Gee Mail
Right now, in another firefox browser window, I am attempting to sign up for a gmail account (I like me the google -- they use solar energy at their corporate HQ, the Googleplex).

Naturally, gmail wants me to give them a username, so I can be whatever@gmail.com. Knowing full well that I am arriving late to the gmail party and that this would be utterly futile, I typed in jonlevin as a username, and of course, it was already taken. Presumably by some other Jon Levin out there. In addition to reminding me how common my name is, the gmail elves decided to recommend a few unique variants on my name that are as yet unclaimed by previous gmailers. The recommendations are:

- levijon
- levingeneral
- levinsweet
- levinfuture
- levincertain
- levincool

Are they kidding? If I picked any of those I'd never be able to stop mocking myself (a process not nearly as dirty as googling yourself, but far more time consuming).

I'm going to submit other username ideas. I'm thinking of naming myself after a TV sitcom character that I recall liking when I was a kid. Let's check the availability...

It was available. So, for better or worse, I'm now officially doctorjonnyfever@gmail.com. And should Google actually succeed in conquering all of planet earth, at least I won't be totally left in the dust.