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Title: Find your alter ego
Post by: 42 on September 28, 2002, 08:38:43 PM
So just to see what might happen I typed my name in a google search.
There is another person with my same name who lives in California and is a wealthy ad executive and is part of an organization to restore Spanish Missions. Very cool.
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: stacer on September 29, 2002, 02:05:23 AM
I've done the same thing before. My alter ego writes for Shape magazine and has also written a book called "Shacking Up: The Single Girl's Guide to Living in Sin."  :o The funny thing is that she's also in publishing, which you wouldn't expect. So I think I'll be using my middle initial from now on... Any suggestions for a pen name?

So, if you *ever* see this book, it is *not* me!
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: House of Mustard on September 29, 2002, 02:24:00 AM
I must be cooler than I thought I was.  My doppleganger is a proffessional racer with the National Muscle Car Association.
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: Lord_of_Me on September 29, 2002, 07:56:49 AM
i wrote:
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
eh? what? ???
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: Spriggan on September 29, 2002, 10:23:43 AM
The first hit on google for my name is my Baldurs gate PS2 review.  and all the others are all female so I'm not even going to go into any alter-ego's >:(
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: Entsuropi on September 29, 2002, 05:20:37 PM
have fun guys. i cant really do this, cause mitchell (my last name) is the 5th most common scottish name, charlie is also really common, so guess what? lots of charlie mitchell's out there i think. though it might be fun to see if any of the TWG reviews pop up.
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: Slant on October 29, 2002, 02:55:49 AM
I don't have an alter ego; just a lot of clones.

~clone, clone on the range~
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 06, 2003, 06:42:55 PM
Ok, I'm bored, and I did this.

7 of the first 10 google hits (including the first 6) for Eric J. Ehlers refer to ME, most of them on my own domains.

Removing the middle initial, I only command 4 of the first 10. The first is some Frenchy guy talking about mass transit. The next two are for a Swedish guy who's page I had to have google translate to figure out (he's a computer geek, apparently). The fourth place goes to some Track runner. And I come in fifth. Not bad since I haven't ever actually finished a full site and publicized it.
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: Sminja on March 28, 2004, 02:48:58 AM
I typed mine in...all I got was a link to a picture of a kid holding a fish...My brother's name did come up on the foruth or so link down, because he is listed in the athletics section of princeton
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: Maxwell on March 28, 2004, 02:57:27 AM
I tried but google came up with no resuts for "ezeekial raden"... i guess tha means..sob...I'm...sniffle...unique, at least in the name depo
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on March 28, 2004, 03:00:13 AM
(http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v85/Gemm09/Web%20Images/oldnews.jpg)
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: Spriggan on March 28, 2004, 08:47:33 AM
hehe, I retyped in my name and, of course it's different, there's no refrence to me on the first page.  But oddly enough there's one to EUOL (from a TLE thing on Loucs (http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2000/s58.htm)).  I'm not found till the 11th google page now.
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: GorgonlaVacaTremendo on March 28, 2004, 10:17:10 AM
Naturally, I got a lot of Spanish sites, but no direct matches of someone named "Ryan" and "Jurado".  I got a lot of Ryan Adams and Someone ruther Jurados on the same site, though.
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: Brenna on March 28, 2004, 02:56:56 PM
The first hit for my name is for a German painter.  Almost every other hit is me! :)
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on March 28, 2004, 03:49:06 PM
first hit:

My alter ego is a 9 year old girl who lives in Wisconsin. Must be an old picture.

http://www.cystic-l.org/html/MeaganKauffman-Jewell.htm


My other alter ego is a crappy artist who likes to draw furries and anime chicks and puts all her stuff online, because, apparently she doesn't realize she sucks.

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/k/a/kauffman/kauffman.html
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on March 28, 2004, 10:39:08 PM
cystic-l would be a cool band name

and you're right. The furry art does suck. I think I once wrote a column about this sort of self-glorification back when I wrote columns.
Title: Re: Find your alter ego
Post by: Spriggan on March 29, 2004, 02:40:35 AM
hehe she's on Elfwood too, wich is the internets home to hosting crappy fantasy artwork.