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I dined at a fine dining restaurant in the Bay area that had obviously Googled my name in advance, and found a semi-famous person who shares my name. As I arriv
by randerson 1y ago
I dined at a fine dining restaurant in the Bay area that had obviously Googled my name in advance, and found a semi-famous person who shares my name. As I arrived the maitre'd said some things that made no sense, like she hoped the conference I was in town for was going well. But she looked visibly confused, and as a waiter walked me to my table I could see them huddling and glancing at me. Later on I searched and found that my namesake was in fact in town.
- randomcarbloke 1y agohash collision
- xhkkffbf 1y agoHah....but these kind of places serve something better than hash.
- interestica 1y agoSounds like a (fusion) menu item. https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-how-to-make-the-best-potato-hash https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-how-to-make-the-bes...
- derwiki 1y agoGreat idea! I will now be Michael Bolton for the purposes of restaurant reservations.
- bz_bz_bz 1y agohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7R9M-Taik https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7R9M-Taik
- m463 1y agoThe endgame is that you get a custom menu with customized prices.
- pyuser583 1y agoI have a name that’s completely unique, except for some well known European scholar in a highly specialized field of medicine. One day the scholar visted my city to give a lecture, and I seriously considered attending and causing some type of trouble. But whatever fun I would have it’s not worth sitting through a lecture on some chemical process in the lower blah blah blah blah.
- pfannkuchen 1y agoAre you probably related then? Or is it just that your first name is extremely unique?
- pyuser583 1y agoMy first name is religious - so most people have heard it - but it’s almost never given anymore. Kind of like “Methuselah.” My last name is historically Mediterranean, but has become extinct in its place of origin. However some 20th century spelling reforms resulted in Germans and Scandinavians having identically spelled last names. This makes it very hard to identify the ethnicity of someone who has it. Very unlikely we are related.
- pfannkuchen 1y agoI appreciate your response, it is satisfyingly thorough.