What’s in a Name?

This site needed a name change. I know this because I wanted to change the name. I don’t need the name to be recognizable to the masses, as I don’t really expect this site to reach the masses (though they are always welcome here). Rather, I need this site to be interesting to the few folks who read it and find it interesting, and I need it to be interesting to me, since I write it.

The new name is “The People’s Democratic Republic of Hardenistan.” As a political science major, I do have unrealistic aspirations. One of those is global conquest.

The others include things like qualifying for the Boston Marathon and learning to truly like cross-training.

I have already established the PDRH, as I like to call it. It currently includes my apartment, my cubicle (sorry, MDOT), my co-worker Jenn’s cubicle (via annexation), and my parents’ house. It will gradually grow over time, and as I see fit. I reached the name rather easily. My favorite country names have always been those that included something akin to the term “people’s democratic republic”; the nations so named rarely meet any of those criteria. Consider the case of North Korea, just as an example. Its formal name is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. I rest my case. As for the name “Hardenistan,” it’s catchy.

Given that the small (but growing) territory and this site now share a name, maybe I did go for personal branding after all.