What did you learn today TIL

[IdleBoast]

Over the weekend, I learned how to properly render the surface of a sphere by hand.

[Remington555]

Over the weekend, I learned how to properly render the surface of a sphere by hand.

Is that the same thing as... drawing a circle? 

Remmy

[IdleBoast]

Over the weekend, I learned how to properly render the surface of a sphere by hand.

Is that the same thing as... drawing a circle? 

Remmy

No, it's drawing a circle and then shading it to appear 3d

[MintJulie]

Over the weekend, I learned how to properly render the surface of a sphere by hand.

Is that the same thing as... drawing a circle? 

Remmy

Great question Remmy.  I was wondering also.

No, it's drawing a circle and then shading it to appear 3d

I thought you were speaking of your hobby with metal things from your original post.  That's why I was confused.

Yay for you and your rendering of a sphere!!

[IdleBoast]

Balls!

[IdleBoast]

I learned that a very good friend of mine has a new tattoo; a step-by-step diagrammatic guide to "how to lesbian".

It's on her left bum-cheek.

She showed me...

 

[Katiebee]

How about one to breathe?

[IdleBoast]

How about one to breathe?

Give her a break, with a fairly homophobic upbringing, two kids and a dick of an ex-husband, she's not long figured out who she really is.

[Indian Babe]

Found out there are quite a few songs about girls called Linda.   

https://m.ranker.com/list/the-best-songs-about-lindas/reference

[psiberzerker]

How about one to breathe?

Give her a break, with a fairly homophobic upbringing, two kids and a dick of an ex-husband, she's not long figured out who she really is.

This exchange got Harder to Breathe stuck in my head. 

[Remington555]

Found out there are quite a few songs about girls called Linda.   

https://m.ranker.com/list/the-best-songs-about-lindas/reference

There's at least one more that's not on that list, but I'm not going to create an account there just to add it. 

Remmy

[watcher1]

There are approximately 360,000 babies born per day and 15,000 births per hour worldwide. That is more than twice the number of people who die each day.

[_priapism]

Found out there are quite a few songs about girls called Linda.    

https://m.ranker.com/list/the-best-songs-about-lindas/reference

The trendiest baby name in U.S. history is not what you think

No, it's not Emma, Kylo, Atticus or Olivia. This baby name from 1947 rules them all.

Jan. 5, 2018, 12:29 PM ET / Source: TODAY
By Scott Stump

Atticus and Olivia are having their moment as the top baby names of 2017, with Bear and Zendaya hot on their heels.

Those names will be competing with the likes of Eleanor, Margaret, Jasper and Wyatt for supremacy in 2018.

However, there is one name that reigns supreme when it comes to being the trendiest baby name of all time.

Take a bow, all you Lindas out there.

When biotechnologist David Taylor analyzed names using the Social Security database, he found that Linda enjoyed the longest peak of popularity of any "trendy" name in the country since 1880, followed by Brittany, Debra and Shirley.

He devised a metric that takes into account a name's overall popularity and how steeply it rose and fell. A timeless name like Mary couldn't be considered trendy because it's been popular for so long, while a spike of the name Dineen was just a brief 1960s phenomenon.

Taylor found the peak of Linda as a trendy name lasted from 1938-1969, including an explosion of Lindas in 1947 when 5.48 percent of all girls born in the U.S. were given that name.

That spike came after performer Jack Lawrence had a hit in 1946 with the song "Linda," which was written about 1-year-old Linda Eastman, the daughter of his attorney. She went on to become Linda McCartney, the first wife of Beatles icon Paul McCartney.

Considering that Emma, the top girls name in the Social Security database for 2016, belonged to 1.01 percent of births, it's likely that we'll never see a one-year spike like Linda's again unless Justin Bieber writes a hit song called "Emma."

Some of our most famous Lindas, like "Terminator" actress Linda Hamilton (born in 1956), supermodel Linda Evangelista (1965) and "Exorcist" actress Linda Blair (1959) were born during that peak Linda period.

Only 0.023 percent of female births in 2016, 434 in all, resulted in the name Linda, so it's lost some steam since its heyday.

In Taylor's analysis, Dewey was the only boys name to crack the top 10, and that came at the end of the 19th Century from George Dewey, a hero of the Spanish-American War.

So Linda, have no fear. It's going to take a lot of like-minded parents (and "Star Wars" movies) for the likes of Kylo and other names to ever be the trendiest

[psiberzerker]

That's fascinating.  Really, I had no idea.  I mean, i knew Linda was a popular name, as long as I've been alive.  I dated 2 lindas, back to back, and I shit you not, a Relinda.  "The sequel."  A few years later, but still.  That was the joke.

Linda 2 was Linda Daney.  They called her "Duh Duh"  Because it sounded like "Duh" twice in her name.  Between her, and Relinda, i went out with Desiree, for a change of pace.  (Hey, we were like 19.  That's what it was like when we were 19.)

Did it say anything about Chris?  I know for a fact there was a massive spike of Christophers, Christines, and so forth in my generation, because at one point it seemed like everyone I knew was "Chris" for several years.  Maybe it was localized o the RTP area of NC?  Because that's where I was living, but that was THE unisex name 'round there some time in the 70s when all of them must have been born.

[_priapism]

That's fascinating.  Really, I had no idea.  I mean, i knew Linda was a popular name, as long as I've been alive.  I dated 2 lindas, back to back, and I shit you not, a Relinda.  "The sequel."  A few years later, but still.  That was the joke.

Linda 2 was Linda Daney.  They called her "Duh Duh"  Because it sounded like "Duh" twice in her name.  Between her, and Relinda, i went out with Desiree, for a change of pace.  (Hey, we were like 19.  That's what it was like when we were 19.)

Did it say anything about Chris?  I know for a fact there was a massive spike of Christophers, Christines, and so forth in my generation, because at one point it seemed like everyone I knew was "Chris" for several years.  Maybe it was localized o the RTP area of NC?  Because that's where I was living, but that was THE unisex name 'round there some time in the 70s when all of them must have been born.

The article made a distinction between trendy and popular.  Traditional Judeo Christian names were not included in the analysis, So I assume Robert, Christian, Luke, John, Peter, and Samuel, and similar names aren’t “trendy” because they have been in popular usage for centuries.

[psiberzerker]

The article made a distinction between trendy and popular.  Traditional Judeo Christian names were not included in the analysis, So I assume Robert, Christian, Luke, John, Peter, and Samuel, and similar names aren’t “trendy” because they have been in popular usage for centuries.

Also, Cris, and Chris aren't really the same name, but short for a whole cluster of both male, and female names.  I just noticed a spike, and used to joke about it.  If you yelled "Hey, Chris!" in the halls of Sanderson, circa about 1992, like half the students would stop, and say "Me?" then look around.  No shit, we used to do this all the time.  

(We being me, Butch, Darren, Alex, Jeff, and Chris.  Of course.  Since we had a Chris in the gang, we could say we ment him, and nobody caught on to the joke for years!)

[_priapism]

In the late 90’s, it seemed that every boy was given a name that started with the letter “C.”  My children’s friends include Cabe, Colter, Cole, Conner, Cade, Cameron, Curt, and I’m sure I missed a few. 

[Remington555]

However, there is one name that reigns supreme when it comes to being the trendiest baby name of all time.

Take a bow, all you Lindas out there.

How well I remember. In my seventh grade class, half the girls were named Linda (4) or Debra (3). One of the Debras went by Corky.

There were also 2 Carolyns.

Remmy

[IdleBoast]

It's interesting to look back at what songs were popular around the time they were born.

We know quite a few people in their mid-forties called "Clare" (Gilbert O'Sullivan).

[_priapism]

Following the song “Brandy” by Looking Glass in 1972, the name increased in popularity as a girl's name in the United States. According to data from the Social Security Administration, drawn from "Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States," Brandy was the 353rd most popular name in 1971, 140th in 1972, and, in 1973 (the first full year after the song's popularity), 82nd.