May 22 2008
Leftover Chinese by the Same Name
A heads up from a former roommate kind of made my day today. It was about the Wikipedia featured article of the day…which happens to be about a vicious pirate who shares with me a similar name. It’s a common error for people to misspell my name that way and now I can give them a little history lesson whether they want to hear about it or not.
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My adopted flag.
The irony here is that by naming me after British royalty, she actually tagged me with a name that would gave sailors a bit of a scare three hundred years ago. Good job, mom.
An additional wacky coincidence is that my name is also similar to that of the guy who invented kitty litter.

I guess I can’t win ‘em all.
