How often do you google yourself? Other than for reasons for plain vanity, I think it important to do it often enough to ensure your online identity isn't hijacked. Since I have multiple online aliases, some of which I share with others, I have an automatic system that googles my online avatars every once in a while, reporting any "anomalies".
Imagine my surprise when I found that I had, unbeknownst to myself, given some lame-ass kissing advice on an eHarmony forum. After several email messages to the moderator, I decided to take matters into my own hands and just made a half-decent post myself, pointing out that I if I were to post, I'd have posted something that at least took a few minutes for me to pen, like the poem below:
The kiss you can remember
Is not a real kiss
Just as the circle you can see
Is not a true circle
The perfect kiss is as pleasant dream
Pure experience untainted
By awful reality of tangibles
That everywhere surrounds us
You must emerge from it
With but vague recall
Too fleeting to capture
Too slippery to grasp
Too pristine to bind
By fetters of finite memory
You will remember starting
But should you bethink anything after
Then, my friend, I'm afraid
You must try again
And again
Until mindlessness becomes you
Copyright (c) 2008, Anand Venkataraman
I find it interesting that much bandwidth is spent describing what is a purely experiential thing. Indeed, words mean nothing here, and it is an irony of life that we often waste the most words in talking precisely about things over which words are so poignantly powerless!"