google this...

Come on. Admit it...you've googled your name before. And if you hadn't, I bet you are right now. It's fun to see if your name comes up and if so, what comes up about you. It's also neat to see what famous people you may share a name with. Due to the commonality of my name, I am always relegated to the latter. I think it's cool to have the same name as some well-known people, but I would think it was cooler if info came up about me when I googled my name. Sometimes, I wish I had a more unique name.

When I was younger, there was another Michael Brown that went to the same doctor with the same birthday (he was two years younger). Whenever I call companies, it takes so much info for them to find my account. I wrote a blog post before about why I'm such a big Red Sox fan. A pitcher for the Red Sox pitched a no-hitter when I was 1 day old. His name: Michael Brown. Michael Brown was the irresponsible director of FEMA who mishandled Hurricane Katina. Point is, my name is so common. I don't even show up when I type in "Pastor Mike Brown."

If I narrow my search to only folks with the name Michael Alan Brown, I still don't make the cut. Apparently there is martial artist with the same name. He's a recognized master of the Ching Yi Kung Fu System. I bet he could kick my butt.

Anyway, I decided to google my daughter. There are other people with the name Genevieve Brown, but nobody of any real significance. But when I narrowed the search to her full name: Genevieve Ruth Brown, I discovered something cool. The first link that shows up is the link to my blog post about her birth from Sunday, January 23. I guess we've given her a unique enough name.

I think googling names is intriguing. And I'm impressed by the self-control of anyone who reads this and does not google his/her own name. That would be like not thinking of a pink elephant while reading this sentence. You know you can't prevent it. It's inevitable. Go ahead, try it out. Let me know what you discover.