo.Extensions; namespace Cassidoo; [SuppressMessage("ReSharper", "InconsistentNaming")] public static class Cassidoo20250428_Compress { // Tests: https://github.com/rnelson/Cassidoo/blob/main/Tests/Tests20250428.cs [SuppressMessage("ReSharper", "PossibleMultipleEnumeration")] public static IEnumerable<string> Compress(IEnumerable<string> chars) { foreach (var g in chars.Group()) { yield return g.First()!; if (g.Count() > 1) yield return g.Count().ToString(); } } } ```
Screenshot of a post by "staceysobelman" that says the following: Wore my new "but it was assigned Gulf of Mexico at birth" shirt to Costco today and was not disappointed. 💙🩵
End game screen on Diablo II: Resurrected. It reads "Congratulations! NegativeInterne will henceforth be known as Slayer NegativeInterne"
Two messages are shown. The first says "important update" in all caps. The second simply says "it's bedtime." Accompanying the second is a photo of a gray and white shih tzu passed out on a dog bed in a corner.
Screenshot of an image I took in 2009 of the same building, but lacking the fun green lighting.
Screenshot of HoTMetaL Pro 5.0 running in Windows 10. (I don't know where, but somewhere I acquired an actual real copy of it on CD.) It is displaying the source code for "Untitled1", a brand new page using the WebTV template.
null is an OpenBSD VM running unbound (recursive DNS server, to have a local one that asks external servers for data) and nsd (authoritative, providing my LAN name resolution) MICHAELANGELO is a Windows Server VM that runs the Windows DNS server serving in both those same roles, getting data from null on my zones and forwarding requests to null and external. krang is a Raspberry Pi running pi-hole. I had problems making pi-hole query the other two, but I realized I could go the other way and not reconfigure my DHCP to give out a different server, so yay! null and MICHAELANGELO both send their queries that they can't answer to pi-hole, which does its filtering, then asks an external server if needed. When I was trying to fix something yesterday, for some reason I made pi-hole hit null and MICHAELANGELO. So when my desktop wants to know what "en.wikipedia.org" is, it goes to null -> pi-hole -> null -> pi-hole -> null .. and eventually times out. Or MICHAELANGELO in place of null. Or a combination thereof. In either case, it was going in a big circle. Fix pi-hole to not do something stupid and the Wikipedia tab that I haven't been able to load for 2 days suddenly works.
The back of an Omaha city bus. When the photo was taken, the bus was very dirty due to winter roads and someone had used a clean finger to draw a smiley face and write "Have a great day!" on the back.
A screenshot of Diablo II: Resurrected showing the on screen map for the barracks (where the player currently is) as well as one for an entirely separate area.
A bearded fool realizes his mistake as Mario is in World 1-2 while the timer is at 20 minutes and 11 seconds.
Weather widget telling me that wind is expected today.
Weather forecast for today, tonight, and tomorrow. Today will be rainy and windy with a high of 58F, while tonight there is a blizzard warning with tomorrow dropping down to a high of 35F.
<bbq> the breakdown of society has caused me to revert to the editor I came into this world using, Emacs of course <rnelson> Just because the world is hurting you doesn't mean you need to also hurt you.
KM08 appearing to miss the point, describing it as "literally plug-and-socket mechanics".
Screen capture from an episode of Sliders used to display quality.
Screenshot of trumpgolftrack.com. The price of eggs has continued to rise, currently at $7.09/dozen. Gas is notably higher at $3.08/gallon than when he took office, though it's declined a little lately. But most notably, of his 22 days in office, he has spent 5 days golfing, or 22.73% of this presidency to date.
A one-star review with the following content: Despite the IHO listing a body of water named "Gulf of Mexico," I can't find it on Google Maps. It looks to be really large. This sort of oversight is unacceptable for such a widely used application from a major company.
A screenshot from Plex showing a number of episodes of Sliders season 4.
Episode details for Sliders S4E11, "California Reich". "The Sliders land on a world where California has been taken over by racists. Rembrandt is captured and placed in a prison camp used to turn non-whites into faceless slaves."