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May. 21st, 2003 02:51 pmSilly item:
This morning as I was packing a lunch, I saw, on a bag of potato chips sitting on the counter, the following phrase: "...made with the finest raw materials." Now, is it just me, or does that make it sounds like the chips were not cooked, but somehow constructed? (Of course, you never know, in today's world!) Food has raw ingredients, not raw materials.
Non-silly item:
I've been thinking about the idea of names in general. It seems that part of the problem I have with finding or choosing a name for myself is that I'm not entirely sure what it's supposed to do. I know already that I want something versatile enough that I can use it in a variety of communities without feeling too silly, but then, if a name was really right, I doubt I would, even if it seemed incongruous to the sorts of names other folks generally had in whatever forum. ( Here is where I stray into what I shall on the spur of the moment call 'name theory'. )
This morning as I was packing a lunch, I saw, on a bag of potato chips sitting on the counter, the following phrase: "...made with the finest raw materials." Now, is it just me, or does that make it sounds like the chips were not cooked, but somehow constructed? (Of course, you never know, in today's world!) Food has raw ingredients, not raw materials.
Non-silly item:
I've been thinking about the idea of names in general. It seems that part of the problem I have with finding or choosing a name for myself is that I'm not entirely sure what it's supposed to do. I know already that I want something versatile enough that I can use it in a variety of communities without feeling too silly, but then, if a name was really right, I doubt I would, even if it seemed incongruous to the sorts of names other folks generally had in whatever forum. ( Here is where I stray into what I shall on the spur of the moment call 'name theory'. )
