Tryptophantastic

In one of my less bright moments, I went with a url that’s obviously a little beyond mainstream. To ease it for some of you (hi, Mom! ) I’ve forwarded http://heidihoopes.com here as well, though I’m thinking I should park it instead.

Tryptophantastic.com is the bright idea of splorp.com’s Available Domain Name of the Week, and I couldn’t resist it, if only because it allows me such taglines as “From the biggest turkey of them all,” “Full of acidic vitriole,” my favorite, “Putting people to sleep since 1996,” and other such arcane stupid jokes.

In exchange, I offer the world my high-class list of the domain names I created and pondered:

• http://shelfmademan.com (my favorite, but hard to spell/interpret)
• http://hotkumquat.com (I didn’t think it sounded porny, do you?)
• http://fatui.com (from Ignes Fatui, something deluding or misleading, more gratuitious self-deprecation)
• http://aftercrosses.com (“after crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser”–Ben Franklin, something that always seems apropos to my life, one of my sister’s favorite domain ideas)
• http://diefasting.com (“he that lives upon hope will die fasting,” I must be turning Goth)
• http://eyevocative.com (I liked it, but no one else did.)
• http://bestintensions.com (If I told you this orally, where would you go? Homophones are confusing.)
• http://parallaxblast.com (from the ether in my mind)
• http://idieh.org (some other Heidi took the .com: I’ve liked my backwards spelling since I was a kid!)

Overcome with the horrible malady of strengthening priorities, I suddenly decided that there’s more to life than a good design and beautiful css. I still feel sick when I see examples of outstanding web design, but all I want is to be able to occasionally record items of note, and this suits that purpose. All I ask of you is to encourage that endeavor by commenting when so moved upon by what you read, as posting strengthens not only the content, but my feeling that I am writing to an audience who is listening.

If you have any comments about this “design,” please be specific–and I already know about most of the problems, especially if they relate to audioscrobbler or delicious. I know the design is not a far stretch from the standard WordPress installation. The colors are my nod to the idea that dark backgrounds are easier on the eyes, and patronisation of my bud Johnny (patronisation? hmm, what I meant to say…). Thanks to him and Matt for enduring my whining.

And if you want to indulge one of my current priorities, you can follow my searching for content suitable for enriching Katya’s days at delicious. I’ve just begun that grouping, but soon I hope it’ll be a collection of resources I’ve found that are suitable for pre-pre-K enlightenment.

All kids age 1 must have completed #2 earlier in the day before entering the bath.

Let’s just say Emma consistently has issues with warm water.