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May 26, 2004

doppelganger

So I googled myself today to find out what's going on with my doppelgangers.

There a few other men in the world with the same name as me. No, my real name is not Grumpy. I have a pretty unique name, so when I google myself I get 3 pages of google hits, about 25 hits altogether. It seems that there are about four of us in the USA. From time to time we all do different stuff, win some award, start a new web page, or whatever. I like to keep tabs on all of us and see how we're all doing.

One is me. Another is a dentist in Virginia. The third is a real estate agent in Racine. And the last guy is a high school band teacher in New Jersey.

This is where it gets weird. It seems that recently, the band teacher has been arrested as part of a global child porn ring. So there is some guy out there, no, not just fucking out there, in fucking New Jersey, that has the same name as me, who has been arrested in connection with a global child pornography ring. Not only that, but he is only 2 years younger than me. The closeness doesn't end there. He lives in New Jersey which is pretty close to the state I am originally from. In fact I have relatives in New Jersey (not the same last name though). Which also means his social security number is probably close to mine numerically. Also, having the same last name and being from the same region of the US as me, he most likely fits my description, average height, brown hair, brown eyes, that non-WASP look. Yikes!

I realize that he is innocent until proven guilty and all that. But seriously, in this society if someone even utters your name and child porn in the same sentence, your life is pretty much toast.

What I can't figure out is, what is the universe trying to tell me here? Should I expect to walk into my local bank one day and have them tell me that my assets have been frozen pending my acquittal? What happens when one of my coworkers is bored one day and decides it will be fun to google me? I bet they'll never look at me quite the same way again.

Well in any case, I have my fingers crossed for my troubled doppelganger and I hope our name gets cleared soon.

posted by grumpy at 9:25 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger grumpy said...

Earthbind,

Alas, I am not a card geek. I'd like to see this cool picture though, what does it look like?

June 01, 2004 5:08 PM  

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