Well this could very well be my reward for writing about Digital Identity so much. Last night I had dinner with Stowe and Dean. Now, I have not met Dean personally before, but I recognized him from the past 2 BloggerCon’s so. I was more intrigued, however, by Dean’s familiarity with me.

As we introduced each other, he asked if I was the Greg Narain from the Orkut Yankees Community. I immediately rejected that since I never signed up for Orkut (instead opting to spy via other people’s accounts). At first blush, I assumed he knew my name from my stuff over at GetReal. I loosely entertained the notion that there was another Gregory Narain (I’ve only found one so far but he never responded to my e-mail).

So we had dinner and some good conversation. As we dropped Dean back to his car, he mentioned the Orkut thing once more. We were saying how strange it is that there’s another me. As Dean said, “I’m glad you’re not the one on Orkut, I have a lot more respect for you now.” He confirmed it wasn’t me by nothing this Orkut Greg lived in New Jersey. Now previously, Dean and I were talking about Rockland County (where I am from and where he currently resides). Of course, I live in Newark now so I was shocked to know that there was another Greg Narain living in Newark - oh wait, that’s A LIE.

So here’s what I need. Can anyone with access to Orkut do a search for either Greg Narain or Gregory Narain and tell me if I, well that cloning bastard, comes up. I’m very curious what I do at night, now that I know what happens during those brief hours that I close my eyes.