self-Googling - 10/22/02 10:29 PM
Re: self-Googling - 10/23/02 12:40 AM
Somehow I guessed this article was written by a Brit, even before I noticed the £ sign over to the side. Cute!
Self-Googling, however, makes us realise that it’s not intra-faith disputes and sexual desire that makes the world go round, but long-standing petty rivalries between C-list journalists, scientists and academics. This could be key in long-term projects such as world peace: instead of UN resolutions and birth control, perhaps all of humanity just needs to go away together for a paint-balling and team-building weekend in Cheshire. Then we could all write reports about it and put them on the Net, along with flattering pictures...
FWIW, I've googled wwftd.
Self-Googling, however, makes us realise that it’s not intra-faith disputes and sexual desire that makes the world go round, but long-standing petty rivalries between C-list journalists, scientists and academics. This could be key in long-term projects such as world peace: instead of UN resolutions and birth control, perhaps all of humanity just needs to go away together for a paint-balling and team-building weekend in Cheshire. Then we could all write reports about it and put them on the Net, along with flattering pictures...
FWIW, I've googled wwftd.
Re: self-Googling - 10/23/02 02:07 AM
Apparently I own a Financial Planning business, have starred in a couple of dodgy pornos, and have been involved with a few medical student functions. Well, at least one of those is true.
Re: self-Googling - 10/23/02 12:01 PM
There are so many varied Alex Williamses that we should have a club. It would be such fun. I picture every member introducing him or herself: "Hello, my name is Alex WIlliams..."
Here's my favorite self-google, an essay titled Don't Execute Alex Williams, http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/newab017/alexWilliams.html. Other interesting alter-egos include a Coast Guard captain, an artist, and a porn star.
Here's my favorite self-google, an essay titled Don't Execute Alex Williams, http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/newab017/alexWilliams.html. Other interesting alter-egos include a Coast Guard captain, an artist, and a porn star.
Re: self-Googling - 10/23/02 12:19 PM
i am older than i thought, there is news of my 80th birthday celebration, but that i have written 5 plays is nice news, but two husbands? Oliver and Phil?
i am inclined to think the only woman who is looking for a husband is one who never had one! Two isn't one too many, its two too many!
i am inclined to think the only woman who is looking for a husband is one who never had one! Two isn't one too many, its two too many!
(ahem) - 10/23/02 12:30 PM
I am inclined to think the only woman who is looking for a husband is one who never had one! Two isn't one too many, its two too many!
...delicately clearing throat...
...delicately clearing throat...
Re: self-Googling - 10/23/02 01:01 PM
'S'all right, Anna--depends on one's circs, I guess.
Yes, Alex, I would also prefer that you not be executed...
Yes, Alex, I would also prefer that you not be executed...
Re: (ahem) - 10/23/02 01:02 PM
You were looking for a husband? gee never thought that... mind you, there is nothing wrong with having a husband, or even aquiring a new one, its the idea of actually going out and looking for one that i don't understand!
husbands are like stray cats or dogs, they come into our lives, and we put up with them, and then learn to love them, . but go out and look for one?!?
husbands are like stray cats or dogs, they come into our lives, and we put up with them, and then learn to love them, . but go out and look for one?!?
Re: (ahem) - 10/23/02 01:06 PM
Not to mention what we do to the couch and the drapes...
Re: (ahem) - 10/23/02 01:14 PM
gee some folks are so, so sensitive! you'd think finding true love and happiness would mellow them, but no, not a chance...
Re: (ahem) - 10/23/02 01:20 PM
hehehe... 
Re: so sensitive - 10/23/02 01:22 PM
Y'all oughta hear us doing a crossword puzzle
a veritable onion - 10/23/02 01:44 PM
I'm a fifteen year old exchange student who plays the piano but never sings at school concerts, I play polo in Scotland and write travel articles for a dreadful online magazine based in America. I am enormously fat, I have a mullet and am married to a man named Kristopher. Wow, who knew my life was so filled with mundanity.
Not enough hours in the day - 10/24/02 12:13 AM
I am the Area Coordinator for Metals, I graduated from Champlain College and have been with a Vermont Law firm since 1999. An athlete competing in Hammer Throws and Discus in Missouri, I also run a Contracts Management Office. Closer to home (if I limit self-googling to site:au) I’m a housing management officer at Duntroon, a research student at Deakin Uni, a Turf Farm Distribution Co-ordinator, and Professional Development officer for the Australian Institute of Refrigeration Air-conditioning and Heating. In my spare time I’m a Community Librarian and I won a “Quest for Excellence” award for my design entitled Forces of Nature.
Kinda ironic that the article that started all this was about people wasting time self-googling.
Kinda ironic that the article that started all this was about people wasting time self-googling.
Re: Not enough hours in the day - 10/24/02 12:52 AM
Kinda ironic that the article that started all this was about people wasting time self-googling.
Yeah, and look who started it!
tsuwm, I double-dog dare ya to say somethin'!
Yeah, and look who started it!
tsuwm, I double-dog dare ya to say somethin'!
Re: say somethin' - 10/24/02 01:05 AM
musick claims altavista® is his search-engine of choice.
Re: searchin' - 10/24/02 01:15 AM
Re: self-Googling - 10/24/02 01:53 PM
I'm a professional angler and promoter.
Further I'm a photographer.
But most importantly, I'm a former christian rock star, but according to one web site, on "July 28, 1982, there was a small plane crash and went home to Jesus." I'm collecting my old CDs with plans of signing them and selling them at a prophet.
k
That says somethin' - 10/25/02 01:30 AM
... he also claims that tsuwm is his spokesperson of choice... but lemme go *verify that elsewhere.
Actually®, it holds sentimental worth and y'all know how much I value that!
Actually®, it holds sentimental worth and y'all know how much I value that!
Re: That says somethin' - 10/27/02 02:46 AM
Well ... there's only me out there. But I did track down the doings of some close and not-so-close relatives, so it was a worthwhile exercise anyway!
All alone in the world - 10/27/02 03:12 PM
Yup, there's only one me too, CK. Although some sort of gastroenterologist in Norway seems to have had my name as her *maiden* name - my Norwegian isn't quite up to the task of determining what that page is about!
Re: self-Googling - 10/28/02 04:59 PM
I have my own dance studio in Bridgeport, Michigan. I was interviewed regarding an artist's accomplishments. I co-authored a review of appellate law developments in Michigan. I am a member of the MSU President's Club.
Overall, quite boring. Except for the dance studio part.
Overall, quite boring. Except for the dance studio part.
Re: self-Googling - 10/28/02 05:41 PM
I share my name with a street address in Australia!
Though there appears to be only one human me.
Though there appears to be only one human me.
Re: self-Googling - 10/28/02 07:12 PM
...only one human me
Any canine yous?
Any canine yous?
Re: self-Googling - 10/28/02 08:30 PM
After a dogged search, sadly, no...
Re: self-Googling - 10/28/02 08:43 PM
That's ruff. Maybe you were barking up the wrong tree.
Re: it's a common enough me - 10/28/02 09:36 PM
I am adding the following to my resume forthwith:
- MD, Brigham Internal Medicine Associates, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
- MPA, management assistant with the City of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Department
- Committee Counsel, Family Law Subcommittee, Administrative Office of the Courts, San Francisco
- member, IEEE 802.1 balloting committee
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Music in tuba, music education and theory at Boise State University
(and webmaster for some obscure web page -- may want to omit this)
Awards
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- Science and Technology Award, Univ. of Rhode Island
- AIA, Young Architects Award
Papers
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"Underuse of Generic Drugs in the Elderly: Evidence from Medicaid and Other Drug Insurance Programs"
"A Preliminary Simulation of a Non-Steady State Process of Expansion of Urban Impact on the U.S. Countryside: An Example of Work in Spatial Models and Interactive Computer Graphics."
foreign languages
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- German (fluent)
- MD, Brigham Internal Medicine Associates, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
- MPA, management assistant with the City of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Department
- Committee Counsel, Family Law Subcommittee, Administrative Office of the Courts, San Francisco
- member, IEEE 802.1 balloting committee
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Music in tuba, music education and theory at Boise State University
(and webmaster for some obscure web page -- may want to omit this)
Awards
-------
- Science and Technology Award, Univ. of Rhode Island
- AIA, Young Architects Award
Papers
------
"Underuse of Generic Drugs in the Elderly: Evidence from Medicaid and Other Drug Insurance Programs"
"A Preliminary Simulation of a Non-Steady State Process of Expansion of Urban Impact on the U.S. Countryside: An Example of Work in Spatial Models and Interactive Computer Graphics."
foreign languages
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- German (fluent)
Ha! - 10/28/02 09:50 PM
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music in tuba
I knew it!
I knew it!
Re: Ha! - 10/29/02 01:11 AM
>>Visiting Assistant Professor of Music in tuba
I knew it!
Was that wind instruments in general, or tuba in particular, naunt?
I can certainly visualise nuncular playing the tuba. A certain sense of "everything's right in the world" indeed.
I knew it!
Was that wind instruments in general, or tuba in particular, naunt?
I can certainly visualise nuncular playing the tuba. A certain sense of "everything's right in the world" indeed.
Re: Ha! - 10/29/02 01:54 AM
>"everything's right in the world"
yes indeed, I bloviate with the best of 'em.
yes indeed, I bloviate with the best of 'em.
Re: Ha! - 10/29/02 02:24 AM
I bloviate with the best of 'em.
[hands pressed tightly over mouth e] I won't say it, I won't say it...
[hands pressed tightly over mouth e] I won't say it, I won't say it...
Re: Ha! - 10/29/02 11:07 AM
I bloviate with the best of 'em.
But do *you have a medal named after you?
I have one named after *me.
But do *you have a medal named after you?
I have one named after *me.
Re: Ha! - 10/29/02 11:33 AM
nuncular
ROTFLMAO!
ROTFLMAO!
Re: self-Googling - 11/02/02 08:01 PM
Did anyone notice that there's a website that does this for you? I just found it: http://www.googlism.com
Or is that what the article says? I can't access it . . .
Or is that what the article says? I can't access it . . .
Re: self-Googling - 11/04/02 04:46 AM
And as far as time wasting with google goes, we Aussies excel:
"Where Googlism.com is owned by an Australian company Domain Active, there we go, we saved you the hassle of doing a whois. "
Tee hee!
"Where Googlism.com is owned by an Australian company Domain Active, there we go, we saved you the hassle of doing a whois. "
Tee hee!
Re: Googlism - 11/04/02 01:14 PM
I can access it, but it doesn't produce anything. Maybe this is some sort of unfathomable Aussie humo(u)r?
Re: self-Googling - 11/04/02 08:17 PM
Any canine yous?
she said sheepishly
she said sheepishly
Re: self-Googling - 11/04/02 08:27 PM
I guess that's a pretty fair round up... as long as nobody's trying to pull the wool over my eyes. [face turning pun-shaped - e]
Re: self-Googling - 11/05/02 02:58 AM
Lapsus must be wool-gathering...
Re: self-Googling - 11/05/02 10:35 AM
Not much exciting if I google my everyday name. I find that I am a living descendent of Caspar Engels (who's he?), I graduated from Wagner High school Class of '66 (my I'm precocious!)and I'm mentioned in this e-mail header: Acid Jazz Archive: Fwd: Fwd: FW: Disney's Challenge (Microsoft's E-mail tracing program)
My own real self doesn't google up.
My own real self doesn't google up.
Re: self-Googling - 11/12/02 08:13 PM
well i finally did it...i self googled. I'm beside myself and as common as assholes.
2,580,000 sites, imagine if your name was something realy common....like...... John Smith
2,580,000 sites, imagine if your name was something realy common....like...... John Smith
Re: self-Googling - 11/12/02 08:17 PM
2,580,000 sites
44,600 for me. And if you discount those for the guy's got my name on backwards...
44,600 for me. And if you discount those for the guy's got my name on backwards...
Re: self-Googling - 11/12/02 08:44 PM
>2,580,000 sites
that sounds very high. how'd you do your google? if you just enter john smith without any quotes, you'll get hits on (for instance) "john anderson and carl smith". try the difference between that and "john smith", with the quotes. it's an order of magnitude...
that sounds very high. how'd you do your google? if you just enter john smith without any quotes, you'll get hits on (for instance) "john anderson and carl smith". try the difference between that and "john smith", with the quotes. it's an order of magnitude...
Re: self-Googling - 11/12/02 08:44 PM
I got nothin'... and I ain't talkin' 'musick' or 'Andy Panda' either.
Re: self-Googling - 11/12/02 10:06 PM
I check in at "about 17,800." I knew about the 1957 Dragnet episode, and I knew about the Josephine Tey character, and I knew about the Max Shulman book, and I knew the name was fairly common, but this is ridiculous !
Guess I'll have to stick with wofahulicodoc if I want to remain anonymous.
Guess I'll have to stick with wofahulicodoc if I want to remain anonymous.
Re: self-Googling - 11/13/02 12:14 AM
I've done this before, but thought it might be fun to do it again.. none are me, by the way.
Apparently, among other things, I'm:
a graduate student at Cornell University who works for Richard Rand
a cabin crew manager at Singapore Airlines
an eleven-year-old with a liking for Pokemon
a reviewer for Dunhill ("White Spot Review" and "Baby's Bottom Review")
a reference from the Obstetrics Section of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society on someone's resume
a Singaporean doctor
an author
someone who's going for a Ph.D.
a baby who was born one year ago exactly (Nov. 12, 2001)
someone involved with the Institute of Quarrying (Hong Kong Branch)
Just for fun, I did my screen name. All the ones that show up on Google are me. Hopefully, my brother or sister won't decide to search on my screen name. (Flamsterette_X or Flamsterette) If I do Flamster, however, I end up with a couple of results from Pokemon Village.. plus a couple more in French.
Oh, and I check in at "about 71,400" with my real name. With my screen names and variants thereof, it's very narrow.. maybe 14 at the most. I've also done Googlism before, as well. Very freaky.
"Did you eat another dictionary?" -- what an online friend said to me once
Apparently, among other things, I'm:
a graduate student at Cornell University who works for Richard Rand
a cabin crew manager at Singapore Airlines
an eleven-year-old with a liking for Pokemon
a reviewer for Dunhill ("White Spot Review" and "Baby's Bottom Review")
a reference from the Obstetrics Section of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society on someone's resume
a Singaporean doctor
an author
someone who's going for a Ph.D.
a baby who was born one year ago exactly (Nov. 12, 2001)
someone involved with the Institute of Quarrying (Hong Kong Branch)
Just for fun, I did my screen name. All the ones that show up on Google are me. Hopefully, my brother or sister won't decide to search on my screen name. (Flamsterette_X or Flamsterette) If I do Flamster, however, I end up with a couple of results from Pokemon Village.. plus a couple more in French.
Oh, and I check in at "about 71,400" with my real name. With my screen names and variants thereof, it's very narrow.. maybe 14 at the most. I've also done Googlism before, as well. Very freaky.
"Did you eat another dictionary?" -- what an online friend said to me once