Music Recommendation: This will be a short, melancholic, diary-like entry, so this song fits the bill. I’ve read that the song is about the environment heating up, and all the celebrities depicted in the music video are ACTUALLY meant to show how the media distracts us from actual, important issues. Do you think global warming is gonna kill us? Comment your thoughts down below!

Anyway.

I recently moved to Prague for my dream job in game development. I won’t get into the details, but suffice it to say it’s been great so far.

My new company ended up covering an airbnb for me while I looked for an apartment. Pro tip: never accept an apartment you haven’t seen (also never take an Uber ride without going through the Uber app, fuck you Marek).

The airbnb was in highly touristic, expensive downtown Prague, and you could tell: the doors were large, the bathtub was great, and the building’s hallways were adorned with photos from bygone eras.

Specifically, there were many photos of a woman named Anka Čekanová (pronounced Anca Czechanovaaa for all you non Czechs (literally all of my subscribers)).

I liked the photos a lot (I don’t know why), and she must’ve been important, since her photos were all over the place. And maybe she was, at the time, but not anymore. There isn’t a terrible amount of info about her on the internet, and if your info isn’t on the internet, it doesn’t really exist. Information that isn’t accessible (to the public) isn’t terribly valuable (to the public).

What I mean is, the more info about you is available, the more real you are. Your average person with an Instagram account today is more real than Anka Čekanová will ever be. She was a celebrity in Prague in the 20’s! But now she’s a footnote.

If you google “Anka Čekanová”, you get some Czech sites with some short info about her, and then immediately some facebook profiles of real life Anka Cekanova’s.

When I googled her, all I found was that she died in 1965 (before both of my parents were born), that she had a twin named Wenceslas (who doesn’t even have a wikipedia entry), and that her father was a factory owner. She had two children.

The Czech wiki article doesn’t tell you much more.

Most of us won’t even be footnotes after we die though, so Anka wins this one. Do you think you’ll amount to a footnote in history? Leave a comment below!