Something wakes in us where there's a change in Raquel's tag.

My high school friends are pretty ungoogleable, except for the Telegraph reporter and the Tantric sex teacher (she changed her last name, but I still found her). The friends I made during college are everywhere -- in fact, for many of them it's simpler to IMDB than to google. God bless the theatre department.

Huh...for the first time ever you guys are making me want to google people.

Apparently, we were all slackers, because I'm having a hard time finding anyone.

I have a hard time finding people, too. If I still remember how to spell their name, it's too common for Google to really work. Or else I get several hits, but none that are obviously the same person I'm thinking of. I'm impressed that so many of you find people so easily -- I did about ten searches, and found three people.

Plus, more people don't really exist online than I would expect. My dad only turns up once, and I can't find my mom or brother at all.

I'm just impressed with vw for getting this far with the curtains. Every time I've bought fabric to make curtains, it's stayed in its native fabric form forever. Usually not even hung up. Usually in the shopping bag. And yeah, I've done this more than once. So by "defeat" you clearly mean something more like "victory."

Hee! Well, there will be complete victory. It's just gonna be a week later than I had hoped.

Timelies. We have snow.

I know where most of the people I went to high school with are - still in Fairbanks. If not, the grapevine still goes through my mom. My first boyfriend is somewhere in the central Illinois/Missouri/Kentucky region, still playing trombone. A good friend died of cancer at the age of 24. Someone else is a producer for E!

College, I don't even need to look that far. I get an alumni magazine every quarter. I don't even care about any of those people, yet I look. Sigh.

My high school friends are pretty ungoogleable

If I still remember how to spell their name, it's too common for Google to really work

Same here. We had a lot of really common Irish last names -- Boyle, Murphy, etc. And a lot of common first names, too -- Jean, Tim, John. A boring lot, come to think of it.

I hadn't tried Googling anyone in my family. Hmmm.

I hadn't tried Googling anyone in my family. Hmmm.

I did another Google on my mom's maiden name, and she does turn up, on a "Where are they now?" page for her high school's alumni group. Which I think is kind of funny, and I should email her the link.

But my brother, who is a pretty online-y sort? Not a trace.

I googled my family. My dad's relatively hard to find (most of his cites are Jamaican papers, either writing or being reported on) because his first and last names are coincidentally often found together. But I found the announcement of my mother's promotion to professor last year! She's even cooler than I thought, and all over the place. My sister, similarly so.

In fact, they're all more googleable than I am.

Which is just fine by me.

I don't think my family has much of a web-presence. There is the Coffee Roastery run by my cousin and her husband. [link]