Took a little poll (very little, but high quality) from a couple photographer/writer friends I’ve known for many years and whose creative judgement I trust, and they both liked (from the list I sent them), the name “strangeoutput” the most. “Something about ‘strangeoutput’ amuses me.” Troy Paiva writes, and Larrie Thompson says “… Anyway, yeah, strangeoutput… Another vote in favor!”. I tend to agree. “Tend”? No, it’s more than a tendency, it’s a … something stronger than that anyway. A bone of… no, that’s ‘contention’. A boner? I have a boner for it? Nevermind. Like I said – or am about to say – the brain serves up strange output. In any case, it rings true – with what my girlfriend says about me and what the brain does. And it just sounds cool, and let’s face it, in this coollified medium, that’s what counts, eh?

And besides, “Blog Sin Nombre” is already taken – by a few Spanish-speaking bloggers in South America. There’s also a YouTube video by that name – (actually two) by some Spanish-speaking dude yabbering into the camera.

The subtitle of the newly-renamed blog, er “Tagline” (as if this were a movie – maybe it sorta is, with the way it “plays” on a screen, before the viewer’s eyes…), what immediately came to mind was “Missives from the edge”, which goes along with “strangeoutput”, since my tendency to think philosophically, or be interested in the edges of science, be skeptical about society, always reaching for some creative newness in art, photography, writing, inventions, ways of living, etc. … it all goes together. (If it all starts “going together” too much, it’s time to put me in the loony bin).

Now I just gotta be brave and sign up for the domain name, before somebody nabs it …

And if I do at some point, then I have to migrate all the posts, comments, etc. over to the new site. Then do a little trick so that the search engines don’t wipe me out of their listings because of duplicate content – this involves, from what I’ve read, putting a 301 redirect in the .ht … something or other. On the server. At the “root level”. You techfreaks can read about it here.

Yeah, I like it.
“We’re getting some strange output here,” the master technician said, staring at the monitor intently, tapping determinedly at the keyboard …

Indeed.