July 31, 2005
People who are not me
A short visual guide to people who are not me.
This is one of Michaela Roessner's animal masks. Not me! But I enjoyed her Renaissance fantasies.
This is popular anime character Yugi Moto. Not me! Dapper fellow, ain't he.
This is dead terrorist Carlos the Jackal. Again, not me!
However closely this resembles my passport photo, this fellow is not me.
Apparently my voice sounds like his. But deeper. Much deeper.
I'd like to think I am less annoying than him. Probably not true!
I don't know any Linux at all.
None of these people are me.
And this is not my new apartment. Or even my old one.
Well, I bit.
Having five minutes, I did a quick Google image search and managed to identify one of your alter egos. But that was all. (The Linux was a clue.)
Since you raise the question, *is* there a picture of you out there?
Best,
David Allen
Posted by: David Allen at July 31, 2005 06:52 PMThe only difference between that apartment and your old one is that one is bigger.
And *I* have a photo of you on the computer, just waiting...
Posted by: Carrie at July 31, 2005 07:03 PMDavid Allen, if you let your mouse arrow float over the pictures, you'll get the names behind the photographs.
("Garvis" was a 1970s Swedish pop band. A dark time for that nation. The messy lab photo was taken from a Nature editorial.)
Posted by: Carlos at July 31, 2005 07:23 PM2 hits, eh? Not bad. I trust you weren't the fellow the Area Man was moaning about, and that you can, in fact, take part in a high-five without harming yourself and can correctly identify a rotator-cuff.
Good Christ, though, you need to run the rest of them around the block a few of times...
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero at August 1, 2005 08:49 PMAfter Yu-Gi-Oh, Carlos the Jackel, and the other Carlos Yu, I thought that all of these people were the results of a properly tweaked search for "Carlos Yu", and the point was to find the connection.
Guess not.
Best,
David Allen
Posted by: David Allen at August 1, 2005 11:09 PMThe animal mask is what you get if you search for Coyu. The others, well, my voice really does sound like James Woods (but much deeper), and according to reliable witnesses my passport photo really does look like Meat Loaf. Garvis is my Friendster photo, deployed as not to raise any dating expectations too high.
Posted by: Carlos at August 1, 2005 11:27 PM