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August 01, 2006
Why I Love Being on the Internet, Reasons 374 and 375
After congratulating Dan Goldman on his and Anthony Lappe's very, very excellent Shooting War getting picked up by Warner Books, Dan gave me a really damned cool response:
"I've been to your site quite a few times over the last year or so... you're a pretty talented little fucker yerself. Looking forward to your OGN..."
He thinks I'm little! The diet/workout regime's working after all!
Then, today, I got this super cool email:
"Hello Rob
I am Paul Schamberger and I live with my wife Wendy in Johannesburg. Where are you? I work part-time as a sub-editor on a business newspaper and have also written a history book about the Second World War. My later father was August Schamberger, born in Bavaria in 1910, the son of Johann and Rosa Schamberger. Dad grew up in Switzerland and came to southern Africa in 1936. I am currently writing up his memoirs.
Kind regards
Paul"
Wow, how neat. I knew being the number one search engine result for "Schamberger" would pay off some day. Other than being my sole claim to fame at the annual Schamberger Golf Classic. It's pretty awesome, finding other creative folks with my same last name. My dad's family are mostly working type people, but sometimes folks like me pop up. My cousin Blake runs Irezumi tattoo here in KC, for instance. I know there's a fairly famous photographer Rick Schamberger somewhere in the Southeast US. There's a Dr Rob Schamberger out there, too:
Dashing fellow. Actually, he's reason number 376, I guess.
Posted by Schamberger at August 1, 2006 06:53 PM