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Funeral Pyre
Nov. 13th, 2006 09:50 amThere should be some law against certain name misspellings. Obviously, in my job, I get to write a large number of proper names. And inevitably I get the hand of how you refer to these people, so that Lee Hang Cheong from Hong Kong, for example, becomes Mr Lee. I know that "Sri" isn't a first name as such, that many people from south India never tell you their first two names, just the initials.
But some things annoy me, and one of them is a misspelling of a name that is rather similar to a correct spelling of a name.
This morning I came across a first -- a misspelling of two names. Yes, I came across a "Byran".
This name seenms to indicate a crisis of indecision or compromise among the parents. "Shall we call him Byron or Bryan?" I dunno, let's call him Byran. I felt like putting (sic) after his name when I wrote the story, or, perhaps more appositely "yes, this is what his parents called him". Nearly everyone who reads the story will think that I've mistyped the name.
The same goes with me for "Johnathan". Parents and children are equally to blame here. I mean, surely any self-respecting child would by the age of six realize that anyone who thought Jonathan could reasonably be spelt "Johnathan" should be disowned immediately. Get out there and clean chimneys, sweep the floor at McDonald's, anything, but surely you can't stick by parents who would name you after an illiteracy.
Managed eight hours' sleep last night, very rare for a Sunday/Monday. Maybe I'm ill.
And this morning there is... NO NEWS. Ah well, makes the production of the newsletter easy. I guess the rest of the week will get busier.
Managed to blow $20 in a couple of acts of incompetence at low-stakes NL on Bugsy (is bottom two-pair worth betting $7 into a $18 pot when a rag card comes on the turn and someone behind has called your raise from $1 to $5 on the flop, putting the initial better all-in (who also called)?
I had 97, board was T972. Initial better had A8 for the straight draw, but caller behind had T9 and called my all-in bet.
My mistake was mixing up a short-stack strategy (wait for hands, you will get called) with a big-stack strategy (bet hands like the above, because the threat of a bigger bet on the river will elucidate a fold). My bad. Then again, I've been called with hands like TJ here, and won the pot, whereas with a big stack, the TJ would fold.
Damn! Back to $20 in the Bugsy account! Fortunately, I played some $50 buy-in on Virgin after that (buying in for $25, my standard tactic these days) and doubled-up. Like I say, with a short stack, your good hands get called when you get to all-in on the turn.
But some things annoy me, and one of them is a misspelling of a name that is rather similar to a correct spelling of a name.
This morning I came across a first -- a misspelling of two names. Yes, I came across a "Byran".
This name seenms to indicate a crisis of indecision or compromise among the parents. "Shall we call him Byron or Bryan?" I dunno, let's call him Byran. I felt like putting (sic) after his name when I wrote the story, or, perhaps more appositely "yes, this is what his parents called him". Nearly everyone who reads the story will think that I've mistyped the name.
The same goes with me for "Johnathan". Parents and children are equally to blame here. I mean, surely any self-respecting child would by the age of six realize that anyone who thought Jonathan could reasonably be spelt "Johnathan" should be disowned immediately. Get out there and clean chimneys, sweep the floor at McDonald's, anything, but surely you can't stick by parents who would name you after an illiteracy.
Managed eight hours' sleep last night, very rare for a Sunday/Monday. Maybe I'm ill.
And this morning there is... NO NEWS. Ah well, makes the production of the newsletter easy. I guess the rest of the week will get busier.
Managed to blow $20 in a couple of acts of incompetence at low-stakes NL on Bugsy (is bottom two-pair worth betting $7 into a $18 pot when a rag card comes on the turn and someone behind has called your raise from $1 to $5 on the flop, putting the initial better all-in (who also called)?
I had 97, board was T972. Initial better had A8 for the straight draw, but caller behind had T9 and called my all-in bet.
My mistake was mixing up a short-stack strategy (wait for hands, you will get called) with a big-stack strategy (bet hands like the above, because the threat of a bigger bet on the river will elucidate a fold). My bad. Then again, I've been called with hands like TJ here, and won the pot, whereas with a big stack, the TJ would fold.
Damn! Back to $20 in the Bugsy account! Fortunately, I played some $50 buy-in on Virgin after that (buying in for $25, my standard tactic these days) and doubled-up. Like I say, with a short stack, your good hands get called when you get to all-in on the turn.
