Introduction

So this is my new weblog.

Of course the first thing my steadily strengthening set of returning readers will want to know is how I chose such an awesome name for this Internet publication. Indubitably the catchiness of “Extra-Strength Schrenk” is astounding and is therefore completely typical of my propensity for being clever, but I must give credit where it is due: I consulted one of those automatic name maker things. This one was a band name generator.

This generator gave me some excellent selections to choose from. Here were the highlights:

• Schrenk Mango (I don’t like the saccharine implications here)
• Loony Schrenk and the Skintight Head (This sounds like a Neo-Nazi band)
• Flushing Schrenk and the Fiction (And this sounds too much like I’m circling the drain)
• Doped Rubber and the Rabbit (I wonder how they come up with the ones that don’t have “Schrenk” in the title? Doped rubber? What’s that, polymer infused with heroin?)
• Schrenk Potent and the Sound (This just doesn’t make any sense)
• Rubber Schrenk and the Fierce Pizza (Though I like the idea of fierce pizza being a part of this blog, but I’m not much for the rubber again)
• Dubious Schrenk (No)
• Elegant Counselor (Sounds like a bad Chinese translation of the Keirsey Temperaments)
• Heart Cheddar (Cholesterol?)
• Schrenk of the Prowling (This is too creepy)
• Extra-Strength Schrenk
• Schrenk of the Air (Indian nickname)
• Leopard of the Schrenk Crocodile (I’m really confused by this one)
• Eloquent Sleet (File this one with “Heart Cheddar”)
• Hallucination of the Flavored Schrenk (Hmm…)

Even though I ended up with “Extra-Strength Schrenk”, don’t be surprised if I rename this blog “Hallucination of the Flavored Schrenk” in about a week. It’s really been growing on me.