There's a lawyer in Philadelphia named Justin Bieber. I'm not sure which would be worse.
haha, you are in trouble, i am calling justin bieber!
I Am Mark Zuckerberg
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Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I share the same name with a local TV star in my country. Even that is a PITA. Can’t imagine being named Mark Zuckerberg or Michael Jackson or anything like that. At some point there were teenager girls calling me (no idea how they got the phone number). I started acting like they called the right person and there would be happy screams on the other hand. I guess the high point was that. I decided that might not be a…
Michael (A.) Jackson is the inventor of representing programs in this diagram format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming
It used to be that whenever I told people about his work, they'd ask if that was the beer guy.
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#43There's a lawyer in Philadelphia named Justin Bieber. I'm not sure which would be worse.
The data is pretty clear, Justin Bieber, specially in February 2011 (but improving since) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
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#45Interesting look into what Zuck and other mega celebrities experience day to day. I'm sure Zuck and others of a certain stature have many protection layers, but surely some things slip through and it's interesting to consider those just a tier lower that can't afford all of the security, etc.
Reminds me of the Bill Murray quote: "I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it."
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#46Similar case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
Close approximation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft (this was not Mike from "Dirty Jobs" but a different person)
Man, litigating versus a 12 year old boy has got to be the easiest job in the business - "Will you settle for an Xbox and a bundle of games?"
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#47This is why we should replace names with uuids.
"Ohhh, if it isn't 99adbad3-f3c8-4c52-99d8-be692c62b9db again! Man, what a blast last Friday at e128001f-9737-4245-b08b-73bc50db0204's party, right?"
I just go by Ad Bad. Yeah I know about the other guy. E7 123 and the other college friends call me Ad Bad 3 and him Ad 88
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#48Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#49Dennis Ritchie (co-inventor of the C programming language) had a page on his personal web site called “My other lives” with a list of other Dennis Ritchies.
“Outside of my main professional career, I have accumulated other WWW-recorded accomplishments and have other interests. Generally I pursue these interests using separate mail addresses, SS#, and DNA.”
It's preserved here:
https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/other...
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#50This is why we should replace names with uuids.
At the very least names should be unique strings, preferably pronouncable