i already have a chinese name, but i thought i'd try my american one phonetically: comes out as "are you blowing snot? yes." j's, meanwhile, comes out as "golden 8 ball." the bastard.
J/P: for years i thought escher's hand with globe was an image of someone holding up a football helmet - i knew the image only as a poster on someone's dorm room wall on a different world. and yup, that's what 1/4 of my office looks like.
E: the western-to syllables-to chinese aren't kind to anyone, are they? i'm sure your chinese one is far more graceful - what does it mean?
grandpa wanted to give all of us kids grand, lofty monikers, but mom & dad rejected my original name as too suffocating (i think it was "the standard-bearer of virtue" or something). they named me "leisurely and happy" instead.
my brother, on the other hand, got stuck with grandpa's choice: "the very example of profundity." yikes.
my sister had a chop stamp made with my phonetic name on it, which was something like "beautiful horse on a majestic mountain"...but i've never verified that.
very m.c. escher of you, in a way. so that's what your office looks like?
ReplyDeletei already have a chinese name, but i thought i'd try my american one phonetically: comes out as "are you blowing snot? yes." j's, meanwhile, comes out as "golden 8 ball." the bastard.
ReplyDeletei'd say yours still beats ours anyway.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mylar.
ReplyDeleteJ/P: for years i thought escher's hand with globe was an image of someone holding up a football helmet - i knew the image only as a poster on someone's dorm room wall on a different world. and yup, that's what 1/4 of my office looks like.
ReplyDeleteE: the western-to syllables-to chinese aren't kind to anyone, are they? i'm sure your chinese one is far more graceful - what does it mean?
grandpa wanted to give all of us kids grand, lofty monikers, but mom & dad rejected my original name as too suffocating (i think it was "the standard-bearer of virtue" or something). they named me "leisurely and happy" instead.
ReplyDeletemy brother, on the other hand, got stuck with grandpa's choice: "the very example of profundity." yikes.
me likey the escher-mylar too, by the way!
my sister had a chop stamp made with my phonetic name on it, which was something like "beautiful horse on a majestic mountain"...but i've never verified that.
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