What’s Jaouen Jonesing For?

If you know me, then you know that I (like Stephen Colbert) like one thing more than anything else in the world, me. I don’t like being overshadowed by anything. Having to type Jaouen.tumblr.com instead of just Jaouen.com has infuriated me from the beginning of this blog. It makes it sound like tumblr is the subject of the blog, instead of that handsome devil, Jaouen. In an attempt to rectify the situation, I have purchased a domain name for the blog, and I will be migrating to a new server under a new name over the next few days. Finding a perfect domain name, that is clever, yet still satisfies my basic love of me, was a difficult task. At first I went simple, Jaouen.com. No Dice; it was taken. I next tried something a little more religious, WhatWouldJaouenDo.com…taken. Plus, the inability of the internet to handle “?” in a domain name was a genuine disappointment. From there I tried JaouensWorld.com, but it sounded pretentious; like something Ike would make. Switchskier.jaouen.com was my next attempt, but switchskier sounds like a move performed by two men in the comfort of a hotel room”apres skiing”. OrangeFootJaouen.com was another option. My feet may be disgusting, but they aren’t orange. AirekPubliusJaouen.com was unpronounceable. Plus I have too much disrespect for dead languages to use something that sounds like Latin. Whitehouse.com sounded great, but it turns out it already exists (and I certainly hope that those pictures aren’t of the First Lady). Another domain that I tried was JaouenIsAwesome.com…taken. I tried all of the different iterations of those words, IsJaouenAwesome.com, which sounded too introspective, and JaouenAwesomeIs.com, which sounds like a library entry. In the end I had to settle on something simple. It isn’t a flashy name, but it does satisfy my main requirement, it contains the word Jaouen. This evening Danny and I will begin the migration process from Jaouen.tumblr.com to TheJaouen.com. The site’s address may be changing, but the premise will remain, What’s Jaouen Jonesing For?

Update:  We have moved!  The old posts were ported over to the new site with a lengthy process involving quite a bit of work by hand.  A few posts were left behind, because they sucked.  They are not gone though, the tumblr site isn’t going anywhere.  You may occasionally find xml code for special characters if you look through old posts.  I have tried to elimenate it all, but it is all over the place.  There are also problems with double spaces being turned into single spaces after periods in the old posts.  The new site may change significantly over the next few days as we experiment with new themes.  Please bare with me as we transition into the new site.  Cheers -Jaouen