Timelies all!

Conterpoint starts today. Eeeeekkk!!!(Actually, I'm a lot less stressed about this one that I have been in the past.)

Actually, it's Animaxander. Seriously. Although ita will have to check my spelling.

Anaximander, to be precise. And I love that name and the public face of that little boy (his father does "Cooking Fast And Fresh With West" videos where West leads the shopping and calls the shots cooking and Misha plays along 100%. It's utterly adorable). Sadly, the younger sister is called Maison, but she's been carefully sheltered from the public to a degree little Anaximander wasn't. (Show's other kids are Thomas and Justice)

Huh. This is the first time airport security has had me send my tablets through the scanner separately from my carry-on bag. I wonder what the deciding factor is.

I had that this week too - first time I've heard them say iPads and Kindles had to come out along with laptops.

This is what I always say when celebrities have unusual kid names: the name will absolutely pale in importance compared to having those parents. You think kids are going to mock North West for his name, when "sex tape" and "hurry up with my damn croissant" exist?

Question for car-owning types - we are going on vacation with our neighbors later this summer, and they are renting a car. I suggested they get EZ-Pass so the toll booths don't slow us down, but you can't get an EZ Pass account without a car (they need the tag #), and the rental company charges $20 per day to add it (which is insane unless you're going to be spending your entire vacation driving back and forth through the Holland Tunnel, which...I guess it takes all kinds to make a world?)

If I were to get an extra transponder on my own account, could they use it in their rental car or would that flag something in the system (since we'd both be going through all the same tolls and obviously only one of us is driving the car on the account). I can't imagine why EZ-Pass would care, since they get the money either way, but it's probably not 100% kosher either.

For Illinois, you can temporarily register another license plate, i.e., the rental car's, so that wouldn't be a problem.

the rental company charges $20 per day to add it (which is insane unless you're going to be spending your entire vacation driving back and forth through the Holland Tunnel, which...I guess it takes all kinds to make a world?)

Totally insane, but I'm not saying I wouldn't pay it to avoid the toll lanes.

Or - does EZ pass have a pay online option? For Illinois if you go through the iPass lane w/o a transponder, you have 48 hours or 7 days or something to go online and pay the full toll before they come after you. So you can skip the toll line anyway.

You think kids are going to mock North West for his name, when "sex tape" and "hurry up with my damn croissant" exist?

I think kids will mock her for her name because kids do that. I also think the mockery isn't as big as a deal as people make it out to be--it doesn't have to affect your social life, your school life, or your professional life. Or, rather, your name won't be the only issue...

Unless there are kids who never get teased about anything ever, and that's the life I was cursed to never have? But being teased about my name didn't bother me--my sister was bothered by teasing, but she thinks it's worth it now. Legions of my family got through it, and I don't think any of them opted for a more conventional name in my generation.

So the base "no celebrity" option seems to be less traumatic than people make out. I'd be surprised if celebrity made that in particular worse.

Maybe celebrity children tease each other?

North on its own isn't bad -- Jennifer Crusie named a recent character North. But North + West? I can't.

But North + West? I can't.

At the very least make it her middle name. Even then...really?

I SO totally just want to crawl in bed and nap. So freaking tired.