{"id":13540,"date":"2013-03-25T02:42:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T09:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13540"},"modified":"2013-03-25T02:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T09:42:55","slug":"not-me-creepily-useful-or-just-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/not-me-creepily-useful-or-just-creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"Not me! Creepily useful? Or just creepy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim<\/a> smacked me with this Google screen-grab*:<\/p>\n

\"Claire<\/a><\/p>\n

Anybody who’s ever met me or anybody who knows my famous camera-shyness knows that ain’t me<\/i>.<\/p>\n

There’s another woman out there who shares my name and does some public speaking in her professional specialty (nursing, I think). She’s probably long rued her accidental Google connections with me. My first thought was, What? Is Google now just grabbing photos of any old Claire Wolfe and pairing them with me?<\/i> I figured that was probably a photo of poor Nurse Wolfe, who would no doubt now have even more<\/i> reason to hope I get cooties and die.<\/p>\n

Then Jim pointed out what media-avoiding me missed: that’s not a photo of any<\/i> Claire Wolfe. Not Outlaw Wolfe. Not Nurse Wolfe. No. It’s Nazgul Sonia Sotomayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, much though I’d love to know how Google’s magical algorithm came up with that<\/i> astoundingly inept connection, I’m wondering even more if it might be a useful bit of misdirection.<\/p>\n

Hm. If “they” decide to ship us all off to camps, will they maybe toss Sonia in the boxcar instead of me? If they come to my house bearing Google images to ID the “domestic terrorists,” will they notice that I don’t have chipmunk cheeks or dyed black hair, say, “Sorry, M’am” and move on?<\/p>\n

You tell me. Just plain creepy? Or creepy but potentially useful?<\/p>\n

Or maybe just worth a few LOLs?<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

* (If you can’t see what I’m chuffed about I think you can click the image to “embiggen” as Joel would say. On my system, I have to click twice; once to get a thumbnail, then once to embiggenate.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim smacked me with this Google screen-grab*: Anybody who’s ever met me or anybody who knows my famous camera-shyness knows that ain’t me. There’s another woman out there who shares my name and does some public speaking in her professional specialty (nursing, I think). She’s probably long rued her accidental Google connections with me. My first thought was, What? Is Google now just grabbing photos of any old Claire Wolfe and pairing them with me? I figured that was probably a photo of poor Nurse Wolfe, who would no doubt now have even more reason to hope I get cooties…<\/p>\n

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