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Brian pulled out of the vault this online conversation we had several years ago. This is it in its entirety; nothing preceded it. Please note that Brian's "heavy boxes" screen name predated the naming of my band by years.

heavy boxes (12:18:30 AM): boomer esiason.
RL Steinbeck (12:18:52 AM): mother goose and grimm
heavy boxes (12:19:13 AM): kirby pucket
RL Steinbeck (12:19:47 AM): mavis beacon
heavy boxes (12:20:24 AM): foghorn leghorn
RL Steinbeck (12:21:18 AM): maniac mcgee
heavy boxes (12:21:33 AM): tommyknockers
RL Steinbeck (12:22:29 AM): robert plant
heavy boxes (12:22:39 AM): judge judy
RL Steinbeck (12:22:50 AM): the big bopper
heavy boxes (12:22:55 AM): dennis leary
RL Steinbeck (12:23:24 AM): desmond tutu
heavy boxes (12:24:11 AM): boutros boutros ghali
RL Steinbeck (12:25:22 AM): kato kaelin
heavy boxes (12:25:37 AM): trajan
RL Steinbeck (12:26:32 AM): julia louis dreyfuss
heavy boxes (12:31:51 AM): niels bohr
RL Steinbeck (12:32:29 AM): marie curie
heavy boxes (12:32:57 AM): benvolio
RL Steinbeck (12:33:55 AM): sergeant slaughte
RL Steinbeck (12:33:56 AM): r
heavy boxes (12:34:07 AM): judy dench
RL Steinbeck (12:34:18 AM): candide
heavy boxes (12:34:42 AM): gustave flaubert
RL Steinbeck (12:36:41 AM): ruff mcgruff
heavy boxes (12:36:59 AM): tintoretto
RL Steinbeck (12:38:17 AM): dave berry
heavy boxes (12:38:45 AM): john rocker
RL Steinbeck (12:39:21 AM): cuba gooding Sr.
heavy boxes (12:39:57 AM): calvin coolidge
RL Steinbeck (12:40:24 AM): engelbert humperdinck
heavy boxes (12:40:34 AM): matthew lesko
RL Steinbeck (12:40:58 AM): doctor jekyll
heavy boxes (12:41:26 AM): udo kier
RL Steinbeck (12:42:06 AM): mick ronson
heavy boxes (12:42:27 AM): chupacabra
RL Steinbeck (12:42:46 AM): erroll flynn
heavy boxes (12:43:14 AM): myrna loy
RL Steinbeck (12:43:26 AM): eddie & jobo
heavy boxes (12:43:57 AM): charo
RL Steinbeck (12:45:54 AM): madame tussaud
heavy boxes (12:47:15 AM): buddy glass
RL Steinbeck (12:48:05 AM): colonel mustard
heavy boxes (12:49:10 AM): dominique dawes
RL Steinbeck (12:49:45 AM): shawn kemp
heavy boxes (12:50:11 AM): bobby thigpen
RL Steinbeck (12:50:24 AM): phil lesh
heavy boxes (12:51:21 AM): wynonna judd
RL Steinbeck (12:51:42 AM): winslow homer
heavy boxes (12:53:02 AM): cornelius cardew
RL Steinbeck (12:54:44 AM): connie chung
heavy boxes (12:55:02 AM): benjamin banneker
RL Steinbeck (12:56:42 AM): tom clancy
heavy boxes (12:58:05 AM): bob "butterbean" love
RL Steinbeck (12:59:36 AM): my cousin vinnie
heavy boxes (1:01:59 AM): bastion booger
RL Steinbeck (1:11:38 AM): mark mcgrath
heavy boxes (1:12:33 AM): pancho villa
RL Steinbeck (1:12:44 AM): betsy ross
heavy boxes (1:12:56 AM): broomhilda
RL Steinbeck (1:13:13 AM): kangaroo jack
heavy boxes (1:13:24 AM): sam kinison
RL Steinbeck (1:14:12 AM): gene krupa
heavy boxes (1:14:23 AM): dan and ada rice
RL Steinbeck (1:18:06 AM): malcolm jamal warner
heavy boxes (1:18:32 AM): macgyver
RL Steinbeck (1:18:48 AM): sister wendy
heavy boxes (1:19:10 AM): lonnie anderson
RL Steinbeck (1:19:48 AM): rupert everett
heavy boxes (1:20:04 AM): rowdy roddy piper
RL Steinbeck (1:22:11 AM): sarah jessica parker
heavy boxes (1:22:45 AM): marcus garvey
RL Steinbeck (1:23:21 AM): lance bass
heavy boxes (1:24:00 AM): rod argent
RL Steinbeck (1:24:44 AM): lawrence fishburne
heavy boxes (1:25:19 AM): william carlos williams
RL Steinbeck (1:25:53 AM): lester bangs
heavy boxes (1:26:45 AM): the banger sisters (susan sarandon and goldie hawn)
RL Steinbeck (1:27:57 AM): sancho panza
heavy boxes (1:28:27 AM): theodore roetke
RL Steinbeck (1:29:07 AM): glen anthony
heavy boxes (1:31:30 AM): posh spice
RL Steinbeck (1:31:39 AM): ginger baker
heavy boxes (1:32:32 AM): glenn gould
RL Steinbeck (1:33:56 AM): koko taylor
heavy boxes (1:34:16 AM): kiki shepard
RL Steinbeck (1:36:00 AM): morgan fairchild
heavy boxes (1:36:56 AM): sherman alexie
RL Steinbeck (1:38:04 AM): abner doubleday
heavy boxes (1:38:23 AM): horace greeley
RL Steinbeck (1:39:24 AM): eddie cantor
heavy boxes (1:41:16 AM): jake lloyd
RL Steinbeck (1:42:19 AM): sheryl swoopes
heavy boxes (1:43:04 AM): steve shelley
heavy boxes (1:44:35 AM): alright, im out
heavy boxes (1:44:37 AM): goodnight
RL Steinbeck (1:44:39 AM): se ya
RL Steinbeck (1:44:41 AM): e

Personas is a project by Aaron Zinman, a student in the Sociable Media Group at MIT, which turns your name into data-art by mining the Internet for mentions of it and visualizing the patterns found.

Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. It allows you to see how the machine is working, revealing the computer's uncanny insights and inadvertent errors such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world where digital histories are as important - if not more important - than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant - for now. Fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, and this kind of data is indispensable but far from infallible.

My name doesn't yield a lot of results, but what it does come up with is a little disturbing:

[personas, via lifehacker]

From now on, all my e-mails will include:

• stationery
• animated GIFs
• the following valediction:

Cheers,

Evan Chung, B.A.

- Sent from my iPhone