Call me Ishmael

June 9th, 2004 by

When Nomad came to being two years ago, my first entry discussed names. Briefly. That this blog would have none, except a thousand, a million that I would call it by. It still doesn’t. It’s a blog extraordinare, it’s mine after all and to me it is as such. It’s a million journeys in a single pair of shoes and it’s true, I’ve walked them all and far far more. It’s tiny little taglines that I felt like calling it, petnames if you want and it responded well to them all. But never just a single name, no.

But for ‘blog’.

9 Responses to “Call me Ishmael”

  1. Bushra Says:

    Erm… it always seemed like a golB to me.

  2. anum Says:

    ishmael as in the wheel of time one?

  3. Waleed Says:

    No. Definitely not Ishmael of wheel of time. More like Ishmael from Moby Dick.

    (plus, Robert Jordan really dragged down the entire series after book 6 or 7, I don’t know, I can’t remember, it was just too painful after a whilst)

  4. abez Says:

    Sup, Ishmael :p

  5. akds Says:

    OKay but just to let you know Ishmael from Wheel of Time was wayy cooler than Ishmael from Moby Dick. I loved Wheel of Time. But Robert Jordan has clearly gone senile. He ruined a perfectly good series to make more money. Greed. He dragged it down after book 3.

  6. phathima Says:

    wow and here i was thinking ishmael as in son of abraham and since that isn’t what you were talking about that would explain why your entry made absolutely no [as opposed to a little] sense to me.

  7. chai Says:

    i first visited your site based solely on the name halfpastnomad.

  8. Bushra Says:

    Phathima – me too! And I still don’t know what they’re talking about.

  9. anum Says:

    robert jordans pretty greedy hed rather write 5 books than finish of the series but see he also needs to keep the publishers happy

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