Two Odd Names

My name’s Michael, which is probably the most cookie cutter name of the 2000s. My last name’s pronounced like the second-person pronoun. But why the heck is your online name “specificlanguage” and what the heck does it mean? I wish I could tell you more than what the truth really was: “I was on vacation and couldn’t think of anything else.”

While I did graduate in Computer Science in 2023 and try to be good at programming at times, I’ve tried (albeit relatively pathetically) to integrate it with several of my other interests, including running, baseball, international relations/political science, trains and transit, and video games. Some are easier to integrate into a computer science project than most of them.

I’ve worked in small firms that work in C# for the US Postal Service, to a startup-like team in Amazon, where I worked on AI integration with cloud platform sales representatives. I did the programming for the platform, not the selling, by the way. I’m creative and hopefully can provide you with unique perspectives on your project. Even if my tech stack doesn’t match yours, I’m always willing to learn. I’m always up for a challenge even I might not succeed all the time, but I’m willing to grow, build new things, and learn from mistakes all along way.

So what’s the profile picture from? I used to have a profile picture that was just a blueshifted version of New York from the Hudson, but I realized it needed to have some face, so as I was kind of knee-deep in Rhythm Heaven at the time, I used something called a Huebird.

Since then, someone’s called it a “strange animal eating bun”, so now it’s stuck. Sometimes I change it as the seasons go by, but I’ve been lazier as of late.