Saturday February 22, 2014  "Ada [Lovelace] and [Charles] Babbage tried to apply their mathematical skills to predicting the outcome of horse races, and Ada died deeply in debt."Julia Cresswell, Naming Your Baby; entry for Ada.

I recommend this book.  Partly for asides such as this one.  Mostly because when there are conflicting explanations of a name's origin, or the standard explanation is dubious, Cresswell says so.  And there's a good bibliography of books and websites.

***From Friday's minnpost.org:

We’re No. 40! And I know why … City Pages' Aaron Rupar writes: "[A] sexual stamina study uses data from Spreadsheets, a mobile app that 'monitors data from user's movement and audio levels through the accelerometer and microphone to provide statistical and visual analysis of their performance in bed,' according to its website. … Anyway, using data from 10,000 users, Spreadsheets broke down the relative stamina of each state, and it turns out Minnesota is home to a bunch of two-pump chumps. Here are the results:
38. Oklahoma — (2:21)
39. Colorado — (2:21)
40. Minnesota — (2:19)
41. Ohio — (2:18)
42. Louisiana — (2:17)
43. Kentucky — (2:14)."
Do they have any idea how exhausted we are from shoveling snow?