I went to the WYSIWYG talent show last week to see Alizinha perform in “Psychos I Have Dated or Worked for (or Both) . . .” She told a great internet dating story, which reminded me of my own psycho internet dating story, but we’ll get into that some other time. Chris Hampton, who introduced everyone that evening, used Googlism to create bio paragraphs about each performer. I hadn’t heard of Googlisms before, but essentially you type your name into it, and it comes up with a list of sentences about you, based somehow on Google’s algorithm. Of course I had to run home and plug in my name. I have to admit that the list that came up paints a fairly accurate description of me:
Laren is in a better mood another day
Laren is out to kill him
Laren is my friend
Laren is a writer for objectivism today
Laren is situated in an area of great natural beauty in the east of holland
Laren is not the editorial columnist for the new york daily news
Laren is trying to do something about that
Laren is a beautiful young woman
Laren is a shit
Laren is just really bad in group situations
Laren is highly intelligent
Laren is so passionate about what she wanted to do
Laren is thinking about something
Laren is hot
Laren is an original character
and, one of my favorites:
Laren is a restaurant i can recommend to anybody
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“Laren is hot.”
Yeah, baby! Googlisms are fun, but you know you’ve really “made it” when you can Googlism your whole name and stuff actually comes up. I’m not there yet, but working on it.
And I still need to hear your psycho story!
“Laren is hot.”
Yeah, baby! Googlisms are fun, but you know you’ve really “made it” when you can Googlism your whole name and stuff actually comes up. I’m not there yet, but working on it.
And I still need to hear your psycho story!
Ah, fame is elusive. . .
And I promise to tell the psycho story, either here or in person, at some point soon. Suffice to say that after that story plus endless annoying emails, I think I am very, very done with my days of internet dating. Then again, it could be a very long winter, so I reserve the right to change my mind. . .
Ah, fame is elusive. . .
And I promise to tell the psycho story, either here or in person, at some point soon. Suffice to say that after that story plus endless annoying emails, I think I am very, very done with my days of internet dating. Then again, it could be a very long winter, so I reserve the right to change my mind. . .