OT: one Dum Gai

[Jones Beene]

Slow day... waiting for a thermos full of LN to boil off....   For some unknown reason I was taken by the name Yuki Noguchi, who wrote the piece: "Robots for No Man's Land" but which after a brief googling does appear legit - even though I bet he is a sloppy dresser: http://tinyurl.com/4tyer   Anyway, I wanted to share with the Vo-OT reader, a quirky name-phreaking smile, and my name isn't even Smiley (except today)   Maybe the initial suspicion of Yuki was related to the more famous Noguchi (of sculpture and design fame), who had to change his name from Gilmore, since his father (a famous Japanese poet) had left the states before he was born.   But this name does appear to be somewhat the Nip-quivalent of "names that work" ... those names that surface all the time, giving us a smile because they reflect on the real occupation or preoccupation of the namee... and were also made famous in the late Herb Caen's column in the SFChron... i.e. the mechanic named Smith is too obvious but there was a recent paper on nano-technology by a professor named Smalley, or the proverbial Law Firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.   The kanji derivatives would have some interesting insight into the hidden meaning of the name, if I got it right. In Japan, it seems that the universal "essence" that pervades all of the Nature, what new-agers here call "chi", has the name "ki" ... therefore "Yuki" might mean a "transfusion of Ki," not dissimilar to a blood transfusion (yuketsu). "guchi" means entrance, door, mouth... so you get the picture of why this 'coulda-been'  a chosen nom-de-plume for any ultimate-truthseeker (or investigative journalist).   However, in this case, Yuki Noguchi does appear to be a real DC based reporter... not a self-appointed guru like Sun Yung Moon (which is, BTW, almost his given name). And for a further smile (except for the non PC use of the word "oriental"):   http://chinaunique.com/name2.htm   Signed   Dum Gai Smiley