Nicely Inconspicuous

Sometimes you have to wonder about people.  Other times you just have to throw your hands up in the air and shout "That's it, I give up, we're all doomed!"

Today almost brought on one of those moments.

I was waiting for the Java2 SDK to finish installing on the newly returned wearable, so I decided to take a trip over to one of the Internet's greatest time wasting websites and see what weird events were happening in the world.  There, near the top of the list, was a headline that caught my eye: "Forget John, Mary, Jane or Bob," it said, "Parents are now naming their children after consumer products, networks and diseases."

Well, I just had to click that and, sure enough, it was true. Names like L'Oreal, ESPN (at least two cases), and even Syphilis.  Yes, syphilis.  Someone, somewhere, thought that they'd make their child's life a living Hell by naming them after a well known venereal disease.  This isn't the first time I'd heard of this type of thing happening, someone once mentioned having heard of a girl named after a yeast infection.  But still, Syphilis?  Unnecessary and Nonchalant seem like the best names possible compared to Syphilis.

The article itself is over here, and although I've picked out the worst of them, the ones I didn't mention still make Anathema Device seem like a godsend.

(Bonus points for whoever can pick out the origin of this entry's title.)