If you’re tired of looking at the same old desktop wallpaper day after day on your computer, visit InterfaceLIFT. They have some fantastic wallpapers created by artists (both illustrators and photographers). Here’s the beautiful one that I have right now:
Thanks for the link, Michelle!
I am helping put on a dance at our local Middle School and we’re sending out hand-addressed invitations. For the “addressing party” I’m in charge of bringing the 200 stamps we need, so I had the bright idea that I’d order them from usps.com so I could choose a nice design. Plus, I’d have the convenience of having the stamps arrive at my house without me having to wait in line at the post office. Brilliant! However, there is a small fly in the ointment…. the U.S. Postal Service.
I chose my stamps easily enough and added them to my cart. When I clicked “Checkout” I was told that I would be given my shipping charges after I entered my address information. Shipping charges? Doesn’t a postal worker conveniently make a delivery to my house six days a week? Hmmm… I decided to proceed just for grins. How bad could it be? I had to first create a username and 8 character password consisting of at least 1 number and 1 capital letter. Nice. Then I had to enter my address, a password hint, etc. Oy. THEN I had to agree to the terms and conditions of the site. THEN I had to view a confirmation screen with all of the information that I had just entered. By this point, I was starting to get a tad annoyed. Finally I was taken to a page where I was told that the stamps would be shipped to me via Priority Mail and standard Priority Mail rates applied, plus a $1 handling fee. So, we’re looking at something like at least $5 to have the mail carrier deliver stamps to my house.
No way.
I’ll go wait in the line at the post office, thankyouverymuch. It’s the principal of the thing. I do not want to pay for the post office to deliver something to my house when they’re already delivering something to my house almost-daily.
Am I crazy? Maybe. Overreacting? Probably. But I still can’t swallow the delivery fee.
I came across an article last week on the Houston Chronicle website about someone who was obsessed with their Google Twin. (Unfortunately, I can’t link to that article because it’s now offline!) I did a Google search for the phrase “google twin” and actually found a Wikipedia entry about it: A “Google twin” is a person who shares your name, and whose information returns results on Google when you egosurf. There have been some instances of people who become obsessed with their Google twin(s) and their lives.”
So not only do we now have the new term “Google twin” in our lexicon, we also have “egosurf” which cracks me up. But I digress…
When you have a name like “Heather Foeh”, you quite safely do not have a Google twin. There aren’t too many of us Foehs in the world, and so far I haven’t come across another Heather. I can rest safely in the knowledge that when you Google “Heather Foeh” all of the entries you read are about me, me, me. It is a rather lovely, egotistical feeling.
My maiden name, however, is a different story. I was Heather Hunt up until 16 1/2 years ago, and let me tell you, there are plenty of Heather Hunts out there. Including most notoriously, a porn star of French and Pakistani heritage (and yes, I learned her parentage from Wikipedia). I am in the midst of writing a romance novel and have spent quite a bit of time deciding on my pseudonym (even though I haven’t finished my manuscript and have no current publishing prospects), because let’s face it, “Heather Foeh” is not gonna cut it. For one thing, it’s pronounced “fay”. Need I say more? I originally thought about using my maiden name, Heather Hunt, since it has that nice alliteration ring to it. But after finding out about the porn star with the same moniker, I decided that maybe I’d pursue something else. (In case you’re dying of curiosity, I chose Emma Clair.)
So I’m curious. Do any of you, my loyal readers, have a Google twin that you’ve researched? Are you obsessed? Are you perhaps jealous of their Google rank? I’d love to know.
