Musing on Names, Followup

Pursuant to this poll which I wasted everyone's time with earlier this year.

Check this out!

Is that cool, or what?

fiddling around with that names database some more

Interesting.

First of all, my formal first name and its most common diminuitive (which I use) are vastly different in their distribution.

Secondly, my wife's name ain't even on the map. (She'll be pleased about that, I'm sure).

Third, we put some effort into picking not-extremely-popular-but-normal-sounding names for both of our daughters, and yet each of them is on an upward trend since the 60s sharp upward spike since about 1990 or so. I guess we unconsiously managed to tap into the gestalt. What the hell's the point of never watching any TV when stuff like this happens?

I guess I'll stop patting myself on the back

I was sitting here feeling all smug that I'd eaten a smallish lunch with lots of carrot sticks and fruit and so forth, and wasn't feeling even the slightest urge to snack.

Then I remembered that, twenty minutes ago, I scarfed two slices of pizza left over from the Mgt review meeting.

*sigh*