We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that
dame_zumari@yahoo.com has exploded. Flight director confirms that:

[...]

>Yes, he'd Googled my name and yes, there's a lot of postings out there
>in my real name. So he knew my medical history, background, a lot
>about my interests and obsessions, and maybe even found the flames I
>got involved in, amidst all the more innocuous noise blether.
>
>I didn't get the job.

I have posted with the handle on this article since 1994, but my real name is
easily cross-referenced if you pore through Google Groups for a couple minutes.
Between my rants about how much I hate pretentious Japanophiliacs and the
9,278,724,365 articles posted to groups like alt.flame and alt.usenet.kooks that
contain copious amounts of Really Bad Words, I doubt I could get hired as a
burger flipper in the USA now.

That said, it pays to have a bog-standard name that gets eleventy-seven Google
hits. There are people with my name around the world who own commuter airlines,
practice OB/GYN, are Chief Scientific Officers for cancer centers, run for
sherriff, and play in the Canadian Football League.

*That* said, as far as I know, I'm the only person with my name on the internet
who also lives in Japan. So scratch that -- I'm a dead duck.


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