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| Tuesday, June 20, 2000 |
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Boy tortures promotional penguin

Sunday was Father's Day. In the morning, Jeffrey woke me up to give me a decorated can to hold pens and pencils. He was profoundly cute, as three-year-olds can often be -- even unusually tall ones like this guy. The gift now sits on my desk next to the one his brother made when he was a little older, about twenty years ago.
Last night before going to sleep, Jeffrey said, "I want to hug your head." Parenting doesn't get better than this.
Great kid.
We shall call the child CcchtPT!
I was just purging some old files when I ran across a list of horrifying names I suggested to my brother- and sister-in-law when they were expecting their first child, a girl. Here they are:
Arby
Beulah Ray
Bevey
Blastula
Blitherene
Boofus
Boogie (the actual name of my mother's best friend)
Bovina
Catheter
Clucile
Churdelle
Clitilda
Clitora Jean
Cooter
Crisis Ann
Dagloe
DeTour
Dotterine
Dramamine
Drucilla
Dweebie Ann
Dwight
Enigma Jean
Exitta
Fallopia
Flagella
Gloë
Havoline
Herta
Jabba
Jiffy
Kidney
LaBowla
Mumblina
Murine Lee
Muticia
Cuticillle
Pancetta
Onanna
Nabiskie
Oblivia
Obsessa Mae
Patootie
Phybicia
Plethora
Profunda
Purdy
Ratchet
Spatula
Specula
Stigmaletta
Structura
Thurpie
Toobus
Trampolina
Tweedle
Ulvula
Urethra
Velveeta
Vicuna
Voona
Weezer
Woozi
They named the girl Kelly. Yeah, she's okay.
And yes, I believe most of the domain names are taken.
Psst! Wanna see some hot Senate testimony?
I know him best as Jason, the brilliant Junkbusters guy and eviscerateur of mannerless advertisers. But to congress he presents as...
Dr. Jason Catlett
President and CEO, Junkbusters Corp.
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Impressive. Anyway, his speech was followed by this exchange with a certain former Presidential candidate:
McCain: Thank you very much. Mr. Catlett. And Mr. Catlett, for the benefit of the committee, perhaps you could tell us what Junkbusters is all about.
Catlett: I would be pleased to, sir. Junkbusters is a web site where people go for information about how to stop junk communication, such as junk e-mail, junk telemarketing calls, junk faxes, unwanted junk mail, and so forth.
McCain: It sounds to me like you're doing the lord's work.
On a related matter, Don Marti sends along a link to much more subversive work: DoBBS: Denial of Big Brother Service, from Pigdog Journal ("bad craziness at impossible speeds").
Carry on.
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