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February 04, 2004
What's in a Name?
This is not, as you may have suspected, a followup to an earlier article even if it starts with the same theme. Instead, check out this story from the SMH:
Tacking Jr or II onto a boy's name is too common, a new father decided, so the self-described engineering geek took a software approach to naming his newborn son.
Jon Blake Cusack talked his wife, Jamie, into naming their son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.
"I wanted to find something different to name him besides Jon Blake," Cusack told The Holland Sentinel.
He said he had the idea for a few months, and spent the better part of that time persuading his wife to go along.
Jamie Cusack said she didn't concede until the week before the birth. She said she had "picked out the theme of the baby's room and done other things. I decided to let Jon have this."
After 2.0's birth, the Cusacks sent out an electronic birth announcement.
"I wrote in the birth announcement email stuff, like there's a lot of features from version 1.0 with additional features from Jamie," Jon Cusack said.
The paper failed to make the obvious punchline - obviously this is going to be a one-child family.
I mean what would you call the second son? Jon Blake Cusack 2.1 or 3.0?
How would you call the kids? "Wash your hands, 2.0", "Brush your teeth 2.1".
[Update: That'll teach me to forget to post things - Jake is already running the story.]
Posted by Ozguru at February 4, 2004 07:02 AM
