devoutsalsa 7 days ago

I once wrote a personal’s ad in SQL on Craigslist, back when they had that section. A DBA replied and asked if I wanted hawking. She had a Cooper’s hawk. I met her at a commercial park in a Saturday morning. She was driving a Honda CRV, the hawk was in the front passenger seat, and I hopped into the back seat.

She started driving and spotted some crows. The hawk saw them as well. Wearing a “don’t kill me either your claws” glove, she moved her hand to the hawk, who gleefully jumped on. She rolled down her window, stuck the hawk outside, and it was basically a drive by shooting with a bird bullet. This happened three times.

My most vivid memory of this was her ripping the crows apart into pieces and putting the then into a bucket, like it was sushi you’d order from KFC.

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speakfreely 7 days ago

I've reread this a few times and I still can't figure out if there's something wrong with me or something wrong with this post.

cs02rm0 7 days ago

I once wrote a personal’s ad in SQL on Craigslist, back when they had that section. A DBA replied and asked if I wanted hawking.

I feel I have to reply, but I have no idea what to say.

deadbabe 7 days ago

For starters he could post what the hell his SQL query was.

patrick41638265 7 days ago

Reading the first paragraph of this made me think how LLMs must feel when someone tries prompt injection on them

MarceliusK 7 days ago

This is one of those stories that just keeps escalating into "am I in a dream or a side quest?" territory... Also, "sushi you’d order from KFC" is going to haunt me

dmd 7 days ago

And you didn't get married!?

throwanem 7 days ago

Not OP, but I'm friends with crows. Imagine having to try to explain that...

srean 7 days ago

Very intelligent birds.

IAmBroom 7 days ago

"Baby, those body parts mean nothing to me! I love crows!"

Don't hate the player, baby.

throwanem 7 days ago

They have a much stronger sense of propriety than most humans. So really do most animals other than us and perhaps some close relatives. I'm not actually sure that says anything in our favor.

senkora 7 days ago

I bet she was a very good database administrator.

layer8 7 days ago

Probably the hawkish type.

JSR_FDED 7 days ago

I feel like I’ve just taken someone else’s medicine.

3cats-in-a-coat 7 days ago

And this, kids, is a Markov chain.

kstrauser 6 days ago

I know this person IRL, and I'm certain it's not.

3cats-in-a-coat 6 days ago

Prove it with SQL.

kstrauser 5 days ago

  DO $$
  BEGIN
      ASSERT (
          SELECT
              COUNT(1)
          FROM
              friends JOIN posters ON friends.id = posters.id
          WHERE
              posters.username = 'devoutsalsa'
      ) = 1,
      'He''s in there, I swear it!';
  END;
  $$;

_pktm_ 6 days ago

I would dearly love to see that ad; any chance you still have it or could more or less reconstruct it?

devoutsalsa 6 days ago

I was looking for it in my email, but I think it's long gone.

_pktm_ 3 days ago

Thanks for looking! It just sounded like the kind of clever I love.

tsss 7 days ago

That's really horrible. Crows can feel pain too, you know.

isatty 7 days ago

Whatever this is, write more.

qingcharles 7 days ago

This is peak HN.