Humans need better naming conventions
23 June 2005 | 0So, I just got an email from Jesse Ross. Not myself, not one of my many email addresses, not even a spammer pretending to be me. But someone actually named Jesse Ross.
That’s not the funny part… this is the funny part:
I work with a guy named Rusty Elm. Rusty needed to email me something, but my standard email address wasn’t working at the moment, so I gave him my Gmail address. Rusty must have written it down wrong, and so he’s been sending me updates on some work that we’re doing to this other Jesse Ross. I haven’t noticed, because Rusty has been CC-ing my other addresses, so I’ve been getting the info. This other Jesse Ross didn’t pay attention to it at first because, well, Rusty Elm sounds like a name a spammer might use. The other Jesse Ross decides to research it, figures out I’m a real person, and lets me know.
Laughs ensue.
Oh, and the other Jesse Ross has a cool project going on. I suggest you check it out if you’re into quotations, literature, or just sweet uses of technology: http://dictary.net/