Ego-trippin

Okay, so while in Louisville over the break, I ran into some people from my old lab at UL. While talking, I found out that a colleague had named her second child with my name. This was somewhat surprising given that she and her husband are from mainland China. It's hard not to be flattered, since I have a hard time believing that they really knew that many people with my name other than myself. Either they were really impressed with me, really liked the sound of the name (which I guess is more of a compliment to my parents), or they realized that their son was going to grow up in the US and be subject to a short attention span and speak in a series of movie quotes. Maybe it sounds a lot like a Chinese name... I don't care, in my head, it's because they want their child to grow up to be like me (God help us all).