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Explain your LiveJournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.
Mine postdates my senior year of college. I was writing columns for my school paper, and wanted a distinctive title, and when I thought of this it was so good I could taste it. And part of the appeal was that it seemed to express that idea of taste, the joy in hunting down a new idea. As well as the joy of conversation.
The inspiration was P. C. Hodgell's fantasy novel God Stalk which I love, and which also had been ambiguous to me for a time -- was it God Stalk, or Godstalk? Gods talking, a stalk of gods, stalking gods? Actually in the book it's the latter, but I enjoyed the ambiguity anyway.
From freshman year in college I'd been "phoenix", because I like the firebird and resurrection themes. So does a lot of the rest of the Internet, so I've moved on. The icon is still from that -- it's the first image I ever downloaded, via ftp, found via searching 'archie', the old ftp files index, for "phoenix".
(Which reminds me of a friend who some years ago found a still-working gopher service, and said it felt like a ghost town, with little activity, and occasional mention of this "web" thing.)
http://home.sprynet.com/~dbrukman/hodgell-art.html -- the God Stalk cover (Berkeley 1983)
http://mindstalk.net/ -- see the imitation the editor got someone to make for me.
http://mindstalk.net/old/Publ/mindstalk.html -- me talking about the name, back then.
Tags (since lyceum hit shiver already)
unforth
mrs_feltner
dyrecorn
Mine postdates my senior year of college. I was writing columns for my school paper, and wanted a distinctive title, and when I thought of this it was so good I could taste it. And part of the appeal was that it seemed to express that idea of taste, the joy in hunting down a new idea. As well as the joy of conversation.
The inspiration was P. C. Hodgell's fantasy novel God Stalk which I love, and which also had been ambiguous to me for a time -- was it God Stalk, or Godstalk? Gods talking, a stalk of gods, stalking gods? Actually in the book it's the latter, but I enjoyed the ambiguity anyway.
From freshman year in college I'd been "phoenix", because I like the firebird and resurrection themes. So does a lot of the rest of the Internet, so I've moved on. The icon is still from that -- it's the first image I ever downloaded, via ftp, found via searching 'archie', the old ftp files index, for "phoenix".
(Which reminds me of a friend who some years ago found a still-working gopher service, and said it felt like a ghost town, with little activity, and occasional mention of this "web" thing.)
http://home.sprynet.com/~dbrukman/hodgell-art.html -- the God Stalk cover (Berkeley 1983)
http://mindstalk.net/ -- see the imitation the editor got someone to make for me.
http://mindstalk.net/old/Publ/mindstalk.html -- me talking about the name, back then.
Tags (since lyceum hit shiver already)
unforth
mrs_feltner
dyrecorn