Some­thing I’ve noticed a while back when I first dis­cov­ered the Inter­net — the Sklar name is very opin­ion­ated and appears to be asso­ci­ated with writ­ers and schol­ars pretty often.

The first time I encoun­tered a Sklar which I didn’t knew about was in late 90’s or early 00’s when I set upon buy­ing Sklar.com domain, I noticed that it’s already occu­pied by another Sklar, one by the name of David Sklar, and to my utter sur­prise at the time — this guy is writ­ing PHP books. It’s worth men­tion­ing at this point that late 90’s is when I started my romance with com­put­ers and devel­op­ment, and PHP was basi­cally my first real expe­ri­ence with com­puter programming.

It seems that there are a lot of writ­ers with the sur-name Sklar, writ­ing about all kinds of stuff and pub­lish­ing books about any­thing you can imagine;

• David Sklar — PHP spe­cial­ist
• Joel Sklar — Con­sul­tant, wrote a book about Prin­ci­ples of Web Design and a few other books on web and design
• Bernard Sklar — Wrote about Dig­i­tal Communications
• Richard L. Sklar — Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, LA, wrote a book about Power in an Emer­gent African Nation
• David P. Sklar — A doc­tor who lit­er­ally learned med­i­cine by prac­tic­ing it
• Lawrence Sklar — A philoso­pher spe­cial­iz­ing in Phi­los­o­phy of Physics who wrote a bunch of books on Physics and Phi­los­o­phy and any­thing in between
• Martín J. Sklar — Wrote “The cor­po­rate recon­struc­tion of Amer­i­can cap­i­tal­ism, 1890 – 1916: the mar­ket, the law, and pol­i­tics” (yea, that’s the books title) in 1988
• Kathryn Kish Sklar — Pro­fes­sor in the His­tory depart­ment in Bing­ham­ton Uni­ver­sity, writ­ing about stuff like Women and Power in Amer­i­can History
• Holly Sklar — “an author and syn­di­cated colum­nist, pol­icy ana­lyst and strate­gist whose arti­cles have appeared in hun­dreds of news­pa­pers and online out­lets as well as The Nation, and other pub­li­ca­tions.” Wikipedia. Wrote a dozen books includ­ing Titans of the Enron Econ­omy: The Ten Habits of Highly Defec­tive Corporations

This is just the first page on Google Books Search for the term “Sklar”.

I’m sure that there are other sur-names that appear a lot more as authors of books and pub­li­ca­tions, but the sub­jects and spe­cialty of the peo­ple that pop-up under the name Sklar is pecu­liar at the very least.

It would be inter­est­ing to have a Sklar con­ven­tion with a dozen or more of the Sklar’s of the world, I pos­tu­late that such a meet­ing could have a lot of inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tions. I won­der what the other Sklars think about this…