{"id":7219,"date":"2006-10-24T23:00:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/10\/24\/how-many-of-you\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:54","slug":"how-many-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/10\/24\/how-many-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"how many of you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This posting is not a sad lament over the dwindling number of visitors we’ve been having at f\/k\/a<\/em> since we started our punditry hiatus in early June. (But, it could be, and it’s our own fault.) Moreover, it’s not even a pat on your Editor’s back for the thousands (really) of visitors who stopped by his new weblog shlep<\/em> today<\/a>, to read a post about an online newspaper that is trying to deny its readers their right to Fair Use of copyrighted material.\u00a0 [Hint<\/em> to Matt Morden on how to get lots of visitors: have the #2 most popular weblog in the world link to your post, as Boing Boing<\/a><\/em> did today for shlep<\/em>.\u00a0 Surprised me, too.]<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"QuestionMarkKey\" Instead, the Gang wanted to tell you about the website HowManyOfMe<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.com, which purports to know how many people have your (or anyone’s) name.\u00a0\u00a0 HowMany does warn you that they are using Census Bureau data and people with rare names have been left out, for privacy reasons.\u00a0 Therefore, “19% of people will have either one or both names missing from the list” — resulting in zero results being found for those individuals.\u00a0 If you thought it would mostly be those youngsters with aberrant name spellings and novel monikers who would be in that 19% group, you’d probably be right.\u00a0 But, after just a few examples tonight, I discovered that haiku writers are probably also over-represented in the Zero Names Group — at least, our Honored Guests are.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, I checked myself first, and “There are 10 people in the U.S. named David Giacalone.”\u00a0 That number seems high.\u00a0 Next, I learned that the statistics suggest “There are 8 people in the U.S. named Edward Markowski.”<\/p>\n

Looking for a bigger number, I put in “John Stevenson” and was not at all surprised to see: “There are 1,526 people in the U.S. named John Stevenson.”\u00a0\u00a0 And, “There is 1 person in the U.S. named Yu Chang” seemed about right.\u00a0 Then, things got interesting.\u00a0 According to HowManyOfMe<\/em>:<\/p>\n

— There are 0 people in the U.S. named Laryalee Fraser, as (according to the uncloaked census data) “There are 0 people in the U.S. with the first name Laryalee.”
\n— There are 0 people in the U.S. with the last name Gurga, so “There are 0 people in the U.S. named Lee Gurga.”
\n— There are 0 people in the U.S. named Roberta Beary, because “neither was common enough to make it likely that someone in the U.S. has that name.”
\n— There are 0 people in the U.S. with the last name Kacian. There are 0 people in the U.S. named Jim Kacian.
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rest of you out there will have to check out your own names, as I’ve managed to fritter away enough time on this frivolous project already this evening (with Game 3 of the World Series on the tv behind me).\u00a0 To make it up to you, here are some topic-relevant haiku and senryu:<\/p>\n

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nameless,
\nthis worm downwind
\nfrom countless stars<\/p>\n

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. . . . . . . by andrew riutta<\/a>
\nSimply Haiku<\/em> (Summer 2005, vol. 3:2)
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fund drive
\nthe ivy covered building
\nhas a new name<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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another spring
\nthe nameless shoot
\nstill nameless<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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. . . . . . . . .\u00a0 by Yu Chang<\/a>\u00a0
\n“fund drive”\u00a0 Upstate Dim Sum (2002\/II)
\n\u00a0“another spring” The Heron’s Nest (Sept. 2005)<\/p>\n

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the shelter of a tree\u2014
\nneither of us knows
\nthe other’s name<\/p>\n

\u00a0
\nno sign
\nwhere two roads meet
\niris blooms<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

. . . . .\u00a0 by paul m<\/a>\u00a0
\n“shelter” –\u00a0 finding the way (Press Here, 2002)
\n“no sign”\u00a0\u00a0 the heron’s nest
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

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winter night
\na stranger in the laundromat
\nasks my name<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

. . . . .\u00a0 by pamela miller ness<\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0 haiku spirit 20<\/p>\n

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one sentence from the end
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a pretty nurse
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 calls my name<\/p>\n

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early thaw…
\nfor a moment
\nmother remembers my name<\/p>\n

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. . . . . . by ed markowski\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This posting is not a sad lament over the dwindling number of visitors we’ve been having at f\/k\/a since we started our punditry hiatus in early June. (But, it could be, and it’s our own fault.) Moreover, it’s not even a pat on your Editor’s back for the thousands (really) of visitors who stopped by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1Sr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12618,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/12618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}