It's funny because some old stuff shows up on the first page too, like a "Latin Insults" handout from back in 1999, the year that I first came to OU (I was originally a professor in the Classics department). All these years later, people are still finding that handout and using it, and I get emails about it periodically. Which is fine with me: in fact, I think it's hilarious! People will sometimes write and ask me to help them translate an insult into Latin, or to help them in choosing a Latin tattoo, which I think is very charming. So, while there are all kinds of sinister stories you can hear about life online, I have nothing but good things to say.
For that more sinister side of life online, here's a hilarious song and video from Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman (and, as celebrities, I can only imagine what they experience when they Google themselves...).
I Google You:
I Google you
Late at night
When I don't know what to do.
I find photos
You've forgotten
You were in,
Put up by your friends.
I Google you
When the day is done
And everything is through.
I read your journal
That you kept
That month in France.
I've watched you dance,
And I'm pleased
Your name is practically unique;
It's only you and
A would-be PhD in Chesapeake
Who writes papers on
The structure of the sun.
I've read each one.
I know that I
Should let you fade
But there's that box
And there's your name;
Somehow it never makes the pain
Grow less or fade or disappear.
I think that I should save my soul
And I should crawl back in my hole,
But it's too easy just to fold
And type your name again.
I fear
I Google you
Whenever I'm alone and feeling blue,
And each scrap of information
That I gather
Says you've found somebody new,
And it really shouldn't matter,
Ought to blow up my computer,
But instead….
I Google you.
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