Is anyone more famous under their nickname? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

KnifeMissile · 11-09-2003, 01:00 AM

Doing a google search for my name reveals absolutely nothing about me. Unfortunately, I have one of those common names (like John Smith) so I do get a lot of false positives.

On the other hand, I can find myself under my nickname and under different contexts, as well. I suppose this shouldn't be surprising to me considering how I'm actually credited as my nickname for a product that I help engineer. One of these links even has my photo!

It makes me wonder how I would have ranked among the other John Smiths... So, is anyone else more famous under their nickname?

phredgreen · 11-09-2003, 08:46 AM

strangely enough, when i google phredgreen, i only come up with the few marks that i've left on the web. sorry about that. apparently i'm the only noteworthy phredgreen out there.

bermuDa · 11-09-2003, 12:30 PM

when i google bermuDa or fuxor (my other forum name from a tech site) I get so many results i couldn't sift through them.

bermudatriad, however; comes up with a handful of results and they're all related to me. I even found my old old spaceports website, lol.

Peryn · 11-09-2003, 07:25 PM

Turns out Peryn was a character in LOTR (a minor one i guess) that i had never noticed before. Turned out to be a girl too :/ Kinda odd though, i just put some letters together a few years ago and made it up....or so i thought. I have never encountered anyone with this name before, but apparently it is somewhat common. Heh, found a link to me on the TFP through google. That was wierd. All in all thouhg, i pretty much cant find myself on the web. Cant find my real name on their either. Bah...

drawerfixer · 11-09-2003, 07:46 PM

This was actually pretty interesting.

I thought I'd be getting a lot of woodworkers/building websites, but everything Google returned on 'drawerfixer' was about me!

They mostly had to do with a gaming order that I'm in, but TFP and tortoises were in there also.

My other online alias, pacopicasso, returned a lot of my gaming order posts also.

My real name returns one page from the local newspaper buried deep on page four or five.

bundy · 11-09-2003, 08:51 PM

yes, my real name is Russell Crowe... oh, dammit, i just let everyone in on my secret...

j/k

seriously, no, i´m only famous in my own lunchbox.

there are a few famous bundys out there... like Al and Ted... but i´m not even named after them... so i can´t cash in their fame.

onetime2 · 11-10-2003, 05:13 AM

Nope. I get a few hits on my alter ego but I get more on my real name. I spent a fair amount of time writing articles & books and giving presentations about the economy and industry in another life.

There's apparently a musician with my real name who gets considerably more press than me. It will be a turning point when the hits associated with me surpass the ones associated with him.

Nefir · 11-10-2003, 06:42 AM

Yes, I get a few hits for "Nefir Nefarious", from way back in the days I actually participated in the MMORPG and online gaming communities (ie: released some maps for RUNE, which people seemed to enjoy). Thats about as relevant as Google gets.

On the scary side, I've just realized there's an Alladdin character named just "Nefir", and a whole boatload of strange and disturbing websites, may of them possibly from another planet... Oh the horror.

My real name generates nothing useful aside from some standings in a rollerblading event I took part in a couple of times.

ratbastid · 11-10-2003, 09:01 AM

Evidently there's another ratbastid who's a member of a LAN gaming crew in Rhode Island. He gets a bigger googleshare than I do for my name.

I show up as Hit #7, though, on the TFP Folding@Home team stats page! And many contributions to everything2.com over the next couple pages, which was my Web Crack long before I found TFP.

My real name is surprisingly common--enough so that I get emails every now and then asking if I was in the service in certain years or graduated from certain univerities, usually years before I was born. I didn't bother to google me--I presume I'll get pretty ersatz results.

Funnily enough, lurkette's IRL name turned up a porn star who spelled her name exactly the same (slightly unusual) way. Funny! That's my little porn star!

quadro2000 · 11-10-2003, 09:53 AM

My nickname turns up a bunch of links but none of them have anything to do with me. Whew.

Stiltzkin · 11-10-2003, 04:59 PM

"Stiltzkin" turns up a bunch of Final Fantasy related results, but nothing relating to me. I actually only started using this nick on TFP. Before TFP, I used some other nickname. That one turns up a bunch of sites in Spanish :-D

Spinach_Indeed · 11-10-2003, 05:03 PM

When I search for Spinach Indeed I just get back a bunch of recipes.

When I search Spinach_Indeed however, a couple TFP links and some other stuff I've posted in. Neato.

Mephisto2 · 11-10-2003, 06:04 PM

Mephisto (or Mephistocles) certainly brings up more hits than my unusual Irish name.

The only hits I get on my real name are some work related articles in some IT publications and an annoying post I made to a history bulletin board about 10 years ago. I wish I could remove that!

Mr Mephisto

majik_6 · 11-10-2003, 11:21 PM

Under my nicknames, I mostly get some posts I've made to various messageboards, but my real name turns up a bunch of links to the same 3 or 4 people with my name that are into gaming or computers, then finally a couple of links to rockyhorrornewsgroup.org, the local board of education, and the staff page at the radio station I work for, complete with a picture.

Tinker · 11-11-2003, 09:15 AM

My name turns up all sorts of things but the funny part of it is.. that my name really is Tinker... I got a few tattoo links ( I used to own a tattoo shop) I am not longer in the biz sold my shop about 4 years ago to move on

numist · 11-11-2003, 09:32 AM

under the numist nick.. almost all results belong to me, a few forums, and my website, but a search for my name reveals nothing... another common british name. bah

KnifeMissile · 11-11-2003, 12:05 PM

Actually, my nick name is Id Kong (the surname is real). I won't mention my real one but you can do a search for that and see pretty much everything there is to know about me on the web, considering how my real name produces absolutely no hits...

I didn't mean your login name on TFP. That would be silly...

Redlemon · 11-11-2003, 12:36 PM

There's a whole bunch under both Redlemon and Red Lemon, including internet hosting companies and gaming software. None of it is me, as far as I can tell. I only use that name on TFP.

Dano069 · 11-11-2003, 12:50 PM

Dano069 only reveals posts on some of the boards I subscribe to. That is all.

Leviathan[NCV] · 11-11-2003, 12:54 PM

You can find my real name plastered over a few pages of google, but my actual online name has been a tad popular as of late.

Bleh.

torgone · 11-12-2003, 09:11 AM

My online nickname fame is the only fame I have, and it's really not all that impressive. Just my captioning activities (attempted humor). My real name just brings up a lot of other people.

JusticeForPhat · 11-12-2003, 03:49 PM

Phatman used to turn up some things, but what is scarier is that I have friends who didnt know my real name for a good 6 months. Just never came up in convrsation i guess.

telekinetic2 · 11-12-2003, 04:59 PM

Real name: tutoring schedule, some results from my races, my personal website, a magazine article I wrote, and, for some gawd awful reason, www.free-big-cock.biz--swear to god.

TelekineticFool and "telekinetic fool": my websites, two forums, some feedback I left, and, most proud, a mention in the Dilbert Newsletter! Yay, I'm intraFamous! I'm also the only 'telekinetic fool' out there, sez google.

wabbit · 11-12-2003, 08:09 PM

Well Google returned 836 entries for wabbit before it began ommiting potential duplicates.

I'd call that almost famous unless Looney Toons carries a lot of weight.

absence_of_color · 11-12-2003, 08:59 PM

I dont know, Ive never tried!
Thanks. Ill keep that for a rainy day or something!

oberon · 11-12-2003, 09:23 PM

My alter ego (on TFP) is little known and common on the Internet. My real name, however, is a different story. 1st hit on Google, plus 5 of top 10 hits.

And I don't exactly have a rare name, either.

joesmith · 11-12-2003, 10:48 PM

i'm way more famous under my Real internet nickname than in real life (and i get alot of hits for real life) - i've been fairly active on the net since the early days, and helped with a popular file sharing programs inception though.. so my net fame is sort of cemented... ugh

sillygirl · 11-12-2003, 11:35 PM

I went through 25 pages of "sillygirl" -- got like, two links to TFP's Tilted paranoia. And there were way more pages left.

Went through and old username, got links to paranoia.

Used old married name and maiden name.. got nothin'

SabrinaFair · 11-13-2003, 06:03 AM

I have too many nicknames to make a name for myself under one of them.

Under my birth name, I'm the very first Google! Like, the first two out of a couple hundred. That makes me happy.

Vyk · 11-13-2003, 08:08 AM

I used to be very famous in the Ultima Online gaming community back when it was first started under a different pseudonym. It was amusing to have people 'know who I was' when I went to game conventions and such.

I'm not famous at all under my real name. I have a common biblical first name and a very common hispanic last name so google searches don't usually find me, just 66,000 other hits.

Shauk · 11-13-2003, 10:45 AM

Searched the web for Shauk. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,820

http://www.google.com/search?q=Shauk...utf-8&oe=utf-8

yeah turns up with my LJ, my pimprig account, my valley forums account, my DJShauk.com site, my gamermatrix.com site.. well just about every site i own, also my photo gallery on sexintheass.com (humor site, no actual sex in asses involved)

heh yeah im all over the place

oh yeah, spokaneparties.com too.

whoo. lots results there.

World's King · 11-13-2003, 12:19 PM

With World's King I get a lot of sites about Jesus or Michael Jackson. A few TFP things but mostly crap obout Jesus.

With Scoot Fighter (my name in the scooter world) I get some site in German. No idea what the hell it is.

dragon2fire · 11-14-2003, 04:18 PM

I am the only dragon2fire

anywere

at least according to google

fugue_life · 11-15-2003, 06:05 PM

my name refers to a psychological term for an altered state where someone wakes up forgets who they are and the life they have been leading and starts a new life under a different name, usually in another state or part of the world. Then one day they wake up and remember everything from the past and cant remember what they have been doing lately, this period of a new existense is called a fugue state or life.... so yeah there is plenty of stuff on the web about my name

hu-man · 11-18-2003, 07:25 AM

My real name goggles me a list of anagrams of my name (which somebody from a newsgroup I once participated in made), the websites I created (one about Tom Waits, one about my old band), some kid from another school, a bunch of newsgroup links, some newsgroup statistics, some people finding their ancestors (not me), a picture of me sewing (?), and a question I once asked Douglas Adams, which he never answered, and then died. Sadly.
hu-man brings up all kinds of crap, nothing related to me - at least I gave up before finding any.
So, my real name is more famous than my alias! Hooray!

ganon · 11-19-2003, 03:31 PM

my alias is from a video game, so it gets much recognition, but I am famous as well, so I don't know, really.

WarWagon · 11-25-2003, 03:37 PM

Almost no relevant information on my alias, as its fairly common in the racing world, though was known by car lovers and haters alike from the area I'm originally from (also dubbed by others as the Honda Killer).

My real name produces quite a few relevant google finds though, despite it being a very common last name. Almost all of it is related to my NCAA shooting, as well as state matches prior to college. The other few are high school related.

Rubyee · 11-25-2003, 04:30 PM

This is actually quite a funny thread for me, but I will explain later.

Rubyee- 11 results
Ruby- what I wanted my name to be, and how it is pronounced- 6,710,000 results
Emily- first name- 3,800,000 results
Emily + last name- 343,000 results
Emily + middle name + last name- 131,000

Okay, funny story time. The year I was born, Emily was the most popular name for girls in the country, and my last name was the most popular name for boys in the country. I think Marie (middle name) came up pretty high in the list as well. This has, in fact, happened many years since then, making my name the most popular name in the country.

ubertuber · 11-25-2003, 05:46 PM

Well, I'm all over the place as my real name - comes from doing concerts. Found some press releases I never knew about, reviews, and programs... As my alias, only one link that is me - and it is to TFP. Apparently there are some people out there that are into big potatoes - ubertubers indeed! I never thought about that one...

kifferfong · 11-26-2003, 06:33 AM

I am, but only because i use my nickname in real life too. Had it since high school, and my closer friends use it

11-09-2003, 01:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
KnifeMissile Location: Waterloo, Ontario	Is anyone more famous under their nickname? Doing a google search for my name reveals absolutely nothing about me. Unfortunately, I have one of those common names (like John Smith) so I do get a lot of false positives. On the other hand, I can find myself under my nickname and under different contexts, as well. I suppose this shouldn't be surprising to me considering how I'm actually credited as my nickname for a product that I help engineer. One of these links even has my photo! It makes me wonder how I would have ranked among the other John Smiths... So, is anyone else more famous under their nickname?

11-09-2003, 08:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
phredgreen who? Location: the phoenix metro	strangely enough, when i google phredgreen, i only come up with the few marks that i've left on the web. sorry about that. apparently i'm the only noteworthy phredgreen out there. __________________ My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. - Thomas Paine

11-09-2003, 12:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
bermuDa don't ignore this--> Location: CA	when i google bermuDa or fuxor (my other forum name from a tech site) I get so many results i couldn't sift through them. bermudatriad, however; comes up with a handful of results and they're all related to me. I even found my old old spaceports website, lol. __________________ I am the very model of a moderator gentleman.

11-09-2003, 07:25 PM	#4 (permalink)
Peryn Junkie Location: San Diego, CA.	Turns out Peryn was a character in LOTR (a minor one i guess) that i had never noticed before. Turned out to be a girl too :/ Kinda odd though, i just put some letters together a few years ago and made it up....or so i thought. I have never encountered anyone with this name before, but apparently it is somewhat common. Heh, found a link to me on the TFP through google. That was wierd. All in all thouhg, i pretty much cant find myself on the web. Cant find my real name on their either. Bah... __________________ Dont cry kid, It's not your fault you suck.

11-09-2003, 07:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
drawerfixer Stonerific Location: Colorado	This was actually pretty interesting. I thought I'd be getting a lot of woodworkers/building websites, but everything Google returned on 'drawerfixer' was about me! They mostly had to do with a gaming order that I'm in, but TFP and tortoises were in there also. My other online alias, pacopicasso, returned a lot of my gaming order posts also. My real name returns one page from the local newspaper buried deep on page four or five. __________________ They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

11-09-2003, 08:51 PM	#6 (permalink)
bundy . Location: Tokyo	yes, my real name is Russell Crowe... oh, dammit, i just let everyone in on my secret... j/k seriously, no, i´m only famous in my own lunchbox. there are a few famous bundys out there... like Al and Ted... but i´m not even named after them... so i can´t cash in their fame. __________________ Ohayo!!!

11-10-2003, 05:13 AM	#7 (permalink)
onetime2 Junkie Location: NJ	Nope. I get a few hits on my alter ego but I get more on my real name. I spent a fair amount of time writing articles & books and giving presentations about the economy and industry in another life. There's apparently a musician with my real name who gets considerably more press than me. It will be a turning point when the hits associated with me surpass the ones associated with him. __________________ Strive to be more curious than ignorant. Last edited by onetime2; 11-10-2003 at 12:20 PM..

11-10-2003, 06:42 AM	#8 (permalink)
Nefir Junkie Location: Louisville, KY	Yes, I get a few hits for "Nefir Nefarious", from way back in the days I actually participated in the MMORPG and online gaming communities (ie: released some maps for RUNE, which people seemed to enjoy). Thats about as relevant as Google gets. On the scary side, I've just realized there's an Alladdin character named just "Nefir", and a whole boatload of strange and disturbing websites, may of them possibly from another planet... Oh the horror. My real name generates nothing useful aside from some standings in a rollerblading event I took part in a couple of times. __________________ You do not use a Macintosh, instead you use a Tandy Kompressor break your glowstick, Kompressor eat your candy Kompressor open jaws, Kompressor release ants Kompressor watch you scream, Because Kompressor does not dance Last edited by Nefir; 11-10-2003 at 06:44 AM..

11-10-2003, 09:01 AM	#9 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	Evidently there's another ratbastid who's a member of a LAN gaming crew in Rhode Island. He gets a bigger googleshare than I do for my name. I show up as Hit #7, though, on the TFP Folding@Home team stats page! And many contributions to everything2.com over the next couple pages, which was my Web Crack long before I found TFP. My real name is surprisingly common--enough so that I get emails every now and then asking if I was in the service in certain years or graduated from certain univerities, usually years before I was born. I didn't bother to google me--I presume I'll get pretty ersatz results. Funnily enough, lurkette's IRL name turned up a porn star who spelled her name exactly the same (slightly unusual) way. Funny! That's my little porn star!

11-10-2003, 09:53 AM	#10 (permalink)
quadro2000 All Possibility, Made Of Custard Location: New York, NY	My nickname turns up a bunch of links but none of them have anything to do with me. Whew. __________________ You have to laugh at yourself...because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't. - Emily Saliers

11-10-2003, 04:59 PM	#11 (permalink)
Stiltzkin Junkie	"Stiltzkin" turns up a bunch of Final Fantasy related results, but nothing relating to me. I actually only started using this nick on TFP. Before TFP, I used some other nickname. That one turns up a bunch of sites in Spanish :-D __________________ The most important thing in this world is love.

11-10-2003, 05:03 PM	#12 (permalink)
Spinach_Indeed Banned? Location: Artic Tundra	When I search for Spinach Indeed I just get back a bunch of recipes. When I search Spinach_Indeed however, a couple TFP links and some other stuff I've posted in. Neato. __________________ Spinach in Need is Spinach Indeed

11-10-2003, 06:04 PM	#13 (permalink)
Mephisto2 Junkie	Mephisto (or Mephistocles) certainly brings up more hits than my unusual Irish name. The only hits I get on my real name are some work related articles in some IT publications and an annoying post I made to a history bulletin board about 10 years ago. I wish I could remove that! Mr Mephisto

11-10-2003, 11:21 PM	#14 (permalink)
majik_6 narcissist Location: looking in a mirror	Under my nicknames, I mostly get some posts I've made to various messageboards, but my real name turns up a bunch of links to the same 3 or 4 people with my name that are into gaming or computers, then finally a couple of links to rockyhorrornewsgroup.org, the local board of education, and the staff page at the radio station I work for, complete with a picture. __________________ it's all about self-indulgence

11-11-2003, 09:15 AM	#15 (permalink)
Tinker Tilted Location: California	My name turns up all sorts of things but the funny part of it is.. that my name really is Tinker... I got a few tattoo links ( I used to own a tattoo shop) I am not longer in the biz sold my shop about 4 years ago to move on __________________ "The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool." Marquis de SADE

11-11-2003, 09:32 AM	#16 (permalink)
numist Banned Location: UCSD, 510.49 miles from my love	under the numist nick.. almost all results belong to me, a few forums, and my website, but a search for my name reveals nothing... another common british name. bah

11-11-2003, 12:05 PM	#17 (permalink)
KnifeMissile Location: Waterloo, Ontario	Actually, my nick name is Id Kong (the surname is real). I won't mention my real one but you can do a search for that and see pretty much everything there is to know about me on the web, considering how my real name produces absolutely no hits... I didn't mean your login name on TFP. That would be silly...

11-11-2003, 12:36 PM	#18 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	There's a whole bunch under both Redlemon and Red Lemon, including internet hosting companies and gaming software. None of it is me, as far as I can tell. I only use that name on TFP. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

11-11-2003, 12:50 PM	#19 (permalink)
Dano069 is Nucking Futs! Location: On the edge of sanity	Dano069 only reveals posts on some of the boards I subscribe to. That is all. __________________ I may look attentive, but I'm taking peeks down your blouse faster than the human eye can follow.

11-11-2003, 12:54 PM	#20 (permalink)
Leviathan[NCV] Well... Location: afk	You can find my real name plastered over a few pages of google, but my actual online name has been a tad popular as of late. Bleh.

11-12-2003, 09:11 AM	#21 (permalink)
torgone What's beyond psycho? Location: Still out there	My online nickname fame is the only fame I have, and it's really not all that impressive. Just my captioning activities (attempted humor). My real name just brings up a lot of other people. __________________ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx

11-12-2003, 03:49 PM	#22 (permalink)
JusticeForPhat Crazy Location: Philly	Phatman used to turn up some things, but what is scarier is that I have friends who didnt know my real name for a good 6 months. Just never came up in convrsation i guess.

11-12-2003, 04:59 PM	#23 (permalink)
telekinetic2 Loser	Real name: tutoring schedule, some results from my races, my personal website, a magazine article I wrote, and, for some gawd awful reason, www.free-big-cock.biz--swear to god. TelekineticFool and "telekinetic fool": my websites, two forums, some feedback I left, and, most proud, a mention in the Dilbert Newsletter! Yay, I'm intraFamous! I'm also the only 'telekinetic fool' out there, sez google.

11-12-2003, 08:09 PM	#24 (permalink)
wabbit Psycho	Well Google returned 836 entries for wabbit before it began ommiting potential duplicates. I'd call that almost famous unless Looney Toons carries a lot of weight.

11-12-2003, 08:59 PM	#25 (permalink)
absence_of_color Insane Location: in a golden garden of grey	I dont know, Ive never tried! Thanks. Ill keep that for a rainy day or something! __________________ ...absent of everything.

11-12-2003, 09:23 PM	#26 (permalink)
oberon Quadrature Amplitude Modulator Location: Denver	My alter ego (on TFP) is little known and common on the Internet. My real name, however, is a different story. 1st hit on Google, plus 5 of top 10 hits. And I don't exactly have a rare name, either. __________________ "There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught." -- Irish proverb

11-12-2003, 10:48 PM	#27 (permalink)
joesmith Tilted Location: toronto	i'm way more famous under my Real internet nickname than in real life (and i get alot of hits for real life) - i've been fairly active on the net since the early days, and helped with a popular file sharing programs inception though.. so my net fame is sort of cemented... ugh

11-12-2003, 11:35 PM	#28 (permalink)
sillygirl Newlywed Location: at home	I went through 25 pages of "sillygirl" -- got like, two links to TFP's Tilted paranoia. And there were way more pages left. Went through and old username, got links to paranoia. Used old married name and maiden name.. got nothin' __________________ Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly-Rose Franken ....absence makes me miss him more...

11-13-2003, 06:03 AM	#29 (permalink)
SabrinaFair Junkie Location: Louisville, KY	I have too many nicknames to make a name for myself under one of them. Under my birth name, I'm the very first Google! Like, the first two out of a couple hundred. That makes me happy. __________________ "With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy." -Desiderata

11-13-2003, 08:08 AM	#30 (permalink)
Vyk Insane Location: Dayton, Ohio	I used to be very famous in the Ultima Online gaming community back when it was first started under a different pseudonym. It was amusing to have people 'know who I was' when I went to game conventions and such. I'm not famous at all under my real name. I have a common biblical first name and a very common hispanic last name so google searches don't usually find me, just 66,000 other hits. __________________ "Courage of the heart is very rare"

11-13-2003, 10:45 AM	#31 (permalink)
Shauk Confused Adult Location: Spokane, WA	Searched the web for Shauk. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,820 http://www.google.com/search?q=Shauk...utf-8&oe=utf-8 yeah turns up with my LJ, my pimprig account, my valley forums account, my DJShauk.com site, my gamermatrix.com site.. well just about every site i own, also my photo gallery on sexintheass.com (humor site, no actual sex in asses involved) heh yeah im all over the place oh yeah, spokaneparties.com too. whoo. lots results there.

11-13-2003, 12:19 PM	#32 (permalink)
World's King Here Location: Denver City Denver	With World's King I get a lot of sites about Jesus or Michael Jackson. A few TFP things but mostly crap obout Jesus. With Scoot Fighter (my name in the scooter world) I get some site in German. No idea what the hell it is. __________________ heavy is the head that wears the crown

11-14-2003, 04:18 PM	#33 (permalink)
dragon2fire Junkie	I am the only dragon2fire anywere at least according to google

11-15-2003, 06:05 PM	#34 (permalink)
fugue_life Insane Location: under the stairs	my name refers to a psychological term for an altered state where someone wakes up forgets who they are and the life they have been leading and starts a new life under a different name, usually in another state or part of the world. Then one day they wake up and remember everything from the past and cant remember what they have been doing lately, this period of a new existense is called a fugue state or life.... so yeah there is plenty of stuff on the web about my name __________________ ba-weep=gra=na-weep-nini-bon?

11-18-2003, 07:25 AM	#35 (permalink)
hu-man The one that got away Location: Over the hill and far away	My real name goggles me a list of anagrams of my name (which somebody from a newsgroup I once participated in made), the websites I created (one about Tom Waits, one about my old band), some kid from another school, a bunch of newsgroup links, some newsgroup statistics, some people finding their ancestors (not me), a picture of me sewing (?), and a question I once asked Douglas Adams, which he never answered, and then died. Sadly. hu-man brings up all kinds of crap, nothing related to me - at least I gave up before finding any. So, my real name is more famous than my alias! Hooray!