I was thinking of something bouncy to reference our origins. I’ve already suggested reBound, but maybe something like Sprung, or TiggerWarning.
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Psshh. Amateur.
Is it wrong that it sounds so right?
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Why not both?
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I thought it was “all y’alls”
as in “all y’alls’ pajamarallas are ralled in balls.”
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- MainSpring
- ReWind
- Clockwork
- BangBang, KissKiss
- BounceHouse
- Bounce Haus
- Bönce Haus
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If this enterprise really does take off, origins will eventually become sedimentary knowledge. I feel that the name should suggest where we’re going. To that end, I suggest The Herded Cats.
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I like that as a theme, if not a name. I really do. A lot of pieces working together.
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Look, I don’t really want to be actively involved because I’ll be job-hunting very soon. However, I’d like to see this get off the ground and I’m willing to commit a monthly stipend to this end ($10 per month?) to be paid every six months until I’m fully employed, in which I’m willing to kick in more. @waetherman or @Donald_Petersen, please PM me and give me info when and where to send $.
Hope this helps with further planning.
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No, no… Tigger warning… ya know, they’re bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy…
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That’s super cool!
Don’t take that money, @waetherman/@Donald_Petersen! I’ll cover
I’m down for $2K. It might help to take take money out of the equation so we can get on with the fun stuff. 
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I can already tell it’s going provide more entertainment value than a new big-screen TV. 
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Well, you can never have too much of the kind of money that you can blow through and not worry that you have to return any of it or produce something epic (although I know it will be epic!).
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True, but it’s more a matter of ratios and I’m in a good stretch after a bout of unemployment, so I’m super sympathetic
I canceled a couple of Patreons and felt sooo guilty about that!
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You-all can chatter hep patter!
I know you won’t be blabbing any drab gab. 
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I’m glad you and I (and very likely others) are on the same page with this: we wanna see it happen, we don’t wanna see it crap out due to something as straightforward as $, and we’re in a position to float it for a while. I suggest we decide on a platform, pay to secure hosting for, say, a year’s time, and then get somebody graphical-minded to work on the page design, and everyone else cracking on the content. And of course we can tweak as we go, once things start getting posted and read.
But I think it’s important to avoid making this a high-dollar enterprise. The following paragraph is one of Donald’s patented long-winded illustrative anecdotes, so feel free to skip forward to the next one, which will be more substantive.
When Cajon Speedway was still a junior-league NASCAR-sanctioned track in the suburban east of San Diego County, they had several classes of races, including Sportsman, Street Stock, Pony Stock, and the Bomber class. The track was a relatively small 3/8-mile paved oval, so the cars couldn’t go all that fast, but you could still spend a whole lotta money on owning and racing a car there, especially in the Sportsman class. The Bomber class was specifically designed to remain an entry-level racing class that blue-collar enthusiasts could race in without breaking their piggy banks. The cars were all domestic V8-powered sedans, typically from the 60s and 70s, with rear-wheel drive, and a minimum 111-inch wheelbase, IIRC. The goal was to allow someone to race an old Monte Carlo, or Ford LTD, or Dodge Diplomat, which back then could be had on the cheap. And the engines all had a maximum displacement of 360 cubic inches, and were all $800 claimer engines, which meant that after the race, any other driver could claim your engine for $800, and you were required to sell it to them for $800. This discouraged people from investing a lot of money on expensive internal improvements to the engines, like exotic camshafts and aluminum pistons, because if you won the race with a $5,000 engine (first prize being something like $75 or so) and then had to sell that $5,000 engine to some redneck for $800 who would be apt to install that engine in his work truck rather than his race car, you’d feel like a chump. Anyway, that’s how they kept the class competitive for guys without a lot of scratch.
And that strikes me as a good goal for our blog: take the money out of the equation for the majority of posters. We shouldn’t worry about operating costs (except for those of us perverts who actually enjoy that kind of thing), and we shouldn’t worry about profitability at all, either. This blog is our racetrack, built for us to go round and round with each other whether we attract an audience or not. It should be fun, above all else. It also needs to be safe, yes, and legal, certainly, and optimistic, probably, and progressive, who knows. As far as an editorial direction goes, hell, I dunno… mostly I’ve been envisioning it as what might result if we mostly-regular BBSers were handed the keys to the Boing. Whatever floats our boats, y’know. I have no strong opinions about that aspect of it.
Well, personally I kinda hate it as a title. I mean, the meaning of it is coming from the right place, but the words themselves are, to me, about as evocative as “Logistical Dynamics” on the side of a moving van.
And it sounds so… Soviet. 
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To me this reads as “headquartered in the US.” There’s a lot wrong with this fair land of mine, but at least we are immune from the worst of UK libel law.
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Why not Panama?
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