Memory’s a Strange Thing
So every so often I do a Google search on my name, just to see if stuff from Not News has popped up in unexpected places. (At this point it’s amazing how often my name is attached to various message boards, ratings polls, and so on, but anyway.) On a recent search, I found a blog post that mentioned me in connection with a comic book discussion forum I moderated back when I was in high school. Besides finding it amusing that someone would mention this over ten years later, I was struck by the fact that the blogger got just about every detail other than my name wrong. Part of me is amused by this. Part of me is obsessive compulsive and feels like I should do something to correct the record. But then I get into the question of reliable is my memory after all these years? So for now I think I’ll stick with being amused.
About Dave Thomer
Born and raised in Philadelphia. Studied philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, where I made many great friends and met my wonderful wife. We moved back to Philadelphia, where I studied philosophy some more and became a teacher. Online and off, I'm looking for ways that we can be better citizens and build stronger communities.
Thursday, August 17th 2006 at 5:25 am |
A friend of mine recently alerted me to a growing number of links to thelogbook from Wikipedia, so I went and checked into it. The most intensely amusing one, to me anyway, is the link that seems to hold me up as an example of an overwrought Jewel fan. 😆 I had never really thought of myself as even a big fan of her work – well, I mean, I keep picking up her CDs – but of all the multifarious stuff on my site that one could focus on, I just found that example to be really amusing.
One of these days I really need to stop doing the ol’ Google “ego search.” I think I’ve found it and it’s quite intact, even after being accused of being a Jewel fan.