What's a snowstone?
When I created this weblog, I was looking for a name that was easy to remember and was not yet in use. The word 'stone' attracted me for its connotations of calmness and simplicity, and combined with 'snow' it made me think of Zen and haiku.
But do other people feel the same way? In order to find out, I searched for the word 'snowstone' in Google. I found out that the term snowstone can be roughly categorized as follows:
- Nicknames
- Over at Geocities, a woman named Cory Vitello presents her collection of Cabbage Patch Kids under the name 'snowstone';
- Someone in China has snowstone@peoplemail.com.cn as his or her email address. The word 'snowstone' pops up and several more Chinese pages.
- Fantasy concepts, materials or characters:
- A fanfiction enthusiast called "StarryTamara" introduces "the Snowstone" as an object in one of her own spinoffs of the animation series, 'Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders';
- Original fantasy fiction in Chapter 7 of "Jason and the Kodikats", "a fantasy for children. It is the story of a young boy from Seattle, who is living with his parents and his skate board in Anchorage[, who] finds himself in the realm of the Kodikats. They are the little people who live in Alaska." "Snowstone" is a material used in the construction of houses;
- A character called Queen Vivienne in a log of an online RPG is described as wearing a 'snowstone silver ring'.
- More fantasy references as Snowstone is a character in fiction produced by a writing group called DI'Quinasev;
- Someone called Polina Hristova wrote fan fiction based on the Nintendo 64 game called "StarFox" and/or a book by Orson Scott Card called "Ender's Game". The character SnowStone, however, is all Polina's.
- Someone called J.M. Scott wrote a book called "Snowstone", 'a tale of adventure in Greenland;
- Snowstone as the name of a material, product or object
- A designer of lamps called Dave LaMure jr made a small lamp with a cracked base and called it 'snowstone';
- The snowstone ranch sells miniature horses;
- A carpet seller at New Millennium Carpets identifies one of his rugs as 'snowstone';
- An German internet company talks about making a site called Snowstone for mountain biking enthusiasts.
- A site dealing with oceanography refers to a certain stone (sucrosis dolostone) informally as "snowstone";
- On a Canadian newsgroup, a student of mathematics refers to his "hotrod 486/66 sandbox" as Snowstone;
- Word coinage: A cowgirl from Wyoming called Cris Paravicini refers to a hard layer of snow in her diary as 'a "snowstone" drift'.
- Animation: someone made a nice Flash animation of an Oriental watercolor scroll.