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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

What's in a name?

We're sure people are curious (or at least we hope so) about the origins of the title of our little blog. We'll give a little history here:

We wanted to make a blog. So, we took the initiative, hopped onto Blogger, and got started! Then, we hit a wall. We didn't have a name, couldn't think of anything good, and didn't want to settle for "<Blog name here>." For a while, we couldn't figure out a name at all.It halted blog production for months! We racked our brains for ideas but everything we came up with just didn't cut the mustard.

The name we were finally going to go with was "Blog of the BeRo." We were both mostly content with it. After months of no action, we were excited to finally get underway. We were in the process of creating an account, and had to come up with a username (not title yet) so we tried "BeRo." It was taken. (who the heck would use that? Come on.) We tried to think up another option, though we were still planning on using Bero for the blog title. We tried "benrob." Taken!
Finally, we settled on a good solid name that we were both happy with.

BulfenRoben
[bul-fen-rob-in]
—noun
1. A computer glitch. I.e., the disappearance of the Task Bar (applies only to Windows PCs).
2. A choice name for a newly christened blog.
3. A combination of letters that can be created by first having the letters "benrob" in a text input box on a website (eg. Google, Gmail, Blogger, etc.), and then adding random letters via accidentally hitting keys on an attached keyboard. The odds of such an event happening are immeasurably miniscule.
Bero Unabridged Imagined Dictionary. Copyright 2010.
(Christopher Jensen is a beast.)