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What really caught me off-guard in the I didn't see that coming sort of way was that someone named their Bull "Round Oak Rag Apple Elevation" -- that strikes me
by daveslash 7y ago
What really caught me off-guard in the I didn't see that coming sort of way was that someone named their Bull "Round Oak Rag Apple Elevation" -- that strikes me as an oddly long and specific name. Everything else is, perhaps, bothersome, but not terribly "surprise!".
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- gumby 7y agoCould be a path, e.g. Round Oak > Rag > Apple > Elevation. That would make sense if the earlier sites had themselves been of high value: then the name would itself be a kind advertisement. Or you could think of it as constructing an IPv6 address by embedding the MAC in the low order bits.
- dbcurtis 7y agoI am a little fuzzy on it since it has been a long time since I thought about it, but my father-in-law was a Holstein-Friesian breeder. If I recall correctly the Holstein breed association requires pedigrees to start the farm name. Then you usually include the name of a prominent ancestor in the blood-line, and a name to distinguish the individual. So if you are in the know, you can tell a lot about an animal from the name. My father-in-law used to get hours of joy from poring over semen catalogs. You know those really intense baseball fans that dig through page after page of player statistics, and quote them from memory to anyone who will listen? Translate that to dairy animals, and that was my father-in-law. The catalogs were full of tables of production records of each bull's progeny. He had two semen storage freezers for his speculative acquisitions. (Basically, insulated tanks cooled by liquid nitrogen. The milk hauler carried liquid N so that he could top off the farmers' semen storage as he pumped their milk into the truck.) In the old days, you were paid by the total production with a butter-fat premium for richer milk. Then at some point they reduced the butter-fat premium but added a new premium for protein content. That caused a major reshuffling of the value of many bulls.
- satya71 7y agoSounds like someone invented diceware before its time
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y agoFrom his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RORA_Elevation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RORA_Elevation It seems like Elevation was one of his dad’s names, and Round Oak was part of his mom’s name.
- zik 7y agoBulls have wikipedia pages now? Ok, this is the thing I'm most surprised about out of all of this. Maybe I'm just annoyed that there's a bull who's more famous than me, and that he got that famous by being a lot more reproductively successful than me.
- dboreham 7y agoMy cat had a web page in 1996. So old it isn't in the archive :(
- fortran77 7y agoI'm a little disappointed he has no photo!
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoAnimals for show and stud often have bizarre names. Because I like German Shorthair Pointers, take a look at the names in this list: https://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/breed-results?id=GSP&season=2019 https://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/breed-results?id=GSP&s... Slipstream Kismet Wedding Jitters
- nwellnhof 7y agoI always found this one funny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo
- journalctl 7y agoYou can’t convince me this isn’t someone trying really hard to remember a Diceware passphrase!