Comments on: the name game

the name game

calwatch — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 23:04:43 -0800

Michelle Branch found by someone doing their taxes. No, it's not the pop singer. But have they ever found terrorist David Nelson? And will liberal radio host Michael Jackson ever get a job again?

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 00:46:09 -0800

Um...what is this post about...? I'm glad that the missing lady was found...and I've heard about the confusion over the many David Nelsons...but how does Jackson figure into this?

By: calwatch

calwatch — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 02:01:01 -0800

It's about people with the same name.

By: stuporJIX

stuporJIX — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 02:51:22 -0800

I don't know whether Michael Jackson is more in to good head or his "passion for 12- and 15-year-olds."

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:54:24 -0800

Ah! Thanks - if I had noticed the tag up top, I might have understood it sooner (sorry). FWIW, I am eclipsed in Googling due to a seller of wine, an author, a Stanford professor, and others who are more famous than me.

By: Jairus

Jairus — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:22:25 -0800

I am the only one of my kind, it seems. I guess that makes me the famous one.

By: beth

beth — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:18:52 -0800

I work at the IRS, and as part of my job I often have to try to look up people's social security numbers, using their names and zip codes as keys. You would be *amazed* at how many people share the same name, especially when you are dealing with common last names like Garcia. I'm continually surprised at the occasional non-conventional names that I run across that have over thirty pages of matches, for a single zip code. And at the IRS alone, there are three people with the same name as me. I just let lapse my main domain (I gave up the fight against spam), so someone else with my name can grab it and get all that spam. Whee.