A Day, A Week, Hemant, A Year

I was recently doing a vanity search on Google. Searching on “Hemant Naidu” came up with the usual results putting this blog at the number one spot, and the “Not There Benefit CD Against Wal-Mart” bringing up second place. Surprisingly I had never performed a search on my nickname, “Naids”. I thought for sure that this blog would again be at the top of the search results. Instead my blog came up in the number seven spot.

Up at the top was a website called naids.org and when I clicked on it there seemed to be a lot of links to AIDS websites. Very interesting. Then not much further down the search results there was something that caught my eye - “Urban Dictionary: naids”. Imagine my surprise when I followed the link and found out that “NAIDS” has come to mean:

The kind of AIDS that you get from sharing needles.

Oh my god, I have NAIDS! I never should have shared that needle with Miles.

So I just wanted to take this moment to clarify the meaning of my nickname. As most of you know, my last name is “Naidu”, pronounced ny-doo. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to determine the origin of my nickname - merely a shortening of my last name to “Naids”, pronounced nides. The urban dictionary word “NAIDS” is an acronym, and is pronounced nayds.

There is NO CORRELATION with my nickname and the urban definition. My nickname IS NOT a reflection of my immune system not functioning due to me sharing needles with drug addicts. I CAN GUARANTEE that my immune system is strong and that I have NEVER used a needle for recreational drug use. The only needles ever inserted into my body have been administered by trained medical professionals.

Note that these search results are based on Google’s current Page Rank for websites containing the word “naids”. Hopefully over time the Page Rank of my pages will creep to the number one position.