Phew. I almost forgot to renew one of my domain names. I remembered getting an email about it, and I guess I expected them to send me another when it got closer to expiring, but they didn’t. Good thing some little clump of brain cells kicked me in the head while I was sitting on the couch being post-dinner comatose. I had a panic attack for apparently no reason at all, and suddenly remembered my domain was going to expire (or might already have done so). At least my subconscious brain is paying attention to things like deadlines, though it might have reminded me sooner and saved me the near heart failure.
I really need to do something with my other two domains. I mean to do something with them, but I just can’t seem to motivate myself to do it. Whatever “it” is, and that is the problem: I don’t know what I want to do with them. Something arty, that much I know, but that’s pretty vague for a starting point.
Anyway, crisis over and my mostly unused domain name is safe for another year.
You know, I never meant to use justorb.com forever. It was just the first quick and easy name I could come up with when the people that were hosting my old site went crazy, kicked us all out, and pointed our site names at porn sites. Goth porn sites no less. Even worse? Badly done goth porn sites. I was horrified. I don’t think the thought that I was going to be stuck with Just Orb as my domain for the rest of my life ever occurred to me, but the thought of changing it now horrifies me about as much as badly done goth porn. :lol:
“You know, I never meant to use justorb.com forever.”
I’m guessing the name had something to do with Castlewood’s ill-fated product. I found your site while searching for info on an Orb drive I had just come across for next to nothing. Also remember you using one of their blurbs in your header for a short while. Am I close?
Not really, though it was long a running joke because so many people happened across me when looking for info on Orb drives. People had been calling me Orb on line for quite a while (thought my actual screenname had always been Orbizart), and my previous site name included the word “orb” … and I sometimes played around with the Orb vs. Orb drives joke. I’d really wanted to use my previous site’s name as my domain name, but it was totally burned by the goth porn incident, and I just didn’t want to have that following me around forever (which it would have). I did a lot of searching at various search sites to see what the ranking competition would be, and justorb seemed to fit the bill. I’d be relatively easy to find as the major competition were the drives, the band (now defunct, I think), and ghostly orbs in photos. Being in search result line-ups with things like that has brought in a varied and interesting crowd over the years. :lol:
I just sort of wish now, looking back, I had picked something not tied so directly to my screenname … so maybe I could have gone by a different screenname (or my real name) at some point without freaking people out too much. Now, I am pretty much just stuck with it. Even my offline friends call me Orb (or even Just Orb).
I wonder if Cher ever regrets using a one word name to create her fame? Does she ever sit around at home on a late Tuesday night and wish she’d picked something else? :P
Someday I need to sit down and write a post about the genesis of how I came to be Orb. I’d bet most people visiting my web site now don’t even know how it all started.
Has it really been 12 years already? Jeez!
Cher is her name, short for Cherilynn. Last name Sarkisian. She is from L.A. and was a local sensation in the early sixties. I remember when she and Sonny were kicked off a Rose Parade float when the sponsors found out they were hippies, only to be picked up immediately by another entrant with a lot more commercial and social savvy. They packed Colorado Boulevard that year.