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1. Are you named after anyone? If so, explain.
I think so. I can't remember why. It was a long time ago.

2. Do you have your children's names picked out already? If so, is there any significance?
I have children already. But I haven't had a daughter, and I always wanted to call her Natasha. Some sort of love of Romanov's I suppose. There, that answers question 3 for panda_pitt :)

3. If you were born a member of the opposite sex what would your name have been?
The same, likely, as my original name is Francis

4. If you could rename yourself what name would you pick and why?
Dirk. Because I once got nicknamed "Dirk" after the hero of Raise the Titannic, Major Dirk Pitt. And then I could hang around with argentbear and we'd be a pair of sharp pointy objects.

5.Are there any mispronunciations/typos that people do with your name constantly?
Well, people sometimes think my actual name is Mundens... 

Lazy Linking

So I posted yesterday a link to all the photos from our trip to Agra, which included the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, and Akbar's Tomb, along with a car accident and other exciting stuff.

I was going to write about it, but seraphs_folly has already done that, so for those that haven't already got her on their flist, here's her descriptions of our day, part one, part two.

It seems the more that happens, the less I feel like writing about it.

Blowing up paint!

Remember that Sony Bravia commercial with the coool music and the bouncing balls in San Francisco?

Well, they're trying to do it again in Glasgow! The link takes you to a blog that has a home video of one of the takes. Given how good that looks, I'm gonna be really keen to see the resulting commercial! And it answers one question, they don't do it all digitally!

I found a quote from Josh Freidman's blog* funnier than it probably is :

...I owe Mr. Fox Broadcasting Company one very large Terminator script and was determined to get it done before our very own nuclear apocalypse made the one in the script feel "dated."

(Note to self: Find/Replace: Skynet/Bush Administration)

*(Josh wrote the upcoming Black Dahlia script among other things)