CNN: “From the first elements we have, it would be a man who’s around 50 years old, who was wearing a suit and a Borsalino-style hat, who, like any client, walked inside the jewelry store, held up employees with a handgun, was then given items displayed in the window.”

Yeah, just like any client.

Two Coke facts:
1. The price of Coca-Cola remained at one nickel for seventy years.
2. In the 1950s, Coca-Cola requested that the US Mint begin printing a 7.5 cent coin.

This is part six (previously: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five) in my ongoing investigation into people online who have the same name as I do, but who are not, in fact, me. I will look at them and then consider what my life would be like if I were them. Here’s our sixth participant:

I found this person with my name from his twitter account. It only has three entries, but it provides the second picture above (which I rather like) and the fact that he’s from Maryland. Based on his Facebook profile, and an award he was nominated for in high school (for performing in Cats!), he attended the Beth Tfiloh Community School in Baltimore and graduated in 2007.

He currently attends California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, set to graduate in 2011. In the winter of 2007 he joined Phi Kappa Tau, the local chapter of the fraternity whose logo is on his shirt in the first two photos above.

The other noteworthy thing about his public Facebook profile is that’s he’s already friends with the comedian! Pretty soon all the people with my name will know each other.

Presumably he lives in or around Pomona, California, which is only about 45 miles from where I live. We’re practically neighbors.

After considering all of this, I’d still prefer to live my own life. He isn’t halfway through college yet and there’s still potential graduate school time in front of him. While I do envy his ability to pose for pictures in front of abbreviated versions of his own name, I’m happy with my current status and am not going to switch lives with him.

The search continues.

A lot of people don’t know this, but the Red Army actually invented the idea of a dance off:

WSJ: “Only one enclosed mall has opened in the U.S. since 2006: The Mall at Turtle Creek in Jonesboro, Ark.” That’s shocking.

9 or nine?

Did anyone realize that the New Madrid fault line in Missouri had three 7.8+ earthquakes in three months in 1811/1812? Was anything still standing at the end of that?

I am convinced by this spam.

from Jill Philben
to myname@myemailaddress.com
date Sun, May 10, 2009 at 2:54 PM
subject $WordFile{click.txt}

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I wish to purchase this $WordFile{service} or $WordFile{product}.

Sand Sharks are terrifying: ” Reproduction – Sand sharks only develop two embryos, one in each uterus. The strongest pups eat other embryos and any other unfertilized eggs in a process called ‘intrauterine cannibalism’ before being born.”

The Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite Act of 2009.

Girl who named Pluto dies at 90.

My head is confused. EDIT: this one’s better.

Sanjay Gupta endorses the elbow bump as a new form of hygienic greeting.