In other odd naming news [link]

Last month the Court of Cassation Italy's highest appeal Court banned a couple from naming their son Friday - Venerdi - because the name "could expose the boy to ridicule".

The court said the name was derived from the manservant in Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, and was therefore associated with "subservience and inferiority". The judges ordered the boy to be renamed Gregorio, after the saint's day on which he was born.

I've heard before of government authorities in European countries telling parents that they can't use a particular name, but I've never heard of them mandating an alternative before.

How about this guy? [link]

Why? It's not for me enough that I've never made it that far.

The NBC Building seems to be at 30 Rockerfeller something. Plaza, I think.

I went there once, dinner and dancing at the Rainbow Room. Probably the most a guy has ever spent on me, and it was completely platonic. That's how I roll.

Perkins, DAMN. Please do research, yes.

They are already dead, thank god.

They are best that way, yes.

I'm loving the Netflix streaming to my TiVo EXCEPT that if you try and go into the menu when the 'net is on the fritz the box seems to lock up. And I have Time Warner flaky cable internet. So I will spend some time listening to music on my Apple TV until my baby's booted all the way back up and maybe I can get back to Dr. Who, classic style.

My life is so first world I could barf.

Holy shit, I just heard some crazy news of fallout from the Maddoff thing. Daaaag.

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Holy shit, I just heard some crazy news of fallout from the Maddoff thing. Daaaag.

It's everywhere. I've been getting emails the past few days from various Jewish organizations practically begging for money because they lost huge amounts with him. A few charities have already had to shut down, and it looks like a few more might in the next few weeks.

I've found some great Dame Judi Dench pictures too.

I just heard about a pretty significant foundation closing down entirely.

I am free of work for the next nine days. Yay!

Today we had dim sum for lunch, and tonight I am sorting out some TWoP stuff and also goofing off. Saturday I will be cleaning, and then a friend and I are having delicious sandwiches and much beer. Sunday I am going to my mom's for beef stroganoff and birthday cake.

And then Christmas Eve & Day will be eating-fests as well, so I think I'll be eating a lot of salad on Mon & Tues.

Oooo, and now I'm getting drunk-dialed from Germany!