I'm back? Why yes, I am! What drew me back to blogger, after an absence of over a year? Thoughts, people, thoughts -- I thought, therefore I was.

Let's start with names for things. I like naming things, because I think most things have boring names.

Please note -- for it is an important factor -- that simply mis-spelling a thing does not constitute a witty or interesting name. That abomination (first perpetrated in the 70s by easily-amused hippies) has far outlived its usefulness. So no (not so clever) k-instead-of-c or superfluous eee's or ooo's, please.

For Bands

• Deva Ju
• The Same
• The Mighty
• Unknown Quantity
• To Be Announced
• Solve for X
  

For Nightclubs

• The Stake
• Precinct 7
  
• The Sandbox
• The Water Cooler

For Movies

• Light
• Open Door
• Hand over Fist
• The Last Movie

For Software

• Compute X
• Big Thinker
• Thing Processor
• Stuff Doer Deluxe

For Consumer Products

• Don't Stink (a deodorant or air freshener)
• Geekatron 1.0 (a PDA or other digital device)
• Shuttlebus (an electric or hybrid van)

For Design Firms

• Smartfuit Design
• Limelight Productions
• Virtual Light (Yes, this is also a Gibson book, I know)
• Biblical Proportions (special effects firm)
• ThoughtBubble (web design)
• Pen to Paper (copywriters)