What is nuts? The fact that my name came up in a transvestite web site or that I work with a transgendered person?
That reminds me, when I was in Boston I was working with another guy from my company (we were both consultants at the same client). He asked me if I knew about this person. I had met "her" before and did my best impression of Austin Powers' "that's a man baby, yeah" without knowing her true nature. He said just google her name and you'll find out.
:lolBIG:
for anyone looking to do this... be sure to put " " around your name, for ex... "joe blow". some people may not know to do this. anyway...
... the most meaningful googled name search i ever did was about 7 years ago was for a girlfriend who's dad was MIA somewhere in the USA. we all just assumed he'd show up some time, but his name showed up in a las vegas obituary. she refused to believe it was him at first, but her mom read the googled hit and confirmed it was him. she cried so hard and for so long that night that she fell into a deep coma like sleep. I eventually fell off to sleep as well only to wake up with some scratching in the walls. i'm thinkin'... ok, a mouse. no big deal. it wakes me up again and again. around the third time it had switched walls and i'm now trying to visualize the inner framework of the house to see if a mouse could get from one spot to another like that. while i'm pondering all this and the g/f is in a deep deep sleep, suddenly a very large box in her closet falls from the top shelf and crashes to the ground.
mind you, we never had a mouse in the house before, never had any scratching in the walls from anything, and all boxes were tucked securely in the closet no where even close to an edge.
i was freaked out at that point as she STILL didn't wake up. to this day I attribute it to either her dad being there to say goodbye or she was emitting some strong ass energy from all the emotion she had inside of her from the news.
moral of the story? careful what you google for. there may be consequences from the "other side". lol
if this creeped you out at all. take a gander at the bazongas in my avatar. it should take the edge off.
... the most meaningful googled name search i ever did was about 7 years ago was for a girlfriend who's dad was MIA somewhere in the USA. we all just assumed he'd show up some time, but his name showed up in a las vegas obituary. she refused to believe it was him at first, but her mom read the googled hit and confirmed it was him. she cried so hard and for so long that night that she fell into a deep coma like sleep. I eventually fell off to sleep as well only to wake up with some scratching in the walls. i'm thinkin'... ok, a mouse. no big deal. it wakes me up again and again. around the third time it had switched walls and i'm now trying to visualize the inner framework of the house to see if a mouse could get from one spot to another like that. while i'm pondering all this and the g/f is in a deep deep sleep, suddenly a very large box in her closet falls from the top shelf and crashes to the ground.
mind you, we never had a mouse in the house before, never had any scratching in the walls from anything, and all boxes were tucked securely in the closet no where even close to an edge.
i was freaked out at that point as she STILL didn't wake up. to this day I attribute it to either her dad being there to say goodbye or she was emitting some strong ass energy from all the emotion she had inside of her from the news.
moral of the story? careful what you google for. there may be consequences from the "other side". lol
if this creeped you out at all. take a gander at the bazongas in my avatar. it should take the edge off.
I had a friend who had a shop near a cafe' where I used to go to eat. He would ask me to help him with his computer from time-to-time. Finally, he got Internet access.
The first thing he asked me was whether I could find people. I said yes. I know this is a google thread but people are talking about finding people here. I went out to switchboard.com and typed in the name of his son and asked the guy for the city his son lived in. When I typed that in and searched, sure enough his son's phone number showed up.
The guy wrote it down and told me that his son's mother and he went through a nasty divorce when his kid was young. His son's mother painted him out to be a really bad guy so the kid never contacted him. Once this guy had his son's phone number he called him up.
He explained to his son that he wasn't the bad guy his ex was painting him out to be so the son finally agreed to come to visit the old man. Well everyone in the cafe' knew the old man and told the son what a decent guy he was. The son was able to visit his dad several times before he passed away a few years later.
The first thing he asked me was whether I could find people. I said yes. I know this is a google thread but people are talking about finding people here. I went out to switchboard.com and typed in the name of his son and asked the guy for the city his son lived in. When I typed that in and searched, sure enough his son's phone number showed up.
The guy wrote it down and told me that his son's mother and he went through a nasty divorce when his kid was young. His son's mother painted him out to be a really bad guy so the kid never contacted him. Once this guy had his son's phone number he called him up.
He explained to his son that he wasn't the bad guy his ex was painting him out to be so the son finally agreed to come to visit the old man. Well everyone in the cafe' knew the old man and told the son what a decent guy he was. The son was able to visit his dad several times before he passed away a few years later.
It's a simple reminder that in the 21st century, anything attached to your full name that is even remotely public record or on the web will be Searchable.
Many younger folks are learning the hard way about posting "Funniest Party Videos" and crap on their Facebook and MySpace pages how that stuff can haunt you.
As many of you know, my primary profession is in drug policy education and reforming drug policy laws.
"My first/last name" + drugs
Pulls up not only quite a bit of my published works and related web links, it also pulls up a high ranking narcotics officer in London, UK with my same name.
heh
Many younger folks are learning the hard way about posting "Funniest Party Videos" and crap on their Facebook and MySpace pages how that stuff can haunt you.
As many of you know, my primary profession is in drug policy education and reforming drug policy laws.
"My first/last name" + drugs
Pulls up not only quite a bit of my published works and related web links, it also pulls up a high ranking narcotics officer in London, UK with my same name.
heh
