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I had no idea! Of course, Ansell isn't the same as Ansel, but people might snicker if my little buddy ever goes on a trip to Australia.

On the other hand, I read this:
[R]egarding the name "Ansel," which ranks very high among boys names in average education level of parents (Dov is #1), if you are going to name your kid after a celebrity in the ( Read more... )

I've learned something this week. I've learned that love is an inexhaustible commodity. I love my wife much more than before Ansel's birth and I love Ansel more than I ever thought I could. Inexhaustible, and free to boot, love is. There's no downside to love!

I found that ANSEL is: American National Standard Extended Latin, an ANSI character set that supports diacritical marks for Latin-based foreign languages. It uses the additional 128 values provided by the eighth bit of the byte to store the diacritic for that character. ANSEL is also known as the American Library Association character set. GEDCOM ( Read more... )

Boy!

Ansel Godfrey Marinus de Jong

was born on the sixth of September, 2007. Ansel is a little Dutch peanut: 20" and 6 lbs 9 oz. He looks amazingly like his father, which is a little disturbing on its own, but what's even more alarming is that he also acts like his father. Case in point: Julie's labor developed from nothing to fully dilated in ( Read more... )