Don't tell me, don't tell me. Aristophenes also measured the circumference of the globe using a set length of text at noon or thereabouts?



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Hey Magda, did your brother ever work for Enron? <grin>

Would someone please hand me a paper towel? My brain just exploded and it's made an awful mess.....

ps, did you know it's extremely difficult to clean gray matter out of a keyboard?

On a vaguely related note:

We had to calculate how many reels of sellotape it would take to go round the circumference of the world in my maths GCSE.

Still don't know why - any suggestions?

Because the world was falling apart and all the leading mathematicians were busy? Because the sellotape factories needed a bit of extra business? To make your maths lessons REALLY exciting?

No, my brother never worked for Enron, but he did turn down a job offer from Microsoft (aka The Evil Empire).

He live in Seattle, and works as an "Internet Security Architect" for a company called Aventail (which means he makes 4 times as much money as I do).

Oh, and if you do a google search on my last name (VanHeyningen) 90 percent of what you find will relate to my brother, Marc. (I'm not kidding--try it). He was webmaster for Indiana University (yes, the whole university) when he was a grad student, attended one of the first WWW conferences in Chicago, and wrote a finger gateway for the web that lots of people linked to.

I don't show up until page 5 or so, but then I don't usually use my real name on the web.

Of course, the last time I did a search on my last name, I found a cached newspaper article about my dad's second wife's son (a cop) being brought up on police brutality charges.



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&quot;I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around.&quot;
--Ross Smith

In fact, out of curiosity, I did a search on "Marc VanHeyningen" (with quotes, so you search for the whole string) and got:
Results 1-10 of about 2,430.

And I'm pretty certain they're all him.

By contrast, a search for "Jon Brierley" gives 34 results, at least one of which isn't our Jon (since it says he was born in 1972). "Ben Tymens" gives 13, and my real name gives a paltry 7 (but they are all me).
Using my medieval/online full name gives 10 results, but 2 are someone else.

A new measure for fame. How often do you show up on search engines.



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&quot;I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around.&quot;
--Ross Smith

Oh my god, I did a search on my surname "Ogeia"

and i found out I have a beach!

[www.mma.es]

in Spain!

I get 7,650 hits. Apparently I kick ass in Fontainebleau.

News to me. I don't even know where it is.

Had a surreal conversation with a chap in a little photo processing place in Newcastle once. On seeing my surname was (is) Graham, he asked 'ooh, do you know David Graham?'. On pointing out that I did, as it was in fact me, he replied, 'Oh you're not him, he's much older'.

So I'm not me. How odd.

Backed up by a recent trip to the dentist, at which the dentist examined my x-rays, then my teeth, then the x-rays again, then, whilst prodding around my mouth remarked 'These aren't your teeth!'

Now I'm pretty sure they are in fact my teeth. I have had some memory loss incidents at university (usually involving beer/scrumpy), but I'm reasonably certain that my teeth are the ones I was issued with.

Suspect rephrasing it to 'This isn't your x-ray' might have been more accurate. I pity the poor bloke whose x-rays they *did* belong to, as he needed some serious dental work....

even though I have a pretty unusual first name, Twila, if you Google my last names with it, you still get a LOT of hits. Some of them are mine -mostly from the high school alumni website I run. Most of the rest are genealogical and Christian singer sites (aka Twila Paris) and you also get the occasional Twyla Tharp, the choreographer, whom I'm actually named for...my Mom saw it in a magazine, loved it, Dad hated it, Mom won and changed the spelling... (Coulda been worse, I almost ended up as Maudie Marie!)

Vanity searches are SO fun!

Well, 29 out of those 34 *are* me. Mind you most of them are pages from my site, and most of the rest are pages from Jasper's site. Not that impressive, then.

PSD's are all his, I think .... but when I tried to see what other parodies he's done I got a 'divide by cucumber error'.

Sarah gets 22. And they are all her, even the ones born in 1753. She's in the ChronoGuard.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I probably get the record. "Robert Johnson" gives 156,000 hits.

Most of which are for 'The King of the Delta Blues'

'Robert G Johnson' still gives 1,060 hits.

The closest I got to finding myself: I came in 10th place if I did 'R G Johnson' restricted to the UK. That told me that my extension at work is 32057 which I know anyway !

It has the advantage that there are lots of articles by clever people with the same name so I can expand my CV if necessary...

Rob ..... why are you going down to the crossroads with that guitar and a spade? .....



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

My boyfriend must get the record with over 2 million hits... then again Michael Lewis is probably one of the most common names around...

Running "Twila Reed" in quotes nets 16 hits, FWIW. Don't know how many are AAC though (although the first is her wedding page).



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&quot;I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around.&quot;
--Ross Smith

okay, getting creeped out now! LOL

hmm, think I can top that, my 'real' name is Tom Smith, so google comes up with 2.4 million entries, and no, I didn't bother looking to see if any of them were me...



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Searching for me in quotes on Google gets 26 (only the ones to do with cars are me though) having said that - I do come out first - yay!

Here's a Tom Smith I know who definitely isn't you, but writes some really sick and twisted songs and song parodies.

[www.tomsmithonline.com]



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&quot;I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around.&quot;
--Ross Smith

No doubt I am thick + combination of reading the posts in this format (my PC takes ages for each message to come up and I lose track; found the old fforum easier to navigate and to keep track of conversations!) but...

what's the answer please to the puzzle of George and the 30th floor...

is it (look away now in case this is sort of right)..that he is
a dwarf (insert pc term here) and therefore difficulty ensues in reaching buttons - but if so what has an umbrella got to do with anything and also what has boating got to do with any of it (isnt that just a posh, elitist much caricatured hobby of private school boys?)

"mystified of melbourne" seeks help!