The last time I Online Searched myself was maybe 6 years ago.
There was the usual stuff, from blog posts, comments left on others blogs, and on message boards, mostly on genealogy websites, mentions of me in the blog posts of others, and there was stuff that I had no idea could be found.....
It was the first time I learned there were sites that offered access to info I though was private, such as addresses, phone numbers, credit history, and who knows what else, for free, or a fee, and I could do nothing about it.
Nothing to be ashamed of, but still...
Well, on Nov. 20th, I decided to Google myself, and the results were mostly what I expected, but with quite a few wonderful, intriguing, surprises.
Google doesn't know everything, though.
Many of the things I remember from before didn't show up this time.
However, Google turned up lots of new stuff simply because it had been put online, by someone, in the intervening years.
My LinkedIn profile showed up, some blog posts going back to 2002, and my first blog, genealogy message board posts, and a few of those damn info sites, as well as many new things.
When I Googled Kiril Kundurazieff I got 289 results.
When I Googled Kiril Giorgio Kundurazieff (The name on my Birth Certificate) I got 163 results.
When I Googled Kiril George Kundurazieff I got 156 results.
So, what did I find?
1. Google claimed that Alumnisite.com had an active page for my Junior High School...
Palomares Junior High School Alumni - Pomona, California1970-1974, Kiril Kundurazieff 1972-1974. Tim Lambert 1972-1974, John Mangrich 1972-1974, Scott Miller 1972-1974. Anthony Moses 1970-1974....
Yet, when I went to the link all I got was the school page, & "There are currently no alumni listed for Palomares Junior High School, be the first to add your name". ;-D
2. Michigan State University Libraries - Special Collections Division
Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection: "New Cataloging and Indexing Daily Log December 2007"
"Hunt & Peck" 2 p. in Sable, no. 3 (May 1988). -- Letters to the editor from Dale Coe, Kiril Kundurazieff, Rigval Reza, William T. Simpson, and Norma J. McQuaid. -- Call no.: PN6728.5.F5S3no.3
From the 70's to the mid-90's I was an avid Comic Book reader, and collector, with a very eclectic taste, and wrote lots of Letters to the Editor, with well over 60 seeing print.
This was just one of 3 Google turned up. ;-D
3. Comics.org website:
Indexer Notes - Letters from readers: William Waldman, Johny Q., Kiril Kundurazieff, Jeff Mitchell, Fred L. Cain, Ann C.H. Brachwitz, David Metz, Mark Billian, Marc Ouellette, Nicholas J. Taylor and Roger D. Case.
4. Sir Real's Underground Comix Classix Website
Death Rattle Comic V. 2 #12 (1987) - S. Keister - PG.32(letter), S.E. Goodrich - 32(letter), Kiril Kundurazieff - 32(letter)...
There are 8 other letter writers mentioned.
5. THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1990 - P. J. O'Rourke: SHOOT THE WOUNDED -
The first annual update of the Joe McCarthy Memorial New Enemies List! Well, fellow witch hunters, a lot has happened since we began our New Enemies List in July 1989.
Freedom has come to Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union has shriveled as a world power, the people of Nicaragua have given Danny Ortega the Order of the Boot, and all because of us and our brave revival of the Red Scare. As a result of our noble crusade, Communists are now just another small, halfbaked cult who put out an occasional newsletter (the
While Liberals were wondering "Who ya gonna pick on now?"....I was mentioned in the venerable American Speckled Tater (What I used to jokingly call it!) by the one, & only, P. J. O' Rourke! ;-D
And I had no idea this had even happened!
As the opinionated P. J. O'Rourke continued, at the time:
"The answer to their question of who we're going to pick onnow is—them. Let's whoop on the useful idiots, the moral equivalentizers, the peace scum, the social justice hairballs, and see who sang the Marxist tune and expected us not to mind because they had the lyrics wrong. You're next, you south-ends-of-an-NEA-grant-headednorth, you."
On the 7h, and last, page of this Round-Up, is a box with a long list of maybe about 75 names...
Tailgunner Joe's Honor Guard:
Thanks also go out to these wide awake patriots, who contributed additional
targets of ridicule to our rapidly growing data bank:
Saul David, Van Nuys, CA; Julius Blumenthal, Los Olivos, CA; Gary Stark, La Palma, CA; Charles Perry, Sylmar, CA; Kiril Kundurazieff, Pomona, CA....
I shelled out $2.95 to discover this, tonite, and while I have no memory of what I wrote that got me chosen, I am tickled to death, and extremely honored to be a member of the "Honor Guard". ;-D
I was still a Reagan Democrat, at the time, but soon became a Clintonista.
Alas, if only I'd known about THIS!
Who knows how different the 90's would have been for me, hee, hee! ;-D
6. The Well is an old, and remarkable, online Community, and resource, that goes back to well beyond the Dawn of the Internet.
So how in the hell did I manage to get a mention there?
As long time readers of my blogging know I once had something published in a Star Trek Fanzine in the late 80's, and this piece was chosen for publication in a Best of...Book in 1990 ( I was not paid for either, sad to say. ).
On The Well someone collected what they called A "Complete Starfleet Library" by year.
Among those books from 1990 that are cataloged is Best of Trek 15, and among the contents of the book...
Confessions of a Trekaholic by Kiril Kundurazeiff
Yes, as you can see on my copy of the book...they misspelled my name. ;-D
7. In the aftermath of the recent elections of 2010 something I wrote in a Letter to the LA Times, published on June 14, 1999, is quite interesting. ;-D
Another election has come and gone. When is everyone going to realize it's not who won or lost but how many didn't even bother to play the game. The people have spoken, yet again nobody is listening.
KIRIL KUNDURAZIEFF - Pomona
Disillusioned by Ol' Bill & Hillary, not to mention AlGore, and Ca. Political Shenanigans, I was just beginning to see the light. ;-D
8. I got a computer in 1998, and by the summer I was already on various online message boards. ;-D
One such message board was bicycling related.
A Yahoo Group called the Foothill Bicycle Initiative, begun in August 1998.
Google led me to a particular part of their archive from the summer of 1999.
On this page are the first 4 messages by me: #'s 306, 311, 316, 317, plus replies to me from others.
#311 was a long, and angry, essay by me about how Club Rides don't all treat slow riders the same, and about my experience with one particular ride, and 316, and 317, were my responses to the replies of others to that essay. ;-D
You can scroll backwards, and forwards, and no doubt find other posts of mine until I left the group sometime in 2001, I think. ;-D
As of Sept. 30th, 2010, there have been 2052 messages left on that board. ;-D
I had no idea it was still chugging along (Though just barely, it seems.)!
To see my original caabb at earthlink e-mail addy was a hoot! ;-D
9. In Jan. 2002 the LA Times did a piece on how the local transit agency, MTA, was adding "Electric Scooters, Bicycles to Its Fleet".
My published response to that was as follows:
OK, let me get this straight. The MTA wants to spend taxpayer money to provide folks too lazy to walk a few blocks, or ride a regular human-powered bike, with electric transportation?
If the MTA did more to promote its bikes on buses and Metrorail programs, especially by allowing bicyclists on the rail lines at all hours and without the hassle of a permit, it would be doing something a lot more constructive to ease parking congestion on our streets, not to mention at transit stations and park-and-ride lots.
Hee, hee! ;-D
10. In February 2004 my most famous, or Infamous, depending on your point of view, Letter to the Editor appeared...In the OC Weekly. ;-D
HE'S SCREWED
Editor's Note: The following letter is in response to our Feb. 6 Letters page in which we responded to a missive from Donna Locke of "Tennesseans for Immigration Reform" with: "Anyway, good luck with your big push for immigration reform. I imagine you have your hands full with all those fucking Kentuckians sneaking over the borders."
My mother was a fucking Kentuckian, my grandmother was a fucking Kentuckian, and her parents and grandparents were fucking Kentuckians. We folks with roots in Kentucky take our fucking seriously, and to insinuate that any of us would even CONSIDER immigrating to the backwater of Tennessee is fightin' words! My mother immigrated to California, and married an immigrant from Macedonia and her brothers immigrated first to California, and then, in one case, to Colorado, before settling in Arizona. I am quite proud of my fucking ancestors, though the ones from Indiana are proving, through research, to have been a major pain in the ass.
11. The Minutes of the February 7, 2005 City Council Meeting of the City of Costa Mesa, Ca., are online, in PDF format.
Among those expressing their opinion, in the Public Comment portion of the evening festivities, was yours truly:
Kiril Kundurazieff, Costa Mesa, regarding the Historical Society tour
of the City, suggested a map with the bicycle routes be included and encouraged citizens to ride their bicycles.
Hee, hee! ;-D
I much later tried to plug a 25 mile route around the city that I would create, and blog about, on my bike blog, but to no avail. ;-D
12. On the blog of the NY City Independent Media Center, one fine day in May 2005, they plugged an event involving Critical Mass, an anarchist forum, and anti-nuke rally, at Tompkins square park.
Yours Truly, The Cycling Dude, laid right into them in a comment 6 days later. ;-D
I mean, REALLY THINK....
I'm all for Freedom of Speech, and Assembly, when done in a peacable, non-threatening manner and, most importantly, legally.
And I think bad cops should be punished, as do most cops of my acquaintance.
However, isn't it possible that the reason the city is so focused on CM is that far too often those attending, and even sponsoring, such events, in the USA, and around the world, have agendas far different than the supposed "promoting sustainable environmental solutions" that ordinary "real cyclists" think they are attending these rides to promote?
Read the whole thing. ;-D
13. In August 2005 I was among those interviewed by a reporter for the local Daily Pilot Newspaper, by the name of Elia Powers, for a piece he called "Every Blog Has its Day".
And so the writer of Huntingport Mesa's #1 Blog, as I billed my first blog, became briefly famous. ;-D
14. In late 2007, and early 2008, the City of Costa Mesa Planning Dept. was considering an all-purpose trail called the Paulorino Bike Trail, and I was among the dew who wrote in support, as this PDF Document shows.
15. Want one of the reasons why I retired The Cycling Dude Blog, a few months ago, after 8+ years?
Extanz.com did a study, back in the spring, that says a lot about the Top Bike Blogs in the world, showing why I was never among them, and never could be.
In the comments, a friend, and fellow Bike Blogger, Charles Bingham, of Alaska, expressed disappointment at my not being on the list: "Cycling Dude is worth checking out, if for nothing more than the list of links down the right column of the page."
Thank you, Charles, for caring, when few others did. ;-D
16. On November 8th, 2010 the Planning Commision folks, in Costa Mesa, got together to discuss a "Bicycle Connection between the Santa Ana River, and the Upper Newport Bay.
A PDF document dated October 28, 2010, again shares all the letters from 2007 & 2008, mentioned above. ;-D
17. I'm one of over 3000 cyclists to "Pledge to Stop at Red" lights. ;-D
18. How about this? I'm listed on Listorious.com, and my Tweets are there, too!
Why didn't someone tell ME? ;-D
Seems no-one gives a rats ass because...
Kiril Kundurazieff hasn't been interviewed yet!
and they are encouraging people to get up the nerve and ask me a question, already! ;-D
And last, and maybe even least...According to Faxo.com...
Mad_Macedonian is the 661,309th most popular Twit on Twitter! ;-D
Nikita_TwitPuss is somewhere in the 800,000's, I just couldn't pin it down, hee, hee! ;-D
Hey, look on the bright side!
At least we are among the Top 1 Million!
Whoo Hoo!!! ;-D
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