In search of people with your name
So weird. I was just talking about this idea with a friend the other day and here I come across an article about this exact thing. In an article for The Atlantic, writer Julie Beck describes her quest to seek out as many people as possible with her same name.
Using the website How Many of Me, you can do a quick and dirty search of how many people share your name according to US Census data. For me, that's 3 other Herman Yung's living in the United States. That's news to me since the only person I've come across so far -- at least online -- with my name is a young man living in Hong Kong.
The only reason I know this, and Julie describes this a bit in her article, is because the internet has sort of become this "land grab" of identity plates, and the one I am currently not in possession of is the Instagram handle "hermanyung". It doesn't matter too much to me I guess (although I still would like that Instagram handle) because if anybody searches for me, they will undoubtedly find me as the first search result on Google.
This brings to light something I've considered to be increasingly important to me as I get older and as the digital age wraps itself ever more tightly into everyone's daily life. The idea is, essentially, how I would name my children in the future. Granted, the last name Yung isn't that common, but giving my children common first names will certainly increase the odds that some other Yung out there (unrelated to me) will also give their child that name. No Marks, Jessicas, Graces, Davids, or Johns I guess...
How the US National Archives digitizes documents and records
There's an interesting part of this video that shows Adolf Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, and her personal videos from being alongside Hitler. The US National Archives has digitized a good portion of them.
AIM will be discontinued on December 15, 2017
I just logged into AIM for the first time in probably a year. I was hit with this very comforting feeling of seeing my Buddy List populate (I'm amazed how many people are signed on right now...) and seeing how I used to categorize my friends into lists back in my adolescence.
AIM was a huge part of my social life growing up. There was no Facebook or Instagram and text messaging was just getting around to being cheap enough to do on the regular (used to be charged per text). AIM was the communication tool of choice and the one that probably, at least for me, made talking on the phone a thing of the past.
This year, on December 15, 2017, AOL will shut down AIM permanently. At least ICQ is still around...?
Jimmy Kimmel on Mass Shooting in Las Vegas
Jimmy Kimmel really is the best late night talk show host.