Just curious. The Boston Globe is one of the most liberal newspapers in the US. (Arguably the most liberal on Earth.
) What were you doing reading it? (You are not a closet Celtics fan, are you?) I've known about this for a while, but it's a article about privacy and Google. Of intrest for a site where everyone uses their own names.
Oh, and yes I've googled my self.
Matt,
Just curious. The Boston Globe is one of the most liberal newspapers in the US. (Arguably the most liberal on Earth.) What were you doing reading it? (You are not a closet Celtics fan, are you?)
I Googled myself and found out I'm various proffs and dead guys. Seriously I also found this So? I'll defend it too.
My name is all over the "Net. It seems it also belongs/belonged to at least two Congressmen, and dozens of City and State officials throughout the country, as well as any number of private citizens. Anyone who can find me in all that mess would have to be so determined that they would have found me even without the help of Google's web-crawler.
Um, Berry. College Newspapers?
Apparently I'm a British mathematician who works with prime numbers or something like that, among various other things.
Sorry Matt,
I mean liberalest of papers that adults read.
Whoa! I tried it, and figured I’d get references to the Mario Bros. video game, or something, but I’m on google! I didn’t occur to me, but since I used to post every week at the SevTrek site (a cartoon Star Trek parody site where you get to create the winning punchline for the cartoon each week), and since SevTrek shows up easily on search engines,
The first link lists two cartoons, one which I came up with the idea for, and the other in which my punchline won the competition:
http://www.sev.com.au/toonzone/halloffame/searchresults.asp?searchinfo=Luigi%20Novi&datafield=Both
Unfortunately, the cartoon archive is temporarily down. The second link, however, is also for Sev Trek, and it’s for the cartoon where Harry Kim asks Tom Paris in Thirty Days why he was thrown into the brig. I didn’t win it, of course, but they list a page with the "Best Entries," and 12 of mine are listed:
http://www.sev.com.au/toonzone/sevtrek/strips/sevtrek148.asp
The next one is some link for some Italian site, and the next two after that are for essays that from Peter David’s blog that I posted on. All the others after that are for sites in Italy.
Apparently, I'm an Australian UFO nut and author. Except for the Australian bit, thats pretty close!
I have my website, Nitcentral, and a string of messages at /PO'ed{Voices of Unreason bashing me for considering "Wiccanism" on the same level as a Federal Holiday that falls on the third monday in February. It's nice to know the intellectual "Community" of senistive souls established there to avoid Vargo and I in my crazy youth can still engage in absentee flaming. It's also nice to know that M. Jenkins must care, at the rate I "upset" her. :-D }
I'm an award winning South African actor apparently.
Did I mention my terror when William Berry:Chastity came up. Appartently its a geneolical term for a sixteenth century dude or something. At first I was worried that they know. (A prediction?)
Oh, anyone "googling" themselves, (sounds like a weird activity) should use " around their name.
William Berry got 65,000 hits and "William Berry" omly got 10,100
Yeah, good point. It reduces the amount of Hungarian web sites I get.
I get a bunch of references to NitCentral under my name (!), and I'm both a baseball fan and a finacial advisor or something.
Hey! I'm an administrator at Stanford - and I served two years in the Peace Corps in Chile! Cool. I always knew I'd amount to something, someday. 
Oh, sorry, make that the University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus. But still...
My NitCentral identity I've already identified with on this site...
My porn star name, Sam Waterfall, is apparently a former careers advice service worke, and as it turns out the subject of a painting.
But my real name, NitCentral and actual personal interests aside, is unique on the Net! WOO-HOO!!!
I'm a former BYU golf star who is now an amateur in the Georgia circuit, and the principal of a high school in Indiana.
I only came up with 4 items in my google, and 2 of them are related to this site! My full first name came up with nada. Maybe I should get out more!
My last name, by itself, however, turned up 11,200 entries! Most of them are in German, though, so I have no idea what they're about.
margie,
Is your last name Jocobhiemerschmit?
margie,
I mean Johnjacobjinglehiemerschmit?
Unless of course margie's last name is Gambolputty, de von Ausfernschplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-friedigger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knackerthrasherapplebanger-horowitzticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himble-eisenbahnwagen-gutenabendbitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gernspurten-mit-zwei-mache-lüberhunds-futgumber-aberschönendanke-kalbsfleisch-mittleraucher von Hautkopft of Ulm...
(es tut mir lied)
(O Sch**sse! Es tut mir leid! Solch ein Fehler wird nicht wieder vorkommen! :P)
Um, yeah, okay. I know I should've convinced my parents to let me go to German school when I was little!
Sven,
Kennest thou do das landas mer die zitrons bluhen? (It's been a long time and my spelling is probably horrible.)
Die Blaubeere,
Das kannst du laut sagen!
Blue Berry,
Kennst du das Land wo die Zitronen bluehen (or blühen) - but it refers to Italy!
constanze,
That exlains it. In a philosophy of language corse we discussed meaning and intent of meaning. I forget the logical positive philosopher but he used an American airman crashing in Italy and being found by Italian soldiers. He wants them to think he is German officer but the only thing in German he knows is, "Do you know the land where the lemon trees blossom?"
He intends "I am a German officer." The Italian soldiers have no idea what he said beyond it was in German. Only someone in Germany knows he was prattling about lemon trees. (Oh, the logial postive philospher was veddy, veddy British and must've assumed everyone knew that refered to Italy. I only got it about 15 years too late.)
Blaubeere,
It has to do with the fact that germany was too cold to grow lemons at the time this poem/song started - yes, you can sing it, its only the first line of the song.
Also, it implies that Italy, beyond the alps at a time before highways and tunnels and trains existed, was a faraway foreign land, with wonders one couldn't see in daily life here - like lemon trees.
An american with heavy american accent talking in german to the italians and they think he is german? Hmmmm ... I don't know. (Today many, many Italians understand german due to tourism - its still attractive because there's more sunshine and warmer weather than in germany. Like when americans visit florida or california, I guess.)
Blaubeere,
here is the original text and an english translation. The melody is quite catchy, and the text was written by the great german poet Goethe, who was quite in love with Italy. This is the reason why most germans would know what it refers to and can sing the first line of the song (and mmmmm the rest of it). From the poem, the phrase became a figure of speech.
Are there any Italians about, who can tell how well known this reference between land of lemon trees = Italy is for them?
constanze,
It was a hypothetical.
Translation is heck on poetry. The English side is slightly above pedestrian. (I assume the German side was very good, especially with lots of German context, that I lack. ["What so special about lemon trees?"])
I remember a David Letterman where he translated the Beetles Hard Day's Night though a slew of languages and back into English. Paul Schaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band then sang the results. "It's been a hard day, today/ and I've been working very hard./ Then I come to our house/ and see what you've done./ It makes me feel good."
Blue Berry, [why suddenly beer?]
["What so special about lemon trees?"])
see my first post: they didn't grow in germany, so they were strange.
Translation is heck on poetry. I fully agree with you there; in the attempt to make the english version rhyme, too, some parts have been mistranslated (always a very difficult choice for the translator). The first line is not "where the lemon blossom grows" but "where the lemon tree blossoms".
The first verse conjures up pictures of faraway, mystic countries and things (Goethe wrote this before trains, cars, planes or TV and National geographic existed. And the warm countries have long had an attraction on the germans, still today most of the germans travel into warmer, sunnier countries for holidays.)
The second and third verse are more mysterious and deep. I haven't spent time with this poem before, as only the first line is a figure of speech, bringing Italy to mind. Am I repeating myself?
What would it mean to somebody living in seattle or the like if I talk about "the country where orange trees blossom" - wouldn't he think of florida/ california, sun and warm weather?
constanze,
The question about what so special about lemon trees was assuming a reader who never read your explanation.
Part of the problem is time. If you say to someone in Seattle "the land where orange trees blossom" he'd shrug since he can drive there in about 2 hours. Coconuts or mangoes, however will bring to mind exotic locations after he thinks of the supermarket. It is probably more distant in time than geography.
Beer got into it because you and Sven translated Berry into "beere". In English that would be a silent "E" and "beer" is good.
Just googled myself.found out most of it was either fanfic I wrote for either Star Trek or
Laverne & Shirley for couple fansites or else
genealogy questions/correspondence.
On the other hand I found out that I died at the age of 13 in 1979!
Interesting since I was 20 in 1979!
Actually the person who died at the age of 13
in 1979 was named Scott McClenny Pierce.
There's also another Scott McClenny who plays
high school football somewhere that I found.
I take it you're all supposed to go fuzzy around the edges and run off into the distance screaming "Who am I?"
Try "Your Name" + "Your City" Besides my letters to the editor that they deigned to publish I am a Captain of a Yacht.
A nice variaton on this can be found at here.
Oh man! I've really done it now!
http://www.rosssheriff.com/MADD.html
And one of my victims was one of the world's most renown comedians, to boot!
Wow, I only got 9 hits on my name (and all of them me). Not too bad.
Marc
429,000 results for D.W. March! Go me! ;)
"Google calls in the 'language police'"
for those who want a command line solution for
Google searches:
(uses Windows 9x start command, can be adapted
for other OSes and programming languages)
@echo off
:: webgoogl.bat
:: Comamnd line usage:
:: webgoogl keyword (use + between multiple keywords)
start http://google.com/search?q=%1
@echo off
:: anygoogl.bat
:: command lile usage:
:: anygoogl images(or groups) keyword (use + between mutiple keywords)
start http://%1.google.com/%1?q=%2