en Passant

My wife and I were at home last night watching TV around 10PM, when the telephone started ringing. As you may imagine, with 2 young kids in the house, not many people are calling us after dark. It ended up being a friend who left their cell phone 'unlocked' and it was dialing us from inside her purse. We could hear her chatting with someone about items in the grocery store. After the third call in 5 minutes, we called her back and asked her to pick up some donuts while she was out shopping.

This got me thinking about a long-time muse. People are doing different things, than I am. For example, in the time it takes me to type this story, 400 new babies will born (at 5/sec), a bank will be robbed and a pizza will be eaten. At the same time, I bet there are at least 50 people blogging about something that happened today, will happen today or a random thought like me. As I took my kids to daycare today, I followed behind the same SUV that I followed on at least 3 other occasions.

So, how many clones of me are out there? Googling my name, I see at least 5 Eric Woodfords. I am doubtful that these other Eric's are doing the same thing (otherwise they may be #1 Eric on Google and not me!). Is JC Hutchin's story about 7 clones seperated at birth real??