five thousand shades of blue
Friday, October 26, 2001
It's a truly weird experience to set
Google to looking for your last name, especially if it's not a common one like Smith or Jones (something I think everyone should do).
Apparently I share my last name with: a plateau in the Caucasus Mountains; an oil pipeline (along with the name "Akstafa") in Azerbaijan; a renowned cellular biologist in Poland; a Reform Party activist in New Jersey; president of a police organization in New York; a player in the UK; a Czech javelin thrower (and several other athletes in Europe); a whole family who runs a Czech hotel; a software engineer in California (who, strangely enough, grew up close to me, but we're not related); and pages in Polish mentioning Jakub and Borys and Sylwie other people I have never heard of. And a woman in England who appears to have a very similar name to me (though it appears she acquired the combination though marriage).
Some of my past, er, works also turn up in the weirdest places, like a mention on a Swedish page about August Strindberg.
But not one single actual family member. :P
is
this just not enough…?
