Motorola Laughs

Robb’s birthday was Monday.  He turned 24.  I texted him, Welcome to the mid-20s.  He texted back, Thanks, senility is already setting in.  I texted him, Do you have a nose hair trimmer yet?  He texted back, I just use my toenail clippers.  But now I have athlete’s foot in my nose.

Clearly we’ve both inherited our dad’s sense of humor.

While asking him about how the wedding planning is going (looong story there), I tried to text, Is Geremy coming?  Geremy is the oldest of our four cousins who live in Spain.  He’s a couple years younger than Robb and even though he’s spent most of his life something like 5,724 miles away, they’ve always been friendly.  We have a plethora of girl cousins, so they may have bonded young out of desperation.  Geremy recently got Facebook and so they’ve been talking, which I think is nice.  This is what Facebook is good for.

Now, I know “Geremy” is not the common spelling, so I expected my phone not to know it.  What I didn’t count on was my phone suggesting “Gerchanovsky.”  I LOLed about it and updated my FB status to something humorous and forgot about it.  But this morning I found myself in one of those internet situations where you are chatting with someone, but need something else to do in between the times they’re responding to you?  So I Googled “Gerchanovsky” to see who he was.  I figured, Famous composer, Famous chef, Famous Russian who did something.

Imagine my amusement when all that was returned to me was posts on other people’s blogs and “Yahoo! Answers” types of websites, asking, “Why does my Motorola phone suggest ‘Gerchanovsky’?  Who is this guy?”  Also an urbandictionary entry defining Gerchanovsky as “a jerk who plays with himskelf daily and cant get a gf and tends to talk in aim language such as lool wow and gthfctrgdghd or (get the hell for cars to row god dang goblins hide dope). In other words a total loser.”

Oh yeah, and one more link – to the LinkedIn profile of Alex Gerchanovsky, a Principle Software Engineer at Motorola Mobile Devices.  Touché, Mr. Gerchanovsky.  I hope someday I too can inspire blog entries by strangers.