Huh.
You know how sometimes you'll come across someone that has the same birthday as you and there's this lull in the conversation where you wonder if you should have some sort of connection with the other person? I just had that, only different.
I just met another Rob Chambers. Sort of.
A few years ago, I got an email from someone named Rob Chambers that wanted to buy my domain name. At the time, I was trying to break into editorial cartooning and needed (I thought) a domain name of my name so as to make myself better known to publishers. I thanked my fellow RC for the interest, but no thank you.
When I told my wife about it, she wondered who it could be. I joked that it might be Robert E. Chambers, Jr., the Preppy Murderer. She told me I was sick. I then said, "Ehh, it's probably a lawyer that wants to hire some 16 year-old to code a webpage for him because he hears it's all the rage these days with the younger people."
Then, out of the blue, I said, "It might be that guy at Microsoft that works on voice-recognition technology." How did I know of him? Well, like a lot of people, I Google my own name every once in a while, and this guy pops up a lot. I was working for a non-profit at the time that did closed-captioning by doing something called Voice writing, using an voice-recognition application called ViaVoice to create caption text files, so it would have been odd if this were that guy.
Turns out, yep, it was that guy. I got an email from him today. Seems like a pretty cool guy. Life's weird. :)
Take care,
~Rob
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