I just need to get this off my chest. Jose Canseco is an ass. The man is clearly lying about something, even if it’s not about who is using steroids in baseball. He can’t answer questions in a straightforward manner. He’s sketchy. He has obviously been coached by his publisher to always drop a teaser in his interviews about the next big bombshell. First I saw interviews a couple months ago about the book that hadn’t even been written yet. He wouldn’t say what was going to be in the book, just that everyone would be shocked. Now that the book is out, he says all the people who are saying he is lying will be silenced in a month when something else happens. It turns out that something else is a Pay-per-view event of him taking a polygraph test. Talk about a moneygubbing jerk! I’m sure it’s true there are plenty of baseball players using steroids. But if I have to watch Canseco sensationalize his life in one more interview, I’m going to hurl.
Google this!
Have you ever tried to “Google” someone you know? How about “Googling” yourself? It can be kinda fun to see where you pop up in cyberspace. Who’d have thought the name of this little search engine would become such a well known verb. Recently I googled my grandfather because I couldn’t remember if his name, Stanley, was spelled with and ‘e’ or without. I figured that since he is an accomplished expert in the field of chemical separations he might pop up. He did turn up on the University of Houston website where he teaches, but more interestingly I found a website dedicated to my late uncle, Melvin Stanley Marple, composed by some guy I had never heard of before. I still have no idea what the connection between this computer guy who lives in Israel and my uncle is. It’s amazing how the internet connects us. After that surprising find, I decided to google myself. First I was astonished by the number of Sarah Hubbells in this world. More to my surprise was the number of hits that actually referred to me. Mostly either from my former emloyer’s webpage or my involvment with the Water Environment Federation. But there were some definate surprises. Like one from my church’s website announcing when I had nursery duty. And one from my college alumni association. Who knows what you can find if you really dig. I googled my husband and found one reference that was actually him quoting something about using SAP in a case study of his company on the SAP website. Imagine that! News to me. Then I started googling all sorts of people. People that I used to be friends with and don’t know where they are anymore. People I would expect to have something published about them. Since my sister is in the news all the time there were thousands of references to her. I guess being a spokesperson a conservative lobbying group will do that. So give it a try. The best way to do it is to put the persons full name in quotes. Go Google yourself!