Came across a site where someone had done character profiles for an online role-playing game.

One of the characters is called Aidan Doyle.

They chose to use Johnny Depp as the character portrait.

Needless to say the resemblance to my good self is startling.  (Except For the Part About the Wife and India)

http://www.greyskymorning.org/condemnations2/index.php?title=Aidan_Doyle

Personality
He’s weird. That’s the first impression drawn off of Aidan. He has a plethora of oddities that make him a unique individual. Very passionate about history and language alike, it’s the only time he comes across as anything remotely normal. He has a Professor’s persona and a socializing persona, though at first glance those images could be easily blurred together. Then, the subtle shift in his ways of conversation become more apparent. He’s random, off the wall, nonsensical, and likes to play devil’s advocate regardless of his own stance.

Likely due to the obscene amount of traveling he’s had in his life, his personality is a melting pot of all the places he’s been. When he was thirteen, his parents took him to see the Terracotta Soldiers and he was captivated with Asian culture one way or another from that day on. When he finds something he likes, he takes it and studies everything he possibly can about it. Somewhat of a workaholic in that sense, the only thing he was ever able to make time for was his wife. Otherwise, he’s kept few friends due to his restless nature. He kept work colleagues across the board and nothing more unless the other person was that persistent or that interesting.

He’s also incredibly candid. If he’s bored, you’ll know. He gets bored very easily, too. India was one of the few places to hold his interest for as long as it did, but has now left a bitter taste in his mouth. To those he cares about, he’s… strange, but loyal in his own way. He was also a romantic for his wife, but had a bizarre way of showing it. She was his other half, and they simply worked. He always thought he’d be lost without her, and now he’s fairly certain that he is in fact lost. He can ramble about any subject, regardless of the topic, just to be a nuisance. It comes with being a history Professor, and also because it’s the only thing he can do that keeps him still for very long. He has a piss poor attention span for most things.

And they even captured my ability to absorb solar radiation:

Hot knives – Aidan can absorb ambient heat and solar radiation, and release the absorbed energy from his fingertips as semi-solid energy projections called ‘hot knives’. His hot knives are pure thermal energy, hot as the surface of the sun. He can use these blade-shaped darts of pure heat as projectiles or occasionally as slashing weapons. He has excellent control of his knives, able to cause severe damage or use them just to stun.

On the Importance of Proofreading:

Typo costs prisoner 3 extra years in Indonesia
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jcZ2Q5Y8CjbTL6BC8Swft5_9wW_QD9EVBSA80

Well, at least I have my own entry in the Internet Movie Database.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1871615/

I ended up getting an art department credit as a mission designer of all things.

The IMDB lists some computer games.  Many years ago I worked on KKND2 (don’t ask what the acronym stands for).  The game even reached number one on the bestselling charts in Germany.  I never actually played the complete game, but I’m sure it must have been ubergood…

One of the fun things about having your own web site is that you can have a look at the logs that record the search terms that people used to find your web page.

Unsurprisingly the most common search term used to reach my web site is “Aidan Doyle”.  I also get a lot of visitors who are looking for maps of Eastern Europe.  My travel entries mean that I get people searching for some odd information about Eastern Europe.  My spam filter also blocks a lot of Russian spam.

Here is a selection of some of the more unusual topics that Google & Co apparently consider me a reliable source of information on:

immortal solarizing boots (if you put this into google, I’m the number one search result)
mongolian wrestling
stone museum of ekaterinburg
pacman porn edition
markets for teen novelettes
oriental pearl tv tower ragamuffins
czars crowns photos
forbidden kung fu
russian gravestones
estonian sword
monkey bookcase
fiction stories about pandas
anime pirate dog
the economics of drug dealing
world’s drunkest person
jonathan dimbleby russia meteor

transnistria travel advice
photos of people of moldova
pirate estonia restaurant
mongolian+wedding rituals
walls of palace of versailles
lunacy of werewolves
“from milan to minsk” “get out of my face”

the last surviving – magritte
collective noun yeti
a name of a country that doesnt exist
stone monkey of south america
stone monkey t-shirt
forget everything you’ve read about vampires
nouns to describe werewolves
why do samurai blacken their teeth?
form rejection letter fiction examples
atm greenland

ukraine’s annual budgets for people
japanese pornographic video games
llama express, bolivia
sweet women minsk
estonian independence day
moldova army onion
supernatural beasties

the negligible effects of good parenting on education
shimajiro toilet training system
transsiberian january train -orchestra

A new sign has appeared at one of the beaches near my parents’ house.

Somebody obviously has a sense of humour.