Chris suggested this was a better picture of Teddy.
September 2004 Archives
In Teddy's case, he means "real cool" cats love Christmas, too.
Now I have company at the superfund site -- Teddy, the superfund bear! He watches out over everything day and night. I found him in a pile of household garbage someone had dumped there. I found the chair in another pile of junk, and the hat in yet another. The coffee cup is my own contribution to the mess.
I found out by way of a poster in a window that I missed a chance for an official tour of the site by boat. It was on September 17th. Ugh! I am so sad I missed it! I signed up to recieve more regular information regarding my beloved superfund site.
If only Teddy could talk. The stories he could tell. Actually, it really gives me the creeps to think about him sitting there at, say, 2 am. I'm happy no one has molested him so far, and I don't really want to know what he has to say.
I've gotten a couple of requests from Christian bands looking for names because of my blog entry about "rate my band name," which has a link to a couple of band name generators. It seems like it should be pretty easy to create a Christian band name generator, either electronically or in the same way that you find out your porn name (first pet's name plus the first street you lived on). Unfortunately I don't know enough about Christianity, bands, or Christian bands to recommend a formula, but if anyone reading this does, I'm just saying there is a market for one based on my blog traffic, which is as scientific a study as anything.
UPDATE
Seriously, people are hungry for Christian Band names. If some youth pastor wants to take the time to set up a Christian Band name generator, or even set out some guidelines for faithful and rocking Christians to use, I'd be more than happy to send them that way.
Update
Haven't heard from any pastors or other informed people. In the meantime, my advice to someone looking for a band name would be to go to your best source: The Bible. Check out the names and passages that seem interesting to you. Numbers seem to be kind of popular with some bands. Try adding some numbers.
If you're still stumped, you can try my crude generator above (this is what happens when non-programmer types are forced to try to do things). First, go to Random.com and ask for a series of random numbers -- smallest value = 1, largest value = 11. Then, using the chart above, for the first word, go to the first column and the row that corresponds to your number, then for the second word, go to the next column and find the row that corresponds to that. etc. So, for example, I got a sequence of numbers:
8
3
4
11
Which equals to "Sing Their Blue Meaning" -- which isn't a terrible name for a band, right?
Better yet, you could sit down with your band mates, the Bible, and a computer to make your own Christian Band Name generator using the table I created (or a better one) as your model.
Good luck!
(And fair warning: I'm not Christian myself, so the rest of this blog may not be up your alley.)
