Yes, it's Tommy Overstreet! I was asking if this situation was normal too! I wondered how common it is to be named for something like a song or something else pop-culture showbiz related.
I won't lie, I used Google Image Search to find out it was him. Did you know you can search Google using an image now? It's very cool.
I think it's normal that your parents chose to name you after a song that presumably had some meaning to them, because parents tend to like giving meaningful names and deriving that name from a song is less likely to get your kid bullied than if you were to be a maverick and name them something weird. The fact that you yourself grew up not to like the song is probably normal enough too :P
Cool and scary at the same time. I had a long discussion yesterday with a fellow tech-head about our personal interests (robotics, image/facial recognition algorithms) and what started off as a joke (i.e. programming a flying drone to harass an individual at a party by recognising their face and never leaving them alone) turned into something more serious. The bottom line is that we always end up thinking about military applications, which then become crime-fighting and security applications, which then become criminal applications.
Paranoia aside, the technology now exists to build a flying machine which identifies an individual and tranquillises them (or executes them). Is there any purpose in anyone building something like this? I seem to remember a rather large-scale hunt for men like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. You could argue it was in the public interest to catch these men (depend upon which country's public you are). But if this technology became publicly available? Do we want a situation where murder can be committed in absentia by a device with no DNA, no fingerprints and which can soar out of human reach, or ditch itself somewhere hard to find (i.e. out at sea).
Yeah! I used to use Tineye for image searches long ago. I hadn't had the need to use it for a while until just recently actually and I saw google had this feature now.
I finally got to hear the song for the first time today. I was expecting something different. I don't know what exactly-maybe something more upbeat? I was weirded out when I heard the song.
Is it normal my parents named me after a terrible song?
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I won't lie, I used Google Image Search to find out it was him. Did you know you can search Google using an image now? It's very cool.
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Cool and scary at the same time. I had a long discussion yesterday with a fellow tech-head about our personal interests (robotics, image/facial recognition algorithms) and what started off as a joke (i.e. programming a flying drone to harass an individual at a party by recognising their face and never leaving them alone) turned into something more serious. The bottom line is that we always end up thinking about military applications, which then become crime-fighting and security applications, which then become criminal applications.
Paranoia aside, the technology now exists to build a flying machine which identifies an individual and tranquillises them (or executes them). Is there any purpose in anyone building something like this? I seem to remember a rather large-scale hunt for men like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. You could argue it was in the public interest to catch these men (depend upon which country's public you are). But if this technology became publicly available? Do we want a situation where murder can be committed in absentia by a device with no DNA, no fingerprints and which can soar out of human reach, or ditch itself somewhere hard to find (i.e. out at sea).
Scary stuff.
Yeah! I used to use Tineye for image searches long ago. I hadn't had the need to use it for a while until just recently actually and I saw google had this feature now.
I finally got to hear the song for the first time today. I was expecting something different. I don't know what exactly-maybe something more upbeat? I was weirded out when I heard the song.