Elon
Reeve Musk is an engineer, industrial designer, technology entrepreneur, and
philanthropist. He is a citizen of South
Africa, the United States (where he has lived most of his life and currently
resides), and Canada. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer/designer of
SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product
architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of
Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. As of May 2020, he has a net worth of $39.4
billion and is listed by Forbes as the 23rd-richest person in the world. Elon
Musk is working to revolutionize transportation both on Earth and in space. His automaker, Tesla Inc., which was founded
in 2003, is bringing fully-electric vehicles to the mass market.
Have seen English pace
bowler Bob Willis bowl at Chepauk (he was one hit for 6 fours in an over by
Sandip Patil) …. a search on him would reveal the name as ‘Robert George Dylan
Willis MBE’ – initially could not identify the tall Bob with this long name……
then understood that in England there are some common abbreviations
- Jon (Jonathon), Rob (Robert), Will (William), Mike (Michael),
Dave (David), Tom (Thomas), Doug (Douglas), Chris (Christoper), Alex
(Alexander), Sue (Susan), Chris (Christine), Meg (Meghan), Nance (Nancy) and
some times Cindy (Cynthia), Becky (Rebecca), and some oddity like - Bob
(Robert), Bill (William), Jim (James), Maggie (Margeret) ……………..
Names, Naming and more ….
Mankind’s desire know no limits…. You study to earn and become rich; you aspire
to get married ~ have kids – bring them up – save or keep wealth that would
last for few more generations and in between you keep re-revising your earlier
targets as ambitions [unbridled wishes] keep growing. When a child is born or
much earlier to that, parents start thinking of naming the child. The
Naming ceremony is celebrated on different days in different fashion ~ many
have religious significance. In Hinduism, naming is considered
sacred ~ called Namakaran, it is an elaborate festivity. It is usually
done on the 10th day. In Vaishnava tradition, naming is mostly after the presiding
deity of the famous temples……… thus you have so many Balajis, Srinivasans,
Parthasarathis, Narasimhans, Devarajans and after Acharyars like Ramanuja. Periyazhwaar in his
‘Periyazhwaar Thirumozhi’ (Nankam Pathu – Aaram Thirumozhi) devotes 10
songs on the need to name the children after Sriman Narayanan – those who are named
after Maha Vishnu will be bestowed with all goodness and their parents will not
go to hell is a firm belief. That is for the believer.
Now with people’s
increasing faith in many faith, including Nameology, a particular alphabet is
chosen as considered to be lucky depending on the birth star, the month, and
more. For many, picking the right name for the child is a daunting task.
Some adopt fancy names, which the children might find a tad difficult as they
grow.. some students would claim that names starting with alphabet ‘a’ places
them in some disadvantage as their name would be called first in many forums,
tests by the teachers at school. The common Indian names for Girls are :
Sneha; Aditi; Priyanka; Kavitha; Anjali …. And for boys Raj, Ram, Dhruv,
Rakesh, Aditya …. Now read elsewhere that there are babies named in more
strange fashions including naming after ‘cartoon characters’, famous
sportspersons and more… the hot flick ‘finding nemo’ has inspired some to name
their child ‘Nemo’ ~ some other bizaree male names include : Sailor,
Buzz-Bee, Zed and Blade. Out-of-the-ordinary girls’ names included
Tinkerbell, Buttercup and Bliss.
Elon
Musk and singer Grimes announced the birth of their first child together on
Tuesday, telling fans their son's name is X Æ A-12.The unusual choice immediately had fans
guessing what it might mean, and how to pronounce the series of letters and
numbers. It appears the name may have
also been partially inspired by one of the songs from 32-year-old Grimes', real
name Claire Boucher, 32, last album - 4ÆM. Others noted the Lockheed A-12 was
built for the Central Intelligence Agency.
It was not immediately clear if new dad Musk was having fun with his
followers in announcing the name but others joked it would be 'tough on the
teacher'.
Elon
Musk shared the first pictures of his newborn baby boy with singer Grimes on
Twitter on Tuesday - it's the singer's first child and his sixth son. In
response to a user's Tweet that read: 'We need the name we literally need it,'
Elon replied, 'X Æ A-12 Musk.' It
was not immediately clear if new dad Musk was having fun with his followers
! After announcing the birth of his son,
Musk, 48, also shared pictures of him holding the baby and with a quirky tattoo
filter added to the newborn's face. After
telling fans the baby was called X Æ A-12 Musk one Twitter user suggested: 'X for
SpaceX, AE for After Earth and A-12 for the original SR-71 designation which
was the first reusable vehicle to go to space.' Another
shared links to pages explaining the unusual stream of letters and deduced it
would mean the name is: 'Ash Lockheed Musk. Final Answer.'
The
unusual choice immediately had fans guessing what it might mean, and how to
pronounce the series of letters and numbers.
While some tried to decipher what it means, for many the name was just
too confusing. The tech mogul is father to five sons, Griffin, Xavier, Kai,
Saxon and Damian from his previous marriage. Musk lost his first child Nevada
in 2002 at 10 weeks old as result of SIDS.
Shares of Tesla Inc tumbled more
than 10 per cent on Friday after Musk tweeted that the electric carmaker’s
high-flying stock was overly expensive.
Interesting
!
With
regards – S. Sampathkumar
5.5.2020.
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