Normally, the only Jason Dunn I’m mistaken for in the online world is this singer guy. Well, last night I had an all-new case of mistaken identity: I was watching The Ultimate Fighter Ultimate Finale with a friend, which we were watching on the Xbox 360 via the Windows Media Center UI (man I love that!) and I received an invitation to a “photo party” from a contact that I had approved earlier that day via the Zune software. Confused yet? Yeah, it’s kind of messy. The Xbox 360 and Zune avatar/handle system does such a good job of protecting user identify, I usually have no clue who I’m adding to my buddy list - I always assume it’s someone that I know, and eventually I’ll discover who.

I ignored the “party” request from this person, and after we finished watching the show I noticed I had a new message. I listened to it, and laughed: it was a message from someone I didn’t know, who was complimenting me on my great tattoo work. Now while I do like my one and only tattoo, it’s not particularly impressive from a design standpoint (and in fact needs filling in because it has some gaps), so I was kind of confused. I listened to the message again, and realized that he was talking about tattoos, as in plural.

Then the pieces fell together: he thought I was this Jason Dunn, a very talented tattoo artist. Jason Clay Dunn also happens to have a particular talented for Japanese-themed tattoos, which I find interesting considering my own passion for certain aspects of Japanese culture. I’m still pondering my next tattoos - the Kanji on my back was just a test - but wouldn’t it be cool to be tattooed by my namesake? There’s a certain synergy there that I find appealing.

At any rate, I wish people would grasp the concept that in our vastly interconnected world, there’s nothing particularly unique about a name. Everyone’s identity is multi-faceted, and just because you find the person with the name you’re looking for doesn’t mean you’ve found the right person. What’s really amusing about this whole thing is that Jason Clay Dunn is more connected with social media than I am: he’s on Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and two ink Web sites.

And so the world of Jason Dunn’s continue to broaden - I used to think all I had to do was out-last the career of a NFL player and a rock singer, but I doubt this pottery guy and this artist guy are going anywhere soon.

[I may have taken this blog to an all-time low by posting a LOLcats image,
but hey, I could really relate to the image] Source

In The Know: Has Halloween Become Overcommercialized?

I was watching the Spike TV 2008 Scream awards, and near the end, at the 1 hour 56 minute and 30 second mark, some guy in the crowd, within earshot of the microphone that Lucas was speaking from, yelled out “You haven’t been cool since the ’80s!”. Wow. It’s one thing to express your opinion about someone else, but it’s quite another to do so as a heckler from the crowd at an event where he’s being honoured. I doubt he made it back to his car alive - I’m sure one of those Storm Troopers gave him a little re-education on respecting the creator of the Star Wars universe.

[taken with my Samsung Jack, hence the poor quality]

Note to self regarding purchases made at Costco: before purchasing three boxes of noodles, each with four packages per box, make sure what you’re buying actually tastes good. Simply Asia evidently spent all their budget on great-looking packages and not on making their noodles taste like something other than soggy cardboard. Bleh.

[Turn your speakers down before hitting play, the recorded this with hideously over-driven audio]

This is one funny online project! There aren’t many things that will make me spend 42 minutes watching my browser (I watched this in several small parts), but this online episodic project from Joss Whedon is hilarious and very entertaining - and I generally loathe musicals. The only thing that kind of sucks about it is that they picked iTunes as their exclusive method of distribution, so it’s either iTunes or watching it in your browser. Bleh. There’s more in the world than iTunes Joss!

This is some funny stuff…and you can get in on the action yourself too!

Note to self: double-check spelling of domain names before you register them. Good thing I never tried to use these…