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The Weather Channel is going to start naming North American winter storms to help people keep track of them afterwards. The list for this coming winter starts with A for Athena, B for Brutus, C for Caesar—and runs aground at Q is for…Q. Which they helpfully gloss as the name of a New York City subway line.
The New York City Health Department has released its list of most popular names for girls and boys in 2010. They break it down by ethnicity. The official categories here are Hispanic, Black, White, and Asian & Pacific Islander. My first thought was that the list doesn't look much like what I think of as "Hispanic" names: the only clearly Hispanic boys' name, Angel, is after Jayden and Justin and above Jacob and Christopher. Then I got to White.
For girls:
And for boys:
The New York Times story that linked me to this talked about the frequency of Blblical names, and boys' names starting in J, but that list doesn't just look "Biblical" to me, it looks Jewish. Esther, Leah, Rachel, Sarah, Chana, Chaya, not any form of Mary (nor is Maria on the list of names given to Hispanic girls). Either a very large fraction of the white children being born in this city right now are Jewish, or nobody's going to be able to tell a Jewish name from a non-Jewish one ten years from now. Some of both, I suspect: Leah and Hannah have been pretty high in the national lists of girls' names in the last few years. Not Ann(e) or Anna, Hannah. (I was going to offer my grandparents' names to a friend who was looking for suggestions of what to name a baby, a few years ago, but my friend's "nothing in the top ten" request ruled out my grandmother's name; she was Mia, short for Amelia.)
At my job, we are sometimes asked to write practice questions in the form "$name is doing an experiment/has discovered" rather than talking about "a student" or "a scientist" or "a team." We try to come up with a mix of plausible names, of various ethnicities. What does "Hispanic name" mean when the list of names for Hispanic girls starts "Isabella, Mia, Emily, Sophia, Ashley"? (I tend to use are statewide data, for the year and state in question: the Social Security Administration is happy to give out, say, top ten names for girls born in West Virginia in 2002, or boys in Mississippi in 1993, or anything back about a century, though they note that the data are spotty pre-1937, which isn't a problem for our purposes. Having the list rather than pulling things out of the air at least means it's less likely to read like "these are old people" to the kids using the book, which it might if I started thinking of my friends.)
I don't know what, if anything, this means,
For girls:
- Esther
And for boys:
The New York Times story that linked me to this talked about the frequency of Blblical names, and boys' names starting in J, but that list doesn't just look "Biblical" to me, it looks Jewish. Esther, Leah, Rachel, Sarah, Chana, Chaya, not any form of Mary (nor is Maria on the list of names given to Hispanic girls). Either a very large fraction of the white children being born in this city right now are Jewish, or nobody's going to be able to tell a Jewish name from a non-Jewish one ten years from now. Some of both, I suspect: Leah and Hannah have been pretty high in the national lists of girls' names in the last few years. Not Ann(e) or Anna, Hannah. (I was going to offer my grandparents' names to a friend who was looking for suggestions of what to name a baby, a few years ago, but my friend's "nothing in the top ten" request ruled out my grandmother's name; she was Mia, short for Amelia.)
At my job, we are sometimes asked to write practice questions in the form "$name is doing an experiment/has discovered" rather than talking about "a student" or "a scientist" or "a team." We try to come up with a mix of plausible names, of various ethnicities. What does "Hispanic name" mean when the list of names for Hispanic girls starts "Isabella, Mia, Emily, Sophia, Ashley"? (I tend to use are statewide data, for the year and state in question: the Social Security Administration is happy to give out, say, top ten names for girls born in West Virginia in 2002, or boys in Mississippi in 1993, or anything back about a century, though they note that the data are spotty pre-1937, which isn't a problem for our purposes. Having the list rather than pulling things out of the air at least means it's less likely to read like "these are old people" to the kids using the book, which it might if I started thinking of my friends.)
I don't know what, if anything, this means,
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The New York City Health Department has released its list of most popular names for girls and boys in 2010. They break it down by ethnicity. The official categories here are Hispanic, Black, White, and Asian & Pacific Islander. My first thought was that the list doesn't look much like what I think of as "Hispanic" names: the only clearly Hispanic boys' name, Angel, is after Jayden and Justin and above Jacob and Christopher. Then I got to White.
For girls:
And for boys:
The New York Times story that linked me to this talked about the frequency of Blblical names, and boys' names starting in J, but that list doesn't just look "Biblical" to me, it looks Jewish. Esther, Leah, Rachel, Sarah, Chana, Chaya, not any form of Mary (nor is Maria on the list of names given to Hispanic girls). Either a very large fraction of the white children being born in this city right now are Jewish, or nobody's going to be able to tell a Jewish name from a non-Jewish one ten years from now. Some of both, I suspect: Leah and Hannah have been pretty high in the national lists of girls' names in the last few years. Not Ann(e) or Anna, Hannah. (I was going to offer my grandparents' names to a friend who was looking for suggestions of what to name a baby, a few years ago, but my friend's "nothing in the top ten" request ruled out my grandmother's name; she was Mia, short for Amelia.)
At my job, we are sometimes asked to write practice questions in the form "$name is doing an experiment/has discovered" rather than talking about "a student" or "a scientist" or "a team." We try to come up with a mix of plausible names, of various ethnicities. What does "Hispanic name" mean when the list of names for Hispanic girls starts "Isabella, Mia, Emily, Sophia, Ashley"? (I tend to use are statewide data, for the year and state in question: the Social Security Administration is happy to give out, say, top ten names for girls born in West Virginia in 2002, or boys in Mississippi in 1993, or anything back about a century, though they note that the data are spotty pre-1937, which isn't a problem for our purposes. Having the list rather than pulling things out of the air at least means it's less likely to read like "these are old people" to the kids using the book, which it might if I started thinking of my friends.)
I don't know what, if anything, this means,
For girls:
- Esther
And for boys:
The New York Times story that linked me to this talked about the frequency of Blblical names, and boys' names starting in J, but that list doesn't just look "Biblical" to me, it looks Jewish. Esther, Leah, Rachel, Sarah, Chana, Chaya, not any form of Mary (nor is Maria on the list of names given to Hispanic girls). Either a very large fraction of the white children being born in this city right now are Jewish, or nobody's going to be able to tell a Jewish name from a non-Jewish one ten years from now. Some of both, I suspect: Leah and Hannah have been pretty high in the national lists of girls' names in the last few years. Not Ann(e) or Anna, Hannah. (I was going to offer my grandparents' names to a friend who was looking for suggestions of what to name a baby, a few years ago, but my friend's "nothing in the top ten" request ruled out my grandmother's name; she was Mia, short for Amelia.)
At my job, we are sometimes asked to write practice questions in the form "$name is doing an experiment/has discovered" rather than talking about "a student" or "a scientist" or "a team." We try to come up with a mix of plausible names, of various ethnicities. What does "Hispanic name" mean when the list of names for Hispanic girls starts "Isabella, Mia, Emily, Sophia, Ashley"? (I tend to use are statewide data, for the year and state in question: the Social Security Administration is happy to give out, say, top ten names for girls born in West Virginia in 2002, or boys in Mississippi in 1993, or anything back about a century, though they note that the data are spotty pre-1937, which isn't a problem for our purposes. Having the list rather than pulling things out of the air at least means it's less likely to read like "these are old people" to the kids using the book, which it might if I started thinking of my friends.)
I don't know what, if anything, this means,
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OK. I have not in fact missed my deadline for today, because the deadline is 4 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, not Eastern. (Having thought I might have, I dashed off the most minimal of cover letters and attached the file.) Still, better that than making the error in the other direction.
It felt like a long week somehow; various things didn't quite go right, so a couple of different small problems at the gym yesterday felt like a big deal. But I pulled myself together, did a little walking on a treadmill and then got a cardio bike, and got more settled. I hadn't even realized how many different things there had been until I was talking to Emilie and she put it that way. (One of them was that I'd changed my time to see her to Friday in order to do something else on Thursday, which then fell through.) But I still think the gym needs more cardio bikes; they're down to four, two of which were out of order yesterday, and only one of them labeled as such.
I felt like I was running a bit late after the workout, so changed quickly, got downstairs, and saw a very intense thunderstorm. I didn't walk out into the storm, because the hotel exit I normally use leads into a covered arcade/driveway/road that connects 48th and 49th Streets, but I walked toward the street before I realized that I didn't want to go out into that: heavy rain, winds driving it at an angle, and frequent nearby lightning and thunder. I called![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude to let him know that I wasn't going anywhere for a little while; I saw Emilie calling her husband to say much the same, and then we talked for 15 or 20 minutes until the rain eased enough that I was willing to walk to the nearest subway station. (I had an umbrella. That's okay for rain; not for lightning.) Cattitude, at home several miles away, was looking at a similar storm. When we went for a walk in the park today, there was a lot of mud, and deeper puddles than usual.
I was wearing a Bronx Zoo shirt, with otters on it; I think it was the members' freebie a few years ago. The organization that runs the zoo is now identifying itself as the "Wildlife Conservation Society," which is what it says on the shirt [1]. As I was heading home, some people looked at us and one of them said something like "Wildlife conservation, you're probably a good person to tell us what we want to know" and then asked some questions about the park. I handed them off to Cattitude, who has a better sense of direction, and he suggested they go uphill and then west.
( workout details )
[1] Legally it's still the New York Zoological Society, but our old souvenir shirts don't say that, they say "Bronx Zoo."
It felt like a long week somehow; various things didn't quite go right, so a couple of different small problems at the gym yesterday felt like a big deal. But I pulled myself together, did a little walking on a treadmill and then got a cardio bike, and got more settled. I hadn't even realized how many different things there had been until I was talking to Emilie and she put it that way. (One of them was that I'd changed my time to see her to Friday in order to do something else on Thursday, which then fell through.) But I still think the gym needs more cardio bikes; they're down to four, two of which were out of order yesterday, and only one of them labeled as such.
I felt like I was running a bit late after the workout, so changed quickly, got downstairs, and saw a very intense thunderstorm. I didn't walk out into the storm, because the hotel exit I normally use leads into a covered arcade/driveway/road that connects 48th and 49th Streets, but I walked toward the street before I realized that I didn't want to go out into that: heavy rain, winds driving it at an angle, and frequent nearby lightning and thunder. I called
cattitude to let him know that I wasn't going anywhere for a little while; I saw Emilie calling her husband to say much the same, and then we talked for 15 or 20 minutes until the rain eased enough that I was willing to walk to the nearest subway station. (I had an umbrella. That's okay for rain; not for lightning.) Cattitude, at home several miles away, was looking at a similar storm. When we went for a walk in the park today, there was a lot of mud, and deeper puddles than usual.I was wearing a Bronx Zoo shirt, with otters on it; I think it was the members' freebie a few years ago. The organization that runs the zoo is now identifying itself as the "Wildlife Conservation Society," which is what it says on the shirt [1]. As I was heading home, some people looked at us and one of them said something like "Wildlife conservation, you're probably a good person to tell us what we want to know" and then asked some questions about the park. I handed them off to Cattitude, who has a better sense of direction, and he suggested they go uphill and then west.
( workout details )
[1] Legally it's still the New York Zoological Society, but our old souvenir shirts don't say that, they say "Bronx Zoo."
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There's a questions meme going around. Since a couple of my friends have answered this one, I'll join them:
"Why did you pick your journal name?"
I came by "redbird" back in the 1990s, when my friend Lucy was running a MOO and invited me to join. People were mostly using handles, and I needed one. I happened to glance at my left arm, noticed the tattoo, and "redbird" it was. After a while, Lucy was occasionally calling me "Red."
When I joined Livejournal, my given name was taken, and redbird was available, so I grabbed it. Then when I came over here (yes, I'm still at LJ as well) I wanted the continuity, though I also grabbed my initials as a username (in the Unix system tradition). I haven't used that account, but it's not as though we're running out of usernames.
"Why did you pick your journal name?"
I came by "redbird" back in the 1990s, when my friend Lucy was running a MOO and invited me to join. People were mostly using handles, and I needed one. I happened to glance at my left arm, noticed the tattoo, and "redbird" it was. After a while, Lucy was occasionally calling me "Red."
When I joined Livejournal, my given name was taken, and redbird was available, so I grabbed it. Then when I came over here (yes, I'm still at LJ as well) I wanted the continuity, though I also grabbed my initials as a username (in the Unix system tradition). I haven't used that account, but it's not as though we're running out of usernames.
I've been looking at trying out dreamwidth (it's an site, using an LJ code fork, designed to fix/improve some of the annoying things about either the LJ code or the management of this site).
bugshaw has kindly sent me an invite code, so I don't have to wait until the end of April.
So, I've been thinking about names. I've been using redbird here partly because it was the name I used on ElderMOO, and partly because my first name was taken, and I try to avoid online identities that require people to remember how to spell my surname. But this is still in beta, and I may have more choices.
So, a quick poll:
[Poll #1382180]
bugshaw has kindly sent me an invite code, so I don't have to wait until the end of April.So, I've been thinking about names. I've been using redbird here partly because it was the name I used on ElderMOO, and partly because my first name was taken, and I try to avoid online identities that require people to remember how to spell my surname. But this is still in beta, and I may have more choices.
So, a quick poll:
[Poll #1382180]
I've been looking at trying out dreamwidth (it's an site, using an LJ code fork, designed to fix/improve some of the annoying things about either the LJ code or the management of this site).
bugshaw has kindly sent me an invite code, so I don't have to wait until the end of April.
So, I've been thinking about names. I've been using redbird here partly because it was the name I used on ElderMOO, and partly because my first name was taken, and I try to avoid online identities that require people to remember how to spell my surname. But this is still in beta, and I may have more choices.
So, a quick poll:
[Poll #1382180]
bugshaw has kindly sent me an invite code, so I don't have to wait until the end of April.So, I've been thinking about names. I've been using redbird here partly because it was the name I used on ElderMOO, and partly because my first name was taken, and I try to avoid online identities that require people to remember how to spell my surname. But this is still in beta, and I may have more choices.
So, a quick poll:
[Poll #1382180]
Another collection of comments. ( resolutions, sexual orientation and relationships, clothing and perceived gender, names and use-names, awareness of race, sleep and waking )
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Another collection of comments. ( resolutions, sexual orientation and relationships, clothing and perceived gender, names and use-names, awareness of race, sleep and waking )
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More saved comments: ( critics and criticism, reasons for coming out, body image, chai, names, how long nations last )
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More saved comments: ( critics and criticism, reasons for coming out, body image, chai, names, how long nations last )
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More comments from elsewhere: ( names, anonymity, illness, comparisons, libraries and collection development, tool use )
More comments from elsewhere: ( names, anonymity, illness, comparisons, libraries and collection development, tool use )
I had already decided to donate to the Minneapolis Public Library's John M. Ford Book Endowment, because it's something beneficial I can do in Mike's memory now (I signed my organ donor card, but hope that won't be relevant any time soon, and by definition I won't be around to know about it). Then papersky offered, among other incentives, that for a donation of $100 or more she'd put the donor's name into a book:
I asked her to translate my name, and noted that while "Vicki" is Latinate, I had a preference for Greek. She noted that the Romans wouldn't have used "Victoria" as a name for a human, but the Greeks did use Nike. The name Jo came up with is, she says, not an actual Greek name, but it sounds entirely plausible: Rhodonike, Victory of Roses.
[I don't know if Jo's offer is still open: her most recent auction update post said at least through this past Monday. But the library will still be happy to accept donations.]
papersky offered, among other incentives, that for a donation of $100 or more she'd put the donor's name into a book: If your name works as Greek, Latin, Carthaginian or Lizardman, then into Our Sea, otherwise into Half A Crown.Or, if you prefer, I can translate your name into Greek, Latin, Carthaginian or Lizardman.
I asked her to translate my name, and noted that while "Vicki" is Latinate, I had a preference for Greek. She noted that the Romans wouldn't have used "Victoria" as a name for a human, but the Greeks did use Nike. The name Jo came up with is, she says, not an actual Greek name, but it sounds entirely plausible: Rhodonike, Victory of Roses.
[I don't know if Jo's offer is still open: her most recent auction update post said at least through this past Monday. But the library will still be happy to accept donations.]
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I had already decided to donate to the Minneapolis Public Library's John M. Ford Book Endowment, because it's something beneficial I can do in Mike's memory now (I signed my organ donor card, but hope that won't be relevant any time soon, and by definition I won't be around to know about it). Then papersky offered, among other incentives, that for a donation of $100 or more she'd put the donor's name into a book:
I asked her to translate my name, and noted that while "Vicki" is Latinate, I had a preference for Greek. She noted that the Romans wouldn't have used "Victoria" as a name for a human, but the Greeks did use Nike. The name Jo came up with is, she says, not an actual Greek name, but it sounds entirely plausible: Rhodonike, Victory of Roses.
[I don't know if Jo's offer is still open: her most recent auction update post said at least through this past Monday. But the library will still be happy to accept donations.]
papersky offered, among other incentives, that for a donation of $100 or more she'd put the donor's name into a book: If your name works as Greek, Latin, Carthaginian or Lizardman, then into Our Sea, otherwise into Half A Crown.Or, if you prefer, I can translate your name into Greek, Latin, Carthaginian or Lizardman.
I asked her to translate my name, and noted that while "Vicki" is Latinate, I had a preference for Greek. She noted that the Romans wouldn't have used "Victoria" as a name for a human, but the Greeks did use Nike. The name Jo came up with is, she says, not an actual Greek name, but it sounds entirely plausible: Rhodonike, Victory of Roses.
[I don't know if Jo's offer is still open: her most recent auction update post said at least through this past Monday. But the library will still be happy to accept donations.]
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Hail Eris!
Yes, 2003 UB313, the world some blame for the "demotion" of Pluto, has an official name, and the discoverer found something better than "Xena".
Yes, 2003 UB313, the world some blame for the "demotion" of Pluto, has an official name, and the discoverer found something better than "Xena".
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Hail Eris!
Yes, 2003 UB313, the world some blame for the "demotion" of Pluto, has an official name, and the discoverer found something better than "Xena".
Yes, 2003 UB313, the world some blame for the "demotion" of Pluto, has an official name, and the discoverer found something better than "Xena".
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All names are chosen names. It's just that some of us are using names we chose ourselves, some are using names chosen by people close to us (especially parents), and some are using, and I hope happy with, old choices.
Outside LJ, I use "Vicki," the name my parents chose. (Mom wanted the long form, Dad the shorter, he won that argument, so I insist on the spelling as given there.)redbird was chosen in an odd moment for use on ElderMOO, and is totemic, from my first tattoo.
My surname comes from a great-grandfather who sojourned in Germany for a while.
I could change any of them, some more easily than others, but I'm basically happy with what I've got, and continuity has its own appeals. So, for some people and purposes, does discontinuity, and reading a post related to that prompted this: a name change can be a way of affiliating with something or someone new, or of saying "I am no longer who you thought I was."
Outside LJ, I use "Vicki," the name my parents chose. (Mom wanted the long form, Dad the shorter, he won that argument, so I insist on the spelling as given there.)
redbird was chosen in an odd moment for use on ElderMOO, and is totemic, from my first tattoo.My surname comes from a great-grandfather who sojourned in Germany for a while.
I could change any of them, some more easily than others, but I'm basically happy with what I've got, and continuity has its own appeals. So, for some people and purposes, does discontinuity, and reading a post related to that prompted this: a name change can be a way of affiliating with something or someone new, or of saying "I am no longer who you thought I was."
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All names are chosen names. It's just that some of us are using names we chose ourselves, some are using names chosen by people close to us (especially parents), and some are using, and I hope happy with, old choices.
Outside LJ, I use "Vicki," the name my parents chose. (Mom wanted the long form, Dad the shorter, he won that argument, so I insist on the spelling as given there.)redbird was chosen in an odd moment for use on ElderMOO, and is totemic, from my first tattoo.
My surname comes from a great-grandfather who sojourned in Germany for a while.
I could change any of them, some more easily than others, but I'm basically happy with what I've got, and continuity has its own appeals. So, for some people and purposes, does discontinuity, and reading a post related to that prompted this: a name change can be a way of affiliating with something or someone new, or of saying "I am no longer who you thought I was."
Outside LJ, I use "Vicki," the name my parents chose. (Mom wanted the long form, Dad the shorter, he won that argument, so I insist on the spelling as given there.)
redbird was chosen in an odd moment for use on ElderMOO, and is totemic, from my first tattoo.My surname comes from a great-grandfather who sojourned in Germany for a while.
I could change any of them, some more easily than others, but I'm basically happy with what I've got, and continuity has its own appeals. So, for some people and purposes, does discontinuity, and reading a post related to that prompted this: a name change can be a way of affiliating with something or someone new, or of saying "I am no longer who you thought I was."
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I'm seeing lots of emails about my 25th high school reunion (and have sent a couple). The names on the messages are ranging from "I'd like to see her" (including someone who was in the class after mine, but I think graduated early) through curiosity to remembering only the name [how do you forget the name "Thunder Levin"?] to "okay, have I just forgotten someone, or is this a name change, possibly related to marriage?" 130 of us, 25 years, forgetting some is to be expected.
I find myself very hesitant to get out the yearbook and try to place names.
I find myself very hesitant to get out the yearbook and try to place names.
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