As a journalist and obituary writer, I am huge fan of searching. I can search a database like nobody’s business and do so, without exaggeration, about a hundred times a day.
Google is often a first stop, but rarely is it my last. No, if there’s a search box on a website, I’ll likely use it to learn more about a wide variety of subjects. I search for recipes, books, articles, facts, quizzes, definitions, obits, ideas, photos, synonyms, art, jobs, poetry and more.
Recently, I searched for my own name on the HowManyOfMe website, and this is what I learned:
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Of these two-dozen Jade Walkers, here are a few of note:
Jade Walker is an Austin artist who uses textiles, fabric, fake fur and ordinary crafting materials to make her creations. She’s also the gallery director of the University of Texas’ Visual Arts Center.
Jade Walker is a professional basketball player who signed a contract last year with Faros Keratsiniou in Greece. The Maplewood, N.J., native landed on both the All-BIG EAST and All-Met first teams and was the 23rd player in St. John’s history to score 1,000 points.
Jade Walker, her husband Dan and two friends recently purchased their local ice cream shop in Littleton, N.H. Bishop’s Homemade Ice Cream, which has been in business for 43 years, was Jade’s first job. She still lives within walking distance of the place and hopes it will become a family business for her young children to join one day.
Dr. Jade Walker is the chief optometrist at the Greenville VA Health Care Center in Greenville, N.C., and a specialist in ocular disease and low vision rehabilitation. For the past two years, she’s conducted clinics for the South Carolina Commission for the Blind.
Google’s news alert system also let me know that the world lost a Jade Walker last month. Jade was driving through Houston when someone fired 40 bullets into her car. One struck her in the head and claimed her life. Jade was just 25 years old and she had a 4-year-old daughter. So far, her killer is still on the loose. If you have any information about this case, please call the Houston Police Department Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
One Comment
Steven
I feel like there’s a good story in this… all of the Jade Walkers are summoned to a house on an island off the coast. Nobody knows who summoned them, or why.
This site says there are only 17 Steven Glassmen. (Plural of Glassman is Glassmen. I’m certain of this.) I feel like this is incorrect, because I’ve already interacted with some of them- there are at least two just in South Florida. One is currently an elected city commissioner in Ft Lauderdale.