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Wednesday, March 03, 2004
This Awkward Moment Brought To You By Google
I bet Hemingway never had this problem. When I was writing my short story for my class last semester, I was banging along and needed a couple of character names. Rather than wasting creativity, I figured I'd just plug in the first names I saw. I work at a university, and I had a class list on my desk. So I grab a name more or less at random (skipped over some names of inappropriate ethnicity) and kept on writing. Didn't think twice about it. Finished the story. Turned it in. Got good feedback. Posted it on this site.
Imagine my surprise when a student, who I'd never met before, came to get a signature on a form the other day. As he walked away, he turns and says, "By the way. I was Googling for my name last night. Why did you make me the villain in your story?"
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