in fulfilling a terrible task that i've been given at work, calling organizations listed in our magazine to check their information (boring in any country, but quite a challenge when your language skills are only so-so), i came across a man by the name of Rutger Boot. First of all, he sounded like he was chinese, so i'm intrigued as to how he came to acquire that name. fyi, he was working at the dutch speaking community, so it's a dutch name. did his dutch teacher give him that name? is that a normal dutch name? there's so much i don't know about the dutch. But this leads me to my second of all, which is that i have decided to give my child (or cat, as the case may be) a dutch name. rutger. how cool is that? it has that sort of official sounding feeling, like when people give their kids last names as first names- madison, brady, etc. i also thought about german as a possible source for names, but i recently met a girl named dagmar, and there is no way i could do that to a living creature i am responsible for.