Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

I occasionally look myself up- real name and all of my (very few ) online aliases- on the Internet to see what might turn up in a background check by a potential employer or law enforcement. Forewarned is forearmed.

Most of what I’ve found was pretty innocuous, but there’s a couple things I’m glad I found so I could easily address them. One was an article detailing the indictment of someone who was charged with vehicular homicide. Fortunately, I’m clearly older.

The other big one ( ) was a link to a profile sharing my name that led to the ancc holder’s uncensored, explicit photo gallery for a gay hookup site in Southeast Asia. Proving I have nothing to do with it would be both challenging and easy. Easy because I don’t resemble any of the pictures in the gallery. Challenging because there were no pictures of the account owner’s face.

I'm kind of lucky. The first person to show up, with the same name as me, is a Scottish Baron/Lord, also far older than me. When I do show up it's a few articles I've written, some social media stuff that is quite innocuous or presents me in a fairly good light, or my photography credits. I'm from a fairly small clan, so not many with the same name as me, but oddly enough 3 other people within my org that have the same last name(?).

 

[Scribe]

Admin fees make up most of the increase. Having spoken with the top engineers from China and India, they also say Americans don't stand a chance. The education system is too broken at the primary level.

Yeah, imagine that. A reduction in focus on the hard skills, leaving NA (Canada is no better in my experience) unable to really compete? Shocking.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I just looked myself up... Nothing on me in the first ten pages of me, although apparently a fair number of me are dead, lol. Fortunately, my name is fairly common in Ireland, though not nearly as much in the US.
Adding the state I live in to the search turns up my address and my immediate family, but nothing I've ever posted.

 

[dragoner]

Yeah, imagine that. A reduction in focus on the hard skills, leaving NA (Canada is no better in my experience) unable to really compete? Shocking.

One of my friends was EE chair at Purdue, he said similar, and it isn't just about money, there are only a limited amount of slots in a program. For graduate degrees, tuition is generally waived anyways because they TA or do research. If you can't get into, or finish a four year undergrad program, they are going to pick someone who they think is. I was lucky going to school because with over 1200 on my SAT's I was above the cutoff.

 

[Gradine]

Never underestimate the absolute next-level degree of shade that is the Turner Classic Movie live air lineup during the State of the Union Address

 

[payn]

Never underestimate the absolute next-level degree of shade that is the Turner Classic Movie live air lineup during the State of the Union Address

I hear they are gonna need a real long one this year.

 

[Thomas Shey]

It's plausible that tuition becoming so expensive that practically no one can afford it without scholarships, grants, or loans (or other financial aid) has put a lot of people in the position of needing their college education (or at least the piece of paper they get at the end of it) to matter more to potential employers than it really should.

Or sometimes more than it really can.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Regarding looking up your name--mine is both short enough and not obscure enough, that barring a qualification (say, adding "rpg" to the search) mine is waaay too far down the search list to matter.

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah, imagine that. A reduction in focus on the hard skills, leaving NA (Canada is no better in my experience) unable to really compete? Shocking.

Seven years after an instant 10% cut to tuition, followed by a tuition freeze, then 3% a year reductions in budget we're finally seeing a little light.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Never underestimate the absolute next-level degree of shade that is the Turner Classic Movie live air lineup during the State of the Union Address

OK, just looked it up. Their initial movie is hilariously pointed.