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[…] I’ve Been Outed :: webomatica — Jason has some thoughts on dealing with having your name becoming the identifier for your “anonymous” blog. […]

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:10:46 +0000

I’m glad you’re not unhappy about being outed. I had the same thing happen once before, and I ended up killing the blog to remove the associations. It sucked, but it was a little more personal in nature and definitely not something I’d want every current or prospective employer to be digging through.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:06:48 +0000

Cool, Jason! In replying to you, I wasn’t sure what I should call you — so I checked your About page, which listed your first and last name (so it’s not a secret).

By: Ross

Ross — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:32:45 +0000

Good now I can call you Jason instead of webo

By: Jason Kaneshiro

Jason Kaneshiro — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:13:34 +0000

heh, those are good anecdotes. I don’t know any Dave Dombrowskis but surely there are several with a nation this large. I imagine its a little like that oddity of shared birthdays when you have enough people in the same room. There seems to be a pretty small subset of first names (how many Daves or Gregs do you know) and from there, the last names are less common but not as unusual as we think.

I wonder how many Dave Smiths there are… the mind reels.

By: DaveD

DaveD — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:48:37 +0000

My name is Dave Dombrowski. What's odd is that most poeple don't realize how common my name is:

(1) I was one of three DaveDs living in my town of 200,000 in Pennsylvania. None of us have ever met, and AFAIK none of us are related whatsoever. I speak in the past tense because there are only two of us left in town - the one with bad credit doesn't live in the area anymore!

(2) I grew up as a Cleveland sports fan listening to (then) WWWE and nowadays WTAM 1100 AM, the broadcast home of the Indians, Cavaliers, and Browns. I don't know if he's still the broadcast engineer for the radio sportcasts, but guess who it was? You got it.

(3) But why I just had to post is this - my namesake went from being the GM of the Montreal Expos (contender when he was there) to the Florida Marlins (leading them to the World Series over Cleveland in 1997 and pretty much rebuilt the 2003 champs too) to nowadays the Detroit Tigers (AL champs in 2006).

I'm still amazed at how people I work with every day can't believe how common my name is.

By: DaveD

DaveD — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:48:37 +0000

My name is Dave Dombrowski. What’s odd is that most poeple don’t realize how common my name is:

(1) I was one of three DaveDs living in my town of 200,000 in Pennsylvania. None of us have ever met, and AFAIK none of us are related whatsoever. I speak in the past tense because there are only two of us left in town — the one with bad credit doesn’t live in the area anymore!

(2) I grew up as a Cleveland sports fan listening to (then) WWWE and nowadays WTAM 1100 AM, the broadcast home of the Indians, Cavaliers, and Browns. I don’t know if he’s still the broadcast engineer for the radio sportcasts, but guess who it was? You got it.

(3) But why I just had to post is this — my namesake went from being the GM of the Montreal Expos (contender when he was there) to the Florida Marlins (leading them to the World Series over Cleveland in 1997 and pretty much rebuilt the 2003 champs too) to nowadays the Detroit Tigers (AL champs in 2006).

I’m still amazed at how people I work with every day can’t believe how common my name is.

By: papa

papa — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:33:25 +0000

Take heart Jase, at least your middle name remains TOP SECRET!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:33:25 +0000

Take heart Jase, at least your middle name remains TOP SECRET!