The CEC was undergoing some growing pains today (i.e. upgrades), so for a short while I had 2 gigs of quota space and no CEC student websites were accessible. Since many of the weblogs in my little community (with the exception of sites hosted on -273) live on CEC webspace, and many of you read only these few weblogs, for awhile I was the only game in town. Nature abhors a vacuum but commerce rewards a monopoly, however I was sadly unable to cash in on my temporary popularity and now the other sites are back up. Next time...

Tonight was the NBA draft, and amongst the bevy of foreign players taken in the first round was one with the amusing name of Maybyner "Nene" Hilario. This got me thinking about all the great names of college and pro basketball past. The Maryland Terrapins of the early/mid-90s had a player named Exree (pronounced "X-Ray") Hipp. In Virginia a few years back there was a fella by the name of Majestic Mapps who had one brother named Scientific and another with an equally amusing name. Boubacar Ow, Mamadou N'Dyaie, and Carlos Boozer are amusing also, but all of these pale in comparison to the immortal God Shammgod.

Imagine having the last name "Shammgod". Then imagine naming your child God. What kind of childhood would they lead? What kind of ego must you have to name your kid God? What is it like trying to register the name God? So many questions...