Stephen Dembo, where are you???
While trolling through del.icio.us I encountered How Many of Me? Of course, I typed in my name and discovered that according to the site, there’s only one other person in the US named Stephen Dembo! So I’d like to extend an open invitation to him. Mr. Dembo, if you can make it to the Chicago area, I will gladly take you out for a pizza with your choice of toppings. I’d really like to get a group photo of ALL the Stephen Dembo’s together (both of us).
Interestingly, my wife is completely unique and my son doesn’t even exist!
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[...] Thist post has been a long time coming, as I stumbled upon the How Many of Me website a few months back, but haven’t had any ideas of how to use it in the classroom until Steve Dembo wrote about it yesterday, and jogged my memory. Using U.S. census data, you can search for other people with your same first and last names. For example, a search for James Bond yields 1,054 double-o agents running loose around America. How Many of Me will also tell you how many others in the U.S. share just your first name or last name, so you can see how popular, or unpopular, your namesake happens to be. While there are over 117,000 people that share my first name, because of the low occurance of my last name (only 1500), there’s only one person in the country named Ben Rimes; me! [...]
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