Ambient Issue name story

This is how I came up with the site name Ambient Issue.

From the start I knew I wanted to have a web site devoted to this and initially I wanted RainWave.com but it was already in use.

I then made up a list of criteria on what I was really trying to do with the project and the site. I quickly came to the conclusion that the word 'ambient' should be in the name since that was the main thing I was trying to promote.

I made a quick list of candidates:

AmbientSeed
AmbientFarm
AmbientVine
AmbientAlloy
etc.

The list was long. I then started to review some of my criteria:

I didn't want it to have a New Age or Techno feel to the name.
I wanted the name to have some meaning to what the project was about.
I wanted the name and site to be bigger and be able to go beyond the initial RainWave project.
I wanted it to be easy to remember and easy to spell.

I was really hung up on AmbientSeed for a long time since it was pretty descriptive. Enter the thesaurus. I looked at all kinds of spin-offs - AmbientGerm, AmbientUnion, AmbientStrain. When I hit upon Issue. I liked many meanings and inferences it offered.

An issue is an offspring, an issue describes the release of a magazine or subscription, etc. Dictionary.com had a lot of definitions that I liked - the word covered a lot of ground and ran the spectrum from:

The act or an instance of flowing, passing, or giving out
Something proceeding from a specified source: suspicions that were the issue of a deranged mind.
A place of egress; an outlet
That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time
Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
A discharge, as of blood or pus.
In controversy; disputed; opposing or contesting; hence, at variance; disagreeing; inconsistent.

What I a handy and versatile word I thought! I did a check and found that ambientissue was available and it was my new front runner.

Then I took a look at it on the screen and I found that my tendency was to read it as Ambien Tissue and I started to have misgivings, thinking of flimsy tissue paper. I tried it out on a friend and his take was a little different, he could see the tissue part as well but he interpreted it as flesh and cells so that was good enough for me.

So there you have it, a little bit of trivia. ~ DanD