Just when I thought I was the smartest person on the planet I learned a new word today. Dave Kilimnik sent me this email from Los Angeles --

"i just sent you an SMS that I saw his doppelganger in L.A....it was creepy...
i asked the guy is his name was Ben, and I didn't believe him when he said "No.:"

My first thought was that a doppelganger was some type of skyscraper. Given that it sounds like a zeppelin or a hanglider I then moved on to believe that it might be something to do with sky writing although I was pretty sure it had something to do with a blimp because it sounded german. I also considered that it might be the image that appears next to an article in a newspaper. Since I couldn't figure it out on my own I had to look it up on dictionary.com. Below is the official definition.

dop·pel·gäng·er or dop·pel·gang·er ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dpl-gngr, -gng-)n.
A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart.

I am still wondering what happened to my doppelganger or if a video recently found of me really is me. Alex Lui had sent me this message about a week ago.

"Hi,
I was watching "Fresh Gear" (G4TechTV channel) on my Tivo today, and suddently I saw you (I am pretty much sure it is you since I rewinded couple times and my wife confirmed it as well)!!! You were talking something in a web cam (I think the web site is "match.com"). I will try to see if I can capture that show using my TV tuner card and send to you."

Maybe it was me. Maybe it wasn't. Someone also told me that they had seen an doppleganger of me on the cover of a book about active server pages. There must be plenty of people who look like everyone else. There should be a web site called doppleganger.com where you can submit your picture and find people who look like you who are also looking for body or facial doubles. People could be drawn into the site with a free offer to test how well they match looking like famous people. For example - everyone always tells Robert that he looks like George Clooney. It could even find famous people that you look like.

Well - that about does it for me on this subject or maybe it's someone who looks a lot like me writing this.