As any frequent visitor to Starbucks knows, when you order a fancy drink they typically ask you to give your name so they can summon you to the barista’s counter when your order is ready. Here’s something else frequent Starbucks visitors know: the name you give is rarely the name you receive back.

My friend and fellow news anchor Chris Gailus has a great sense of humor. Even when it involves laughing at himself. On Wednesday night he learned that an exploding bulb in a TV studio light sounds a lot like a gunshot.

What’s in a name? If you’re the long-time leader of Libya, at least 10 distinct ways to spell it. Every time Moammar Gadhafi starts to make the front pages, newspapers around the world engage in what seems to be a game to see how many spellings they can come up with.

Usually I shy away from the I-saw-Jesus-in-my-plate-of-french-fries stories. But I’ve got to admit this one is uncanny. An Orange County couple who describe themselves as “not overly religious” found a picture of Jesus on an old lawn chair while doing some cleaning. Check it out:

A quick reaction blog post after seeing the first night of the IBM Watson vs. Jeopardy Champions challenge on Jeopardy. It was an impressively close contest last night. But every time Alex called “Watson” as the first to buzz in, I wondered if Watson had a buzzer advantage.

Tonight’s the night the IBM computer Watson faces two Jeopardy veterans, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. I worked with both men on GSN’s Grand Slam a few years ago and can assure you that Watson’s got a tough assignment.

There’s efficient and then there’s efficient, Hong Kong-style. My pal sent along this crazy video of a 344-square-foot apartment in Hong Kong. The crazy thing is that the architect managed to squeeze in 24 rooms to the floor plan by putting them on sliding panels and stacking them behind one another. I thought space-starved New Yorkers might find some inspiration in the design, dubbed the “Domestic Transformer.”

Maybe Steve Jobs hasn’t been in a fashion rut for the past ten years. Maybe his default black-shirt-blue-jeans outfit works kind of like shield, protecting him from the insecurities normal people suffer from, like stage fright. Jobs isn’t wearing his usual uniform in this amazing video I just found. It’s of his first TV appearance decades ago. I don’t whether it’s the cameras, his enormous glasses or the brown suit but the usually calm and collected Apple chief looks visibly nervous in the clip.

NY1 producer Tim Hill sparked great excitement in the newsroom this morning when he informed the morning crew that the company had free iPads available. But there were only 6 left, he noted.