WIAKywbfatw's Journal: Some geeks go to far...

BBC News story.

Seriously, the fact that people like this are actively propagating their genes is worrying. When will people realise that calling their kids "2.0" or naming them after a brand is nothing short of moronic?

This is your kid's name. It's not the name of your car, your PC or even your dog. It's your child; a living, breathing, human being who will have that name for (probably) a good 60-100 years.

Anyone who's so self-centred in the child naming process that they haven't thought through how society (especially high school society) will react to a kid named "2.0" or "Monster.com" or "Wal-mart" should be taken out back and given a baseball's perspective of a baseball bat.

What?

[Ethelred Unraed]

We're naming our kid Slashdot.

What?

Cheers,

Ethelred

PS: for the humor-impaired, this was...a joke.

Re:What?

[WIAKywbfatw]

If you're stuck for names, how about WIAKywbfatw? It shortens quite nicely to WIAK.

Re:What?

[Frisky070802]

What does your name stand for, anyway?

Re:What?

[WIAKywbfatw]

Well, at least two people on Slashdot know what it stands for. One even had it as the root password for his server until he saw it being used as my name (and he hurrily went off to change it).

I'll post an explanation as to what WIAKywbfatw stands for (yes, it stands for something; you've got that much right) in another JE but not just yet.

Boy Named Sue 1.0

[Frisky070802]

Reminiscent of the Johnny Cash song. This poor kid. I hope some relative convinces them, or a court, to be reasonable rather than fuck up his life.

my freakish sister

[heliocentric]

Anyone who's so self-centred in the child naming process that they haven't thought through how society (especially high school society) will react to a kid named "2.0" or "Monster.com" or "Wal-mart" should be taken out back and given a baseball's perspective of a baseball bat.

You read about these people and think they are nuts, I'm related to one and I know they are nuts.

My sister and her husband nammed their first born (a boy):

Azzurro Thomas Irie Bumble Dragon Spider Azul Zimmerman-Cadmus

And as if tha

Could be worse (ish)

[Tomble]

At first I thought you meant he was going to be just called "2.0". Still, having 2.0 as some sort of honorific is certainly quite screwed up all the same. I think somehow this is the sort of thing that only some sort of newbie geek would think cool - thoroughly nerdy people (I count myself here) would see version numbers as nothing to go wetting yourself over, and clearly inappropriate for use with people. How ironic that seems.

Perhaps it would seem more reasonable to me if people in the UK commonly had "J