Fun with Danish names

Here’s a map of Denmark showing how many with that name lives in each postal area code – the redder, the more:

…and the same map with my wife’s family name (yes, we kept our individual family names when we were married – long story):

My family name is a tad more common than hers ;)

Navnekort – if you’re Danish and want to have a go :) I got the link from Blogbogstaver…

Why 42?

It appears to be 30 years ago that Douglas Adams launched the answer that has been famous for such a long time: 42.

Of all the theories, thoughts and potential answers as to why this was to be the chosen one, I think I like this one the best (lifted from the comments to the bbc.co.uk page above):

42. Is the answer to the question "What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9". Once you come to accept that everything is based on a simple error, all the bigger
errors are so much easier to live with. Brendan Johnson, Kenilworth, Warks, UK

True. Very much so, I think.

The strength of associations

We were looking at some very boring, regular, system-oriented business categories in our IT systems and came upon the product group “Elderberry”.

Within 15 seconds, three people in an office were shouting at each other: “Your Father was a hamster and your Mother smelled of elderberry!” and from there deteriorating into “I fart in your general direction!”