Linkedin threads can become quite odd. My thanks to Joseph Shair for helping me realize that I should start counting it as a social network after all. We’ll append a baby animal picture to the end in case a shark doesn’t count.
On an evening damp and dark,
I saw a creature in the park.
Thought it was SJ shark.
Turns out it was a snark.
* *
How it got there — I’m in the dark.
It enrolled in my class on a lark.
And it’s first question, hark:
“What can I do to make my mark?”
* *
Its bite was not as bad as its bark.
Ultimately discovered a strange charmed quark.
* *
He told of his trip on the ark,
about the problems when he’d disembark,
about his first job as a narc,
and other that that held a spark.
Russell has started three successful companies, one of which helped agencies of the federal government become very early adopters of open source software, long before that term was coined. His first project saved The American taxpayer 250 million dollars. In his work within federal agency, he was often called, “the arbiter of truth,” facilitating historically hostile groups and factions to effectively work together towards common goals
