The James Lin conjecture
My claim: a set of 2000 people has a greater than 50% probability of having someone else with my name.
VMware recently hired someone else named “James Lin”. Today I received four separate emails for him. I wonder if he’s receiving any of mine. Maybe he can fix some of my bugs.
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What’s your cell phone #? I keep calling the other James Lin… ha ha, just kidding. I have a number that showed up as “unavailable”… can’t call someone back if I dont have a number.
Oh yeah, and I lost my phone a month ago so any phone numbers I used to have went kaput.
— karen @ July 20, 2007, 5:31 am (PT)
Heh. Yeah, there was someone benedict ho at stanford, whose e-mail was benho@stanford.edu and so I got a lot of his e-mails and vice versa. I have recently been getting his phone calls.
Most annoyingly, I have been getting phone calls (at least 20 or 30) from a belligerant loan collection agency because someone named benjamin ho defaulted on their student loans in 2004.
And when I tell them I’m not the Benjamin Ho they are looking for, they get more belligerant, saying they did a credit check and confirmed it is me (I don’t know how given they have the wrong social security number and birthdate), and that I should stop lying and take some responsibility.
— ben @ August 2, 2007, 8:02 am (PT)