So many AIS, so little time

I bought a belt buckle months ago at a secondhand store that randomly said AIS on it. I don't know what it means in that context but I thought it was funny and I finally decided I should switch out my Lindsey Wixson profile photo.

Check it out:



(If the pic doesn't show above, just look at my profile photo)

Anyway, I tried doing a google image search of AIS logo to see if I could identify this (anyone know what it is?), and while I didn't find this particular design, I was surprised to see how many AIS logos there are.

Seriously, check it out or if that link doesn't work, go to images.google.com and search ais logo.

It's actually really cool... All sorts of different meanings and a surprising amount of variation in the designs considering it's all based on the same short three letters.

Apparently my name is shared with, among many others:

**Thailand's leading mobile phone operator (whose new logo has a cute "With you, ALWAYS" on it that I now want to walk around saying)
**an association of Italian wine professionals
**engineering services
**a business member of a cyber security alliance and which, according to its logo, promises "devastating capability; revolutionary advantage" (another thing I want to walk around saying)
**IT professionals
**a one-way drayage company
**an Australian sport training institute
**an association of international students at a university
**an English-based school in Kuwait
**a Russian car site? (PS: I was pretty proud of myself for being able to sound out автоинвестстрой as avtoynveststroy even though I didn't know what it meant)
**an Indian website design company
**a commercial electrical product company
**I think there was some sort of nerd association from a Spanish-speaking country too but I accidentally closed the window before I could read it and now I don't know which logo it was


It's funny to me since someone else is the one who nicknamed me this. If not for them, I'd be Mika, and missing out on all this Ais action. (Be glad I didn't do the super cheesy "gloriais action" like I wanted to do, and be SAD that I did it anyway in parentheses)

What this all means is that I am most certainly never going to appear at the top of someone's search engine just by checking 'ais.'

Ohoho~ Ninja cloak activated.
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Published on July 07, 2013 21:05
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message 1: by Julio (new)

Julio Genao you'd be surprised. something hinky goes down with search suggestions and sorting algorithms, once in a while.

there's a twitter account devoted to the happy accidents that happen when google makes search suggestions and you can read them from top to bottom like a poem, and it makes sense bcuz SORCERY


message 2: by Julio (new)

Julio Genao .....and tumblr. http://www.googlepoetics.com


message 3: by Ais (new)

Ais lol I hadn't seen that googlepoetics.com... That looks like it will be fun to skim. I've noticed the funny things that pop up as options at times. Sometimes I select them just because.


message 4: by Ornella (new)

Ornella AIS are the initials to the school I graduated from :P


message 5: by Ais (new)

Ais lol Ornella, if you were still there I could have emailed them and been like, "MMM. YES. I am clearly the founder given my name. A's all around for Ornella!"


message 6: by Ornella (new)

Ornella Ais wrote: "lol Ornella, if you were still there I could have emailed them and been like, "MMM. YES. I am clearly the founder given my name. A's all around for Ornella!""

Lmao. All A's would have been much appreciated xD


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